[SFDXA] TX3X – Chesterfield Island DXpedition 2015 - From DX-World

[Bill]

    TX3X – Chesterfield Island DXpedition 2015
    <http://www.dx-world.net/tx3x-chesterfield-island-dxpedition-2015/>
    Saturday Oct 03, 2015

*tags:* Chesterfield Island 
<http://www.dx-world.net/tag/chesterfield-island/>, OC-176 
<http://www.dx-world.net/tag/oc-176/>

*UPDATE  – *Good morning from Chesterfield Island,

http://www.dx-world.net/tx3x-chesterfield-island-dxpedition-2015/

We experienced extremely strong winds overnight and this morning, with 
heavy rain this morning. This caused us to lose some time in setting up 
additional antennas, all the stations are setup waiting for antennas. 
The team is installing the SteppIR beams and will work on the Low Band 
antennas next.

Those of us that stayed on the island last night had a long sleepless 
night. The bands were in good conditions to EU and NA, 20 meters had 
many good openings.

We will continue with tent and antenna maintenance. The sand depth is 
about 1 meter and doesn’t hold the tent and antenna guy stakes well; 
we’re using 25 kg sand bags to augment the typical guying and staking 
arrangements.  We have an unlimited supply of sand on the island.

The team is in good spirits and is eager to make additional progress 
today. As you would expect, the temperature is very hot, but the 
humidity level is comfortable. However, due to the conditions we are 
behind schedule.

The crew of Evohe has been wonderful to work with, they’ve done a lot of 
the heavy lifting and will return to the island later today to assist 
with additional setup later this morning.

Team Chesterfield 2015