TX4T 2010
35000 QSOs between Hurricane and Tsunami !
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QSL-manager at work
Posted on April 2nd, 2010Within three days of receiving the main delivery of the newly printed TX4T QSLs from Gennady UX5UO (and within five weeks of the end of the TX4T DX-pedition) reply cards have been mailed (in over 1,200 letters) to ALL those who have requested a Direct QSL. From now on any further Direct QSL requests for TX4T cards will be processed daily.
Meanwhile TX4T Bureau QSLs which have been requested by E-mail, will be mailed directly to the respective QSL Bureaux worldwide during the first week of April.
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TX4T QSLs on the way
Posted on March 26th, 2010
The first batch of TX4T QSL arrived from Ukraine yesterday. It’s a small one (1kg), two larger (15kg each) are still on the road to G3TXF.
Nigel has been able to answer all direct QSLs from DL, EA, F, G, HA, HB, I, OE, OH, OK, OM and S5. Others will have to wait for the other cards to arrive from UX5UO.
14100 QSOs are already confirmed on LotW, that’s a 40% rate !
Up to now, Nigel received direct cards for 4600 QSOs.
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QSO statistics
Posted on March 10th, 2010All the QSO numbers in the following tables include the 2,596 duplicate QSOs. About 1,300 of these dupes in the overall log, were made in the ARRL DX CW Contest.
Operating Time
First QSO 2010-02-08 05:31:07 Last QSO 2010-02-25 19:29:18 Number of QSOs
Total QSOs 34814 Unique calls 11184 Band/Mode breakdown
Band PH CW RTTY Total 160 57 2144 0 2201 80 772 2879 0 3651 40 979 3377 198 4554 30 0 3850 160 4010 20 1040 3272 252 4564 17 1227 3074 183 4484 15 1747 3650 487 5884 12 797 2113 122 3032 10 1146 1288 0 2434 Totals 7765 25647 1402 34814 DXCC by Band/Mode breakdown
Band PH CW RTTY Total 160 6 53 0 53 80 34 66 0 68 40 55 80 25 86 30 0 94 23 94 20 54 72 26 79 17 53 67 10 74 15 51 62 24 74 12 24 58 8 60 10 31 32 0 42 Totals 87 115 51 127 Daily QSOs
Date Total 25/02/10 896 24/02/10 974 23/02/10 464 22/02/10 607 21/02/10 2224 20/02/10 2366 19/02/10 706 18/02/10 1179 17/02/10 2257 16/02/10 2539 15/02/10 2796 14/02/10 2334 13/02/10 3145 12/02/10 3602 11/02/10 3768 10/02/10 2779 09/02/10 1835 08/02/10 343 Totals 34814 Multiband QSOs
Band Total 9 284 8 244 7 282 6 393 5 512 4 818 3 1173 2 2016 1 5462 Totals 11184 Breakdown by Continent
Continent Total North America 21996 Asia 6578 Europe 5144 South America 463 Oceania 404 Africa 229 Totals 34814 We announced that this expedition to French Polynesia, CQ Zone 32, would have a strong emphasis on the low-bands (160 and 80 m). Just to give you, especially to our European buddies, an idea of how each and every low-band QSO is a “real DX”, even with our “neighbours” in the USA and Japan, the following table gives you the distances from FO to some main ham populated places. This is to be compared with distances within the “extended Europe”.
All distances were computed between grid locators, as per F6BEE’s 2009 Stew Perry Top-Band Distance Contest log.
From TX4T (BH52) to in km San Francisco 6800 Montreal 10350 Denver 7900 Florida 8800 France 15800 Germany 16100 Spain 15800 Slovenia 16600 Finland 15200 Belgium 15500 Osaka 9700 Martinique 10300 VK6 Perth 9400 London 15300 ZL Auckland 4600 From France (JN08) to in km San Francisco 8900 Montreal 5400 Denver 7800 Florida 7500 France 100 Germany 700 Spain 1300 Moscow 2500 Finland 2000 Belgium 300 Osaka 9800 Martinique 6700 VK6 Perth 14500 London 350 ZL Auckland 19000 Yes, the USA West Coast is “only” 7,000 km from us and Japan is 10,000 km west of FO !
Of the 2,200 QSOs we made on Top-band, 2,190 were certainly with a distance greater than 3,000 km.
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TX4T news 9
Posted on March 1st, 2010TX4T is now history, all the team members are back home.
Jacques and Gilles left Tahiti hastily, their plane to LAX was advanced by 1h20 due to the tsunami alert in Pacific.
They left each other in LAX, Gilles going back to Canada, and Jacques to France.
All QSOs should be on LotW soon. Nigel is working on the QSL-card design.
73 !
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Nigel’s photo page
Posted on February 27th, 2010Nigel has just added a TX4T page to his website, with many photos (and captions):
http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/TX4T/TX4T.html
Good visit !
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TX4T news 8
Posted on February 25th, 2010Hi all / Ia orana ! Thank you for calling us. We have now more than 32000 QSOs in the logs, including 4520 in the ARRL DX CW contest and some 330 in the WPX RTTY. We cannot update the online logs as often as we want as the wi-fi internet access from our sea side “pension” is getting rarer and more random thant ever. Sorry about this.
In the past 2 evenings (monday and tuesday morning UTC / Eu time) we had some thunderstorms in the neighbourhood and so the low bands came a bit noisy but we still worked some europeans on 160m. The North-East (USA + Europe) beverage works very well, except when one ground connection is getting lose after strong winds. For the last 2 or 3 days of our operation, the QSO count will certainly go a bit down as Gilles is the only operator on duty at the station as I’m touring Tahiti and twin Moorea islands with my XYL that has been patiently waiting during our operation. But there will be again 2 stations on the air for the last night and low band window with Europe.
The last QSOs should be on thursday around 2000 UTC an then we will start tearing down all 7 antennas (including 2 beverages) and pack all for the rerturn trip first to Papeete and then to France and Canada. We will alaos have to rince with fresh water all antenna stuff and even the K3s and linear as corrosion his fast and severe so close to the ocean.
I hope you appreciated that Nigel already posted on LoTW the first 25000 QSOs made before he left us. logs broblems will be fixed next week when I will be back home (and also back to work on Monday morning !)
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