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Steve says the TX5C DXpedition expects to be QRV very soon. Perhaps very
close to 2000Z today! Temperatures have been extremely hot and they did
have some heavy rain. Yesterday around noon it was over 110 F degrees at
the SSB Camp and around 117 F degrees at the CW Camp. All the team members
have felt the effects and have kept N6HC, Arnie, the team's medical officer,
very busy. Everyone is OK, although N6OX, Bob, did sprain his ankle. The
team is targeting to be on the air around local noon (2000Z) today. They
are also going to attempt to have a Web cam up and running at the SSB camp.

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Six members of SSRA, Southwest Scania Radioamateurs (namely
Ronnie/SM7DKF, Goran/SM7DLK, Mats/SM7DXQ, Christer/SM7KJH,
Tore/SM7MPM and Michael/SM7TGA) will be active as 6V7I from Senegal
on 6-12 April. They will operate from the QTH of 6W7RV and activity
is planned on 10-160 metres SSB and CW with two stations equipped
with one amplifier, monoband yagis for 10, 15 and 20 metres and a
Titanex vertical for the other bands. QSL via SM7DXQ.

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Slavo, SP2JMB reports he will operate mostly CW as 3B9/SP2JMB from
Rodrigues (AF-017) on 1-8 April and 3B8/SP2JMB from Mauritius
(AF-049) on 9-24 April.

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Turns out it was very much yesterday today than it was the day before. The clouds that were present at dawn disappeared by 7am allowing for the full force of the south pacific sun to express itself. By 10:30am, it was 110 degrees at our base camp and hotter at the CW station. The heat has compounded our work load and Arnie, N6HC had his hands full dealing with sunburns and mandatory work and water breaks every 30 minutes to ensure each team member's safety. By 1pm the heat was so intense our work pace drew to a crawl. With safety being our main concern, we cut back our work loads until it was bearable later in the day to resume. By mid afternoon, some cloud appeared and we were able to continue erecting our antennas and complete our operating stations. Both the cw and ssb camp are very near completion. the few antennas remaining to be erected at daybreak.

We are approximately 24 hours behind our intended schedule, but believe now that the majority of the work is behind us with the remaining antenna erection to be completed at daybreak while temperatures are bearable. We anticipate being on the air with both CW and SSB stations by midday.

At 1800z, we're very close to coming on the air.