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WX CAUSES EARLY QRT OF TX5C
Due to consistently poor wx and rig problems from the wx it looks as if TX5C will QRT as early as Friday. They have been really beaten up by tropical storms and high temps.

W1GDQ

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VK4AN, Eddie DeYoung, reports he and his son VK4FRAJ, Raj, are
planning to be QRV from the semi-rare IOTA OC-121. They are looking
at a resort on Malolo Lailai Island, in the Mamanuca Group, Fiji
between May 17th and 31st. They have a special call to be used in the
CQ WPX CW Contest.

ＴＸ５Ｃ ストームに悩まされている

Yesterday WA1S, Ann, one of the TX5C ops, was heard reporting on the
difficult conditions on Clipperton. The team has been battered with
multiple storms which have apparently caused numerous problems. The
TX5C DXpedition team has lost several keyers, antennas, amplifiers
along with generator problems. Two of the three SSB amps have died.
The team may begin shutting down operations on Friday and leaving the
island over the weekend, because of the weather. The TX5C operators
have their own Blogs. You can access them by going to
http://www.clipperton2008.org/operators/operators.htm and then
clicking on their photo.

ＴＸ５Ｃ ｌｏｇｓｅｒｃｈ

Last QSO in database 2008-03-12 01:58:43
Total QSOs in Database 41564 |First QSO: 2008-03-09 00:28:42
Bands: 10M-1852 12M-2673 15M-5913 17M-5586 20M-7772 30M-3864 40M-7462 80M-5229 160M-1213 |
Modes:PH-19482 CW-20505 RTTY-1577

http://www.clipperton2008.org/logsearch/

ＴＸ５Ｃ ４万ＱＳＯ超える

Q's now total 40,573. Yesterday we had three major thunderstorms that tore up the camp. Generators in both the SSB and CW camps went down and took repairs to get back up. Winds toppled antennas and they had to be repaired. We lost our 15 meter SVDA in the SSB camp which was destroyed by the winds. We will attempt to straight out or replace the broken aluminum today. Two of our CW keyers went down and we cannot repair them. So our operators are sending cw the good old fashioned way but it's reducing our q rate. Morale is high and despite the weather we are all working as hard as we can. The thunderstorms are also causing our noise levels in the night to be extremely high. These thunderstorms have been increasing in size and frequency for the past several days. Although they blow through in about 15 minutes, they dump on average about an inch of rain or more and are accompanied by very strong gusting winds.





TX5C - Continents

By band - All modes

QSOs (with dupes)

Band EU NA SA AF AS OC

160 0.40% 97.80% 0.50% 0.40% 0.90%
80 11.00% 71.50% 0.80% 0.40% 14.20% 2.00%
40 24.00% 49.30% 1.60% 0.80% 23.00% 1.40%
30 13.50% 65.90% 0.70% 0.30% 19.20% 0.40%
20 12.00% 76.00% 1.80% 0.20% 7.20% 2.70%
17 7.00% 78.90% 2.00% 0.50% 10.40% 1.20%
15 2.50% 79.10% 4.50% 0.90% 12.20% 0.80%
12 0.10% 91.60% 3.70% 0.30% 3.40% 0.80%
10 0.20% 89.50% 7.20% 0.10% 2.20% 0.90%
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