Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Wes (N7WS)
Rolling along? Twelve ops, seven complete 500W stations and ton of antennas and 21K Q's in 6 days. E6GG with seven ops and four radios made ~ 49k Q's in 12 days. Just sayin' On 10/6/2015 10:22 AM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: TX3X on the the Chesterfield Islands is rolling along

Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Wayne Burdick
Maybe the TX3X team actually has a life? (Snorkeling, beer, group sing-a-longs, sleeping, leisurely brunch, more beer) Wayne On Oct 6, 2015, at 11:08 AM, "Wes (N7WS)" wrote: > Rolling along? Twelve ops, seven complete 500W stations and ton of antennas > and 21K Q's

Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Ken
On 10/6/15 2:13 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote: Maybe the TX3X team actually has a life? (Snorkeling, beer, group sing-a-longs, sleeping, leisurely brunch, more beer) They can do all of that at home! LOL On the serious side, they and T2GC were both on 40 CW the other morning about 30 kHz

Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Jim Brown
K6MM has been in contact with several of the ops at TX3X. They have been experiencing pretty awful WX, lots of rain, very high winds. Too much wind to get the 80M and 160M antennas up -- although they have been QRV on 80 in the last 12 hours. I worked them yesterday with 5W on 10M SSB.

Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Matthew Cook
Ahh.,...That would be why they sounded so great on 20m & 15m over the weekend when were testing/tuning up our portable QRO OCDX contest station... it was K-line to K-line (*grin*)... http://www.areg.org.au/?p=1793 Five of our ops had a crack at the pileups on both bands, although our geography

Re: [Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Yngvi (TF3Y)
Propagation has been pretty awful at Northern latitudes. Never heard over here in TF. 73, Yngvi TF3Y On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > K6MM has been in contact with several of the ops at TX3X. They have been > experiencing pretty awful WX, lots of

[Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

2015-10-06 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft
TX3X on the the Chesterfield Islands is rolling along with their K3s and KPA500s. See: www.tx3x.com and http://www.dxsummit.fi/#/?dx_calls=TX3X 73, Eric /elecraft.com/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: