Cookies help us deliver our services.

We may use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through
the site, or to allow you to customize your preferences for interacting with the site.

By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies. OK
home QRZCQ - The database for radio hams 
 
2024-03-29 07:55:28 UTC
 
If TX6G is your callsign and you would like to fill out your profile or update your biography, you can register here and change the data afterwards.

Call:

   Advanced
 

Call:

  

Pass:

  
 

or

 
TX6G

Passive QRZCQ.com data

DX-pedition 20 March - 01 April 2014


Austral Islands

OC
austral islands
image of tx6g

Call data

Continent:OC
Views:1830
Main prefix:FK
Latitude:-23.8649840
Longitude:-147.6609060
Locator:BG66ED
DXCC Zone:508
ITU Zone:63
CQ Zone:32
Website:www.tx6g.com

QSL data

QSL information may be out of date or inaccurate!

Direct Manager:G3TXF
eQSL QSL:no
Bureau QSL:no
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:YES

Biography

Don G3BJ, Chris G3SVL, Nigel G3TXF, David G3WGN, Don G3XTT, Hilary G4JKS ,Justin G4TSH

The TX6G team plan to have up to three stations operating round the clock, depending on band conditions. Modes will be CW, SSB and RTTY. Bands are 160 through 10m (but not 60m). The antenna for 160/80m will be shared so we cannot be on both bands at the same time. It is likely that we will alternate the two bands on a daily basis – watch our blog posts.

Raivavae is one of the Austral Islands, which are part of French Polynesia but far enough away from the main group of islands to count separately for DXCC. The Australs and the Marquesas each became separate DXCC entities on 1 April 1998. Amateur radio operations have taken place from a number of different islands over the years. For IOTA, Raivavae counts as OC-114 and is the only island counting for the reference (There are four other recognized IOTA groups in the Australs).


We are not publishing operating frequencies in advance as we know there will be other expeditions active as the same time and we aim to steer clear of them. Watch the Cluster for spots. We are aware of the various international frequency allocations and will aim to be available to all countries and to all classes of licensee at some stage of the expedition.

In general, expect us to operate split frequency, probably around 1kHz up on CW and RTTY and 5kHz up on SSB. Please NEVER call on our transmit frequency. We will announce our listening frequency regularly.

We will ask the rest of the world to stand by when “edge” openings are available. Thank you for your understanding.

Other than these “edge” openings, we will not be working by numbers or call areas and we will not be participating in net operations.




We want to make it easy for you to confirm your QSOs with the TX6G Austral Islands expedition. Please follow these guidelines.

OQRS by ClubLog

(Highly Recommended)

OQRS is the the best QSL route to use to receive your TX6G QSL Card quickly and efficiently!

This is the preferred method to use for your QSL confirmation. You can order either a Direct or Bureau QSL card using the OQRS online QSL service provided by ClubLog.

Using this convenient online method you can easily apply for our QSL card to be sent Directly to your home or via the Bureau without having to send your QSL card to us.

Good News: If you are an existing ClubLog user, you do NOT need to fill in the QSO details in your OQRS request. ClubLog does this for you automatically, using QSO details from your existing log. Apart from being easier, this helps avoid typing errors. See ClubLog for more details about using OQRS.

If you are not an existing ClubLog user, please consider joining. It’s free and a great DX resource. See ClubLog for more details about setting up a new account.

If you prefer to QSL by other means, there are two alternatives:

QSL via the bureau. Either send a card via the bureau or, much faster and preferred, simply email QSL manager G3TXF with the QSO details: nigel@g3txf.com

If you wish to send a direct card, including return postage, then mail to G3TXF:

Nigel Cawthorne,
 Falcons, St George’s Avenue, Weybridge,
Surrey, KT13 0BS,
 England

Add by DO7FOX (www.tx6g.com)

Equipment

Equipment: Three Elecraft stations, each consisting of a Elecraft K3 and a Elecraft KPA500. Logging: Laptops running Win-Test, networked.

Antennas: Vertical dipole arrays for 20 through 10m. Quarter-wave verticals for 30 and 40m. 18m loaded vertical for 80m. 18m inverted-L for 160m. Various receive antennas for LF. All antennas will be located close to the water and supported by fibreglass poles.

The island has a good short-path take-off to the main centres of amateur radio population. Unfortunately, the island also has a large mountain, which will be behind the operating location making long-path QSOs very challenging, so expect short-path to predominate.

DISCLAIMER: If you are this callsign owner and want to update this information please register and update the data afterwards. If you don't want your data to appear on our site then please DO NOT register! To remove your callsign from our database please use the problem report and notify us about your wishes. More specific form to remove your callsign will be added in the near future.
  

Rev. 76d955ecd7