Posted: 3/22/2014 3:03:44 PM EDT
TX6G DXepedition on Raivavae Island is up & running and very active. Just got them on 12M with an honest 59 receive on my end. Go get em!!! 
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Surprised this thread hasn't been hit on.
Due to home priorities radio time has been a premium since they went on the air. However got on yesterday and got 'em on 10m and 12m CW. That's all I'm going to get. Left town today for work and they'll be QRT before I get back home. What's cool is that they confirmed by LoTW within 24 hours of the QSOs. |
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I have found the TX6G operators to be fantastic. Well organized, very clear and solid control of the pileup. I have them on 12M, 15M and 17M, all SSB. I have seen them elsewhere and different modes, but haven't really pursued them hard. The weather has been good, so I've been in the back yard putting down radials instead.
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I got them on 12 and 15 meter, CW. Their signal has been very strong on 12 meters the last couple of days.
I put up my 40m antenna tonight, to try to chase some DX, but there were a few scattered thunderstorms off to the northeast, and the static noise was so bad that I gave up pretty quickly. 
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I actually ignored them for the first two days since I already had that entity on the high bands they were working. If I had started working them early I probably would have made the leader board.
So far... http://i.imgur.com/Ezto2TS.jpg |
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I need that one! I do well into Australia & New Zealand. I got good reports from them on digital modes & SSB during the last ARRL contest weekend. Should be able to work them. I'll listen some this weekend.  They've been coming in fairly well for me here. The biggest issue is breaking the pileup since I'm far from the strongest signal for them. |
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They've been coming in fairly well for me here. The biggest issue is breaking the pileup since I'm far from the strongest signal for them. You would be surprised as to how you can bust through pileups. WHile some guys out there are lazy and just pick the plums, there are a LOT of guys that LIKE to work the weaker stations. ANother thing is tonight with the contest going on you just wait the pileups out a bit. 9L1A was BEGGING for calls and worked me even though I KNOW I was a 2x2. There was a MONSTER pileup for 5W1SA (Samoa) and I just got in there and slugged it out. The pileup slowed and got through. I think he had to put on his cans. The great and powerful TX6G was a second try effort because people avoided him because of the contest. They THOUGHT they'd have to fight a King Hell mess so they shined it. So far tonight's log only has 5 QSOs in it but 3 of them are new ones.
Patience and thinking go far. Incidentally, a lot of you guys would be astonished to see how FEW QSOs are in my log after a LONG day. I don't make a QSO without a reason, except for Cubans. Those I work when I see them. For me I am driven for new ones. |
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I'm a lot like Pic. I'll spend several hours in the chair and maybe make a half dozen contacts. I pick what I work carefully. Mainly so I don't waste my precious operating time.
For example I've got Germany on every band I have an HF antenna for and have done them on phone, CW, and digi. The time I would spent to work Germany again is time taken away in finding Cyprus on 12m for example or filling that empty band/state slot in the log. I have a tendency to work Cuba whenever I see him also. As for busting pileups being smarter at it goes farther than having a legal limit amp and an aluminum overcast of an antenna. Know when to pick your fight. The first 2 to 4 days of a DXpedition is a dogfight with all the big guns wanting to get him in the log. Wait it out. Use that time to get an idea of what bands and times is best to hear the DX. Toward the end of the DXpedition you'll start seeing spots such as US0XXX up 2 begging. The rush has died down and the little pistol can now be heard. Listen to where he is listening at. Find a clear spot near there. Set your rig to split and wait your turn. Can't tell you the number of times it's been 3 calls or less and they're in the log using this technique. I have clear goals when I flip on the switch. - Log a new DX. - Log an old DX on a new band. - If the DX hasn't been worked once on phone, CW or digi, work the missing mode. - If there isn't any new DX slots to work, work on WAS. Working states is similar. I've worked all 50 on each of the 3 modes. Now the push is to fill those band/state slots for 5BWAS. Ultimate lifetime goal is work all 50 on each band on each of the 3 modes. I'll be busy for a few decades. |
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Sadly your call sign for the 15m contact is not in his log...... the 30 watt Guerrilla Radio failed you.  Quoted:
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Got him. 15 meters. Simplex. PRC320  Sadly your call sign for the 15m contact is not in his log...... the 30 watt Guerrilla Radio failed you. My bad. It was 12 meters. My QSL card has been ordered.
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My bad. It was 12 meters. My QSL card has been ordered.
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Got him. 15 meters. Simplex. PRC320 Sadly your call sign for the 15m contact is not in his log...... the 30 watt Guerrilla Radio failed you. My bad. It was 12 meters. My QSL card has been ordered.
Guerrilla Radio .... FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!  
12m has been a very good bad for me lately. |
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. Toward the end of the DXpedition you'll start seeing spots such as US0XXX up 2 begging. The rush has died down and the little pistol can now be heard.. I worked Sierra Leone that way during the contest. I had him with a 2x2 signal and when he was shouting "Contest! XX4X." The second or third time I heard it I answered him and he was so slow he took the time to work me. |