March 30th 2008
Here the latest news from the 5T5DC.
A nice time is going to an end. Two teammembers are back home 2 days ago.
Now the Crew is preparing to diismount the antennas and equipment for
the way back home on 31th March.
It was a nice trip and the Crew will say many thanks to all for nice QSO's and
we hope to meet you again on the next trip maybe.
5T5DC will going QRT on 30th March, after sunset Mauretania.
1-Band QSOs: 10032
2-Band QSOs: 4056
3-Band QSOs: 2472
4-Band QSOs: 1697
5-Band QSOs: 1265
6-Band QSOs: 912
7-Band QSOs: 745
8-Band QSOs: 492
9-Band QSOs: 306
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March 26th 2008
Here the latest news from Mauritania.
All stations running well. Many nice QSO in the logs after good propagation last days. Every day about 5000 QSO in log. The Sunspots are now rating higher and lets hope for more good openings on 10m and 12m but the conditions on the lower bands going up and down now.
The Pactor runs und bring us the log from last day every day after. The crew has to fight against any problems wit the 9X0R if they operate on the same frequencies.
The pileups are mixed and many dupes in log.
On lowbands now SSB is running. Please call with your full call and not with last two letters or any two letters or so.
Please if 5T5DC is calling only JA or only Asia please be quiet and don't call if you are not from called zone.
Asia has a very small slot to reach 5T on lowbands, please give Asia a chance too.
Now here a small actual statistic:
EU: 38585 QSOs
AS: 1821 QSOs
AF: 944 QSOs
NA: 16347 QSOs
SA: 991 QSOs
OC: 216 QSOs
DL: 7177 QSOs
JA: 1022 QSOs
EA8: 721 QSOs !!!
USA: 14735 QSOs
More you can see if you call the OnlineLog page.
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March 22th 2008
Latest news from 5T.
Now 39294 QSO in the log on all bands, only 10m is running not so well, propagation to far stations are down.
Yesterday the first QSO on 160m SSB are in the log. Today following bands are planned to work this night:
80m SSB 160m SSB 30m RTTY (2200z to 0100z)
First on 160m from 2000z to 2100z 5T5DC will look for JA only and lisn 5 down.
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After long 3 days without news from the crew now here the latest.
Antennas:
All antennas now ready to use and the crew is on air from 160m to 10m. Any problems with the 160m inverted-L antenna are removed and we hope we can bring up a good signal around the globe.
For 80m the crew has build a new inverted-L antenne and mount this.
All stations now are running but we only can operate from 5T with legal limit only 100W all bands.
We hope we can get a permission to make more power next days. We will inform you.
Team:
All crewmembers are in fine shape after a little time to acclimatize from 5 degree in germany to 45 degree and hot sun in Mauritanie.
Log:
Now the Pactor is running well and we hope to update the log daily.
For the 5T Crew is DX-Cluster or Internet not available
Please remember: Maretanie is one of the poorest Countries of the world. It is not Europe not America it is just Africa.
Pictures:
First impressions you can find on the button Pictures above this side.
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March 15th 2008
5T5DC is on the air. Good luck and good propagation.
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March 14th 2008
All like on plan. Crew is on the fly to 5T via a short stop in Casablanca.
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March 13th 2008
The Crew is on travel to FFM Airport as on plan. All sign's on GO!
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Sunday, March 9th 2008
The last tests for sending the logupdates via pactor passed successful. So we can send news and logs daily without any needed internet backup.
In the last days we get more help by several organizations and DXers.
While everyone can listen to pirate calls during the preparation of the Clipperton DX-Pedition we will inform you about our callsign just in time.... Please be patient and have a look at this side from time to time....
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scheduler
March, 14th: meeting of the guys coming from the East at DK8YYs location for picking up
the equipment at noon the complete team will arrive at Frankurt / Main
airport for checking in flight to Casablanca, short meeting with Ingrid
Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. After a last drink the Royal Air Maroc will
bring us to Nouakchott.
March, 15th: around 0200 UTC we will check out and go by bus to our location. We hope
to find a few hours of sleep and after breakfast we will setup the stations.
So, if everything works fine, we can get on air one day earlier as planned at
afternoon. As quick as possible we will errect groundplanes for the higher
bands. So we can operate within a short time. The other antennas will setup
at the first and second day.
March, 15th to
30th: DXpedition runs
March, 20th: Rich, DK8YY will arrive at Mauritania
March, 28th: Ralf, DL3JJ and Andi, DL7ZZ will leave the team with unused equipment back
to Germany.
March, 29th / 30th: A part of the crew will participate in CQ-WPX-contest
March, 30th / 31st: packing the rest and backflight to Frankfurt / Main from there the guys
will get back to their homes.
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After a few weeks here are the latest news.
Arround new years
eve the breaking news for canceling the 30th session of the Rallye
Paris - Dhakar made a little discussion within the team. But after a
short break we went back to normal business. Everything is still on GO!
A
few calls and emails to the German and Mauritania embassies gave us a
good feeling. We cross the fingers for a lucky DXpedition!
Next
weekend a part of the team will meet for packing and minimizing the
transportweights (you can buy 10kg more package for 160 euros,
supportinfo at the end of this side ;-) ) , checking the rest of the
equipment and get the last eyeball-QSO before they are leaving in the
mid of March.
Six guys will start their trip at March, 14th from
Frankfurt / Main airport, so it may be possible that we will start one
day earlier than we expected. Rich, DK8YY will follow one week later.
Ralf, DL3JJ and Andi, DL7ZZ will leave the team at 5T at March, 28th
for getting back home to the office. The rest of them will fly home at
March, 30st.
Next news will come a.s.a.p.
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10.11.2007 – the homepage made by Frank, DO1CTL is ready to fill with news. TNX Frank!
At present this is the team:
Uli, DH7WW - he will be the one will send you the requested QSL, via bureau or direct 100%!
Rich, DK8YY – a hardcore DXer and contester, member of DA0HQ. More than 2700 DXCCs on 9 bands worked.
Rene, DL2JRM – any country he didn’t activate? Known as a real
pileup-eater!
Ralf, DL3JJ – over 220 DXCCs and all 40 zones confirmed on 160m, he’s a real topband-enthusiast! Member of DA0HQ
Ingolf, DL4JS – techniques, satellite and digital modes. He’s the guy you can wake up in every minute to repair everything!
Dan, DL5SE – what is the best side in pileup? There you sit alone and give the new ones to the guys outside!
Andi, DL7ZZ – crazy to handle a pileup, SSB or CW! He’s a topband-enthusiast!
Frank, DO1CTL – the guy stay at home to be the pilot during our trip, give you the latest news and handles the online-log.
14.11.2007 - Oli, DL2ARD – is the new one in our team. He’s a high-speed SSB-only operator. “Mr.10m” of DA0HQ! If you can hear him working a JA-pileup as a German, come and enjoy!
If you would support this DXpedition, please send a message to support@5T2008.de. Thank you very much!