Update May 2, 2024: We left Raivavae at 9AM local this morning. We will spend one night here in Papette, then fly home to Tulsa on United via San Francisco and Denver, arriving about 8PM Friday evening Tulsa time. First of all, I would like to thank all our sponsors and donors. Your support has been terrific and of great benefit to us. The next item I want to mention is our lack of reliable internet. The wireless from the resort was unusable from our bungalows. We gave the little store across the road $50 to use their wireless connection. It was very marginable. Only one of my computers would connect. I could not do an update to the dxpedition website. We could not do Livestream. We attempted to do daily uploads to Club Log. This involved copying and then uploading as many as six files from the different computers. It often took several attempts to get the files uploaded. Sometimes it took an hour or two to do the daily uploads… So, a lot of our plans regarding reporting our activities to you via internet did not happen. We had many antenna and other issues to resolve. I will get into more detail about all that later. Our primary focus was putting QSOs in the log. Club Log shows a little more than 60K QSOs in 14 days by the two operators Jeff and Craig. The number may be slightly less than that after I review the logs and remove some dupes. Regardless, we are happy with the total. I will do more updates and write a DXpedition story after returning home and as time permits. QSL cards will be ordered and QSLing will begin as soon as we get them. A big thank you to all the deserving DXers out there for all the QSOs. We hope we put on a good show… Hope to CU from the next one. Jeff – K5WE and Craig – W5CCP, the TX7W Austral Islands team.

Update April 15, 2024: Jeff, K5WE and Craig, W5CCP are in Papeete, Tahiti airport. They will depart for Raivavae, Austral Islands today.

Update March 8, 2024: Preparations are progressing nicely for our operation from TX7W – Austral Islands. Hardcopy license has been received. Accommodations and airline reservations have been completed and paid. Radios, amplifiers, and computers have been acquired, software configured. Gear and antennas are being tested. We plan to have 4 stations on the air when possible with a nice compliment of antennas. Austral is currently #59 on the Club Log Most Wanted List. Many thanks to our corporate, club, and individual supporters. Your donations are appreciated!

K5WE and W5CCP will be QRV on 160 - 6m (CW, FT8, FT4, SSB and RTTY) as TX7W from Raivavae Island, OC-114, Austral Islands, on April 16-30, 2024.
Equipment will include 4 Elecraft & Yaesu transceivers with 500 watt amps, two 5 band hexbeams, a Crank-IR vertical, and various other antennas.

QSL via K5WE, ClubLog.