Category Archives: A35JT OC-049 Tonga

The logs from our Tonga DXpedition last year have now been posted to QRZ.com. We hope this will provide users of that platform with much needed confirmations!

Packed and ready to depart. @A35JT_2019 pic.twitter.com/mrcDtOJb67 — Andy VK5AKH (@vk5akh) October 6, 2019

For those wanting SSB contact with A35JT please look out on the bands for us operating the last 24 hours of the expedition in the Oceania DX contest. We hope to run all contest bands as a Multi-One station (160/80/40/20/15/10). … Continue reading →

Since we started here at A35JT we have been working 160m as much as we can on ours, NAs and EUs greylines. So far we have had 209 CW QSOs, 246 FT8 QSOs and 4 RTTY QSOs (yes you read … Continue reading →

It was an eventful day here in Tonga. The team was in the radio room working away when Oly VK5XDX says “can anyone hear crackling”. They look outside and see an approaching scrub fire. Very quickly the fire brigade was … Continue reading →

Looks like there is a logging problem with WSJT-X in fox-hound mode. Don't panic we are working on extracting QSOs out of the raw text logs. @A35JT_2019 #hamradio #softwareisshit pic.twitter.com/HzbK3RiyOK — Andy VK5AKH (@vk5akh) September 25, 2019

The A35JT DXPedition team has revised our frequency plan.  It is going to be very crowded on the bands with up to 5 concurrent expeditions. We have reviewed all available data and have made some changes accordingly. Please see the … Continue reading →

We had some great news today. Our antenna shipment has cleared customs and quarantine processes and is ready for us to collect on Monday! A huge thank you to Mary and all of the staff at Pacific Forum Line in … Continue reading →