T88WA

Finally home after 24h of travel! Time for some rest, we'll keep this active for a couple of weeks as we pull photos/videos and start putting together stories. Thanks to you all for being there on the other end when we called!

We did have some great corporate assistance and appreciate their confidence in us - @DXEngineering gave coax and crimpers, #RadioSport gave a good deal on headsets, and @s9plus20 loaned us a BigIR. We certainly appreciate their support and couldn't have done it without them!

We didn't look for sponsors, and took quite a bit of risk to make the expedition happen. Getting T88WA in your log, and using that to cover some hard costs is one of the measures of success. If we had failed, it was on us, but the costs of success are able to be shared by many.

We pay for OQRS service per request; remaining proceeds all go to offset the non-personal costs of the trip. Ocean freight, fuel, generator, local transportation, etc. all add up more than $12k. Flights, room/board, etc. Is paid for by the individual team members out of pocket.

Seattle bound! Final leg home. Going to have to dig out our long sleeves 😅

Almost home! Beautiful sunrise in SFO.

So long Palau, it's been a memorable trip! Taking off to reverse our journey here with flights ROR-GUM-HNL-SFO-SEA

Logs from late in the last day, including Satellite logs, may not show up for a few days (sat logs have to be handled separately when I get home since we had the logging computers shut down already).

Now that we're QRT, all log inquiries should go through Tim. Check if you're in the log and request LoTW / Card. If you don't see your call in the log, fill out a missing QSL request with the appropriate information. We can't respond to any QSL / log inquiries here.

Most of our logs have been updated online. A few from this afternoon were made after the hotspot was packed, so they'll be uploaded tomorrow. Check our logs for your QSO and request your QSL at m0urx.com/oqrs/logsearch…

Into the night we worked on cleaning, packing, and organizing. Work resumes at sunrise tomorrow to get the gear fully packed for shipping and ready for the long trip by boat back to WA, USA.

This afternoon we made the last few QSOs and brought down all of the antennas. The lucky last one in the log was @jg2tsl on the RS-44 satellite pass. Just before that we worked quite a few new ones in Europe on 12 SSB. So great to work you all!

Not a bad final sunset over T88WA

We're QRT! We'll share some pictures of the last bit of operation and teardown later tonight. Now packing the gear as much as possible tonight as the shipping company comes at 10AM. Thanks for all the memorable QSOs!

@ghift10 @kikori1906 @k5em SSB only

@T88WA @kikori1906 @k5em That's amazing!😊I will QRV,thank you very much!BTW,Will you use SSB or CW? DE BG5UZW

T88WA may be active on satellite next week

Antennas are coming down. Big antenna, RX antenna, and one beam are down. One beam and the BigIR are still up and we'll keep them up and working as long as it is practical.

@kikori1906 @ghift10 @k5em Let's try this twitter.com/T88WA/status/1…

@T88WA @ghift10 @k5em Roger. FYI, I haven't heard any signals on the birds from T8 since 2006. So I for one am very much looking forward to it. Thanks.

We're going to try the 0755Z pass of RS-44 today 11/14. Good pass for JA. Enter your grid to see your overlap times. I'll be 145.975 up fixed TX. GL! satmatch.com/satellite/RS-4…

Thanks to all those that were able to stick in there and overcome our S9++ noise last night to close a QSO on Top Band. We were able to put over 1000 160m QSOs in the log. Due to a very tight shipping schedule tomorrow, we'll be taking the TB antennas down today.

@pzoba Correct, but we were operating standard mode on 160.

@T88WA I’m under the impression that doesn’t work in Hound mode. Am I wrong? W7PEZ

If you're calling us on Top Band, please double click your TX1 button to skip TX 1, it saves some cycles and lets everyone have more of a chance.