Clipperton Island 2024, TX5S, is in the Books. DX Engineering-Sponsored Activation Nets 113,000+ QSOs.

After a windswept stay in January, the 16-operator TX5S team left the French overseas state private property of Clipperton Island (IOTA NA-011) with an impressive 113,738 QSOs in their logbook and a boatload of stories to tell about their adventures on this uninhabited and rarely activated atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Team members described the pileups as “constant” and “energetic,” and the excursion as a “truly wonderful experience for all involved.” One successful chaser deemed TX5S as “the best organized DXpedition in the annals of ham radio,” singling out the 24-hour, all-band, all-mode coverage that gave DXers ample opportunity to make contact. As of February, Clipperton Island, which ranked as the 38th most-wanted DXCC entity prior to TX5S, had dropped out of the top 50, per Clublog—a testimony to skillful operators and the DX chasers who showed the patience needed to break through on 160-6M. All of us at OnAllBands and DX Engineering hope you were one of the fortunate operators to end up in the logbook.

As a major equipment sponsor of TX5S, DX Engineering contributed gear that played an important role in helping to make sure the TX5S team could hear and be heard as DXers from around the world filled bands and recorded ATNOs via CW, SSB, FT8, EME, and Satellites. Here’s what they took along from DX Engineering, including superior-quality DX Engineering branded coaxial cable and Next Generation PL-259 connectors:

• DX Engineering Premier Telescoping Heavy-Duty Carbon Fiber Mast, 33 Feet

• DX Engineering F-Connector RG-6 Coax Cable Tool Kit

DX Engineering High-Visibility Antenna Wire

COMTEK Vertical Feedpoint Connection Kits

• DX Engineering RG-8/U 50-ohm Bulk Coaxial Cable
  
• DX Engineering Premium Antenna Wire
  
• DX Engineering DVA Dual Vertical Array Systems for 30 and 40 Meters

• COMTEK 30VA 30 Meter and 40VA 40 Meter Vertical Antennas, Pair
  
• COMTEK Inline 1:1 Current Feedline Choke

• COMTEK Control Cable
  
• DX Engineering Coaxial RF Connector Adapters

• DX Engineering RG-8U PL-259 Low-Loss 50-ohm Coax Cable Assemblies

• DX Engineering RG-8X 50-ohm Bulk Cable

• DX Engineering RFI Suppression Snap-On Ferrite Beads

• DX Engineering 450-ohm Ladder Line
  
• DX Engineering Maxi-Core 20 1:1 Current Ch0ke
  
• Phased Array Quarter Wave Tuned Cables for 30M and 40M
  
• DX Engineering Stainless Steel Radial Plates

• DX Engineering Next Generation Crimp/Solder 8U and 8X PL-259 Connectors

• DX Engineering RG-6U 75-ohm Standard Quad-Shield Coaxial Cable

We look forward to hearing personal accounts of this DXpedition at hamfests in the months to come. In the meantime, check out the TX5S Facebook page for some amazing photos from Clipperton Island.