TX9W
Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands
DXpedition
April 2026
The Team: Jeff Martin – K5WE, Craig Boyer – W5CCP, Dave Jorgensen – WD5COV, Jeremy Conkling – N5TEA, Bob Hensey – K4VBM, Didier Cadot – F6BCW
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The DXpedition
A team of 6 operators, four from the Oklahoma DX Assn (OKDXA), one from New Mexico and one from France, K5WE, W5CCP, N5TEA, K4VBM, WD5COV, and F6BCW will be active as TX9W from the village of Atuona on the island of Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands beginning 19 April through 30 April, 2026. They will operate all bands 160 through 6 meters using the CW, FT8, FT4, SSB, and RTTY modes. The Grid Square is CI00LE, IOTA # is OC-027, CQ Zone is 31, and the ITU Zone is 63. Depending upon a reliable internet connection, logs will be uploaded to Clublog daily and Clublog Livestream will be active. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW upon returning home. Periodic updates will occur on this webpage. Currently, the Marquesas Islands entity is number 63 world-wide and number 43 in Europe on the Clublog most wanted list…
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News & Updates
20Feb2026 Update
Preparations are moving along toward our April 18th departure date. A new Buddihex hexbeam has been acquired. We have also purchased an additional amplifier, an Acom 700s, bringing our total number of amps to 6, three kilowatt plus and three more 500 watt plus. Antennas have been prepared and tested. Dave is bringing his Top Band Express antenna for 160 and 80. We hope to make a good number of QSOs on 160 & 80. We are planning a system of triplexer and band pass filters to minimize inter-station interference.
Our priority will be putting QSOs in the log, with a good mix of digi, cw, and ssb. We will look for Europe when propagation permits as the need for Marquesas is greatest in Europe.
Our additional baggage expense will be excessive. Any donations to help with that expense will be welcomed and appreciated. https://k5we.com/tx9w/
Hope to CU soon from TX9W… Team Marquesas…
7Jan2026 – Our thanks to Jari – OH6BG for adding TX9W to the VOACAP DX Charts listings and creating a dedicated propagation prediction page. Try it out by clicking the VOACAP Prop Prediction button…
15Dec2025 – The TX9W team would like to announce that DX Engineering has made a generous donation of Antenna and Coax hardware to the Marquesas DXpedition. We greatly appreciate the help. Thanks Tim…
1Oct2025 – Website online. TX9W – Marquesas Islands DXpedition announced.
24Sept2025 – TX9W license granted by the French Polynesian licensing authority, the ANFR…