segunda-feira, 5 de novembro de 2007

Coming Back Home

Hi folks, the dream is over... we have spent gorgeous days in Guyana during this dx-pedition facing some state-of-the-art pile-ups. Today, it is Monday (Nov., 5th 2007) in the end of the afternoon and we are in Boa Vista, Roraima State, north of Brazil. Our flight back to Sao Paulo will live at 00:30h am tomorrow and we will get there at 07:30h am. We will insert many pictures, comments and stories about this dx-pedition here, in a near future. By now, we would appreciate to thank all those friends that supported and incentived us and they certainly made it come true. Furthermore, we also want to thank all those colleagues that tried hard to get us and succeeded and those who did not succeed... but tried. Thank you all ! If we could, we would certainly work every and all colleagues. However, many reasons did not enable it. Anyway, it was definitely a lifetime experience !!! 73 and thank you all, ALEX (PY2WAS), ANDERSON (PY2TNT) and PETER (8R1WD).

sexta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2007

Hello Japan and colleagues from Asia

We were contacted by Mr. Mitsumasa Uto (Mitsu) - JH4IFF requesting us to pay a special attention to JA and Asia, mainly on 30m and 80m.

Therefore, we are pleased to announce that we will dedicate some time of our dx-pedition to focus QSOs with Asian-Pacific stations, specially during sunrise (between 9:30h am UTC and 10:30 am UTC) and sunset (between 9:30h pm UTC and 10:30 pm UTC) in 8R.

According to present propagation conditions, we assume that we will have chance of contact with Asian-Pacific stations only in 20, 30 and 40m, although we will try 80m, by attending to Mitsu's request. The better chances will be 20 and 30m, as we will be using a beam antenna. We remind you that we will not be using linear amplifiers, but genuine 100W-rigs only.

Please, check dx clusters to find us during the operation as we are afraid of not having broadband connection available there.

Good luck and good hunting !

sexta-feira, 21 de setembro de 2007

Frequencies in use

Finally, we have already defined our lodging, that is, we will be hosted in 8R1WD's house. We are really excited to start our operation in Guyana in the beginning of November and we do wish propagation may give us a break to reach our target of 1000 QSOs every day, at least. Due to problems with air company time schedule, our flight back to Brazil will leave Georgetown on Nov, 5th 2007 at 1pm. That is why we are supposed to be operating up to Nov, 5th 2007 up to 9am. Below you may find the preferable frequencies elected to be used by the 8R1PY team in Guyana:

2m - 144.300 MHz USB
10m - 28.020 MHz CW / 28.410 MHz USB
12m - 24.895 MHz CW / 24.940 MHz USB
15m - 21.020 MHz CW / 21.310 MHz USB
17m - 18.075 MHz CW / 18.110 MHz USB
20m - 14.010 MHz CW / 14.210 MHz USB
30m - 10.108 MHz CW
40m - 7.010 MHz CW / 7.065 MHz LSB (and, sometimes, RX at 7.190 MHz to US ops)
60m - 5.403.5 MHz USB
80m - 3.510 MHz CW / 3.780 MHz LSB

sábado, 8 de setembro de 2007

QSL Manager for 8R1PY

The QSL manager for this dx-pedition will be the CWJF official station PY4KL, which will be receiving QSLs via buro or directly (if you prefer to send it directly, please check www.qrz.com. Edson - PY4WAS is the president of CWJF and will be ready to answer any question about QSLs arisen from contacts with 8R1PY.

Amazing Announcement

We are very happy to announce that Peter Denny (8R1WD) is joining the team as the third active member of this dx-pedition in Guyana. Peter made it come true and now, Peter is honouring us with his presence in the team. Welcome, Peter !!! It will be certainly a great time together !

quarta-feira, 5 de setembro de 2007

DX-PEDITION TO GUYANA (8R) - 2007

Dear colleagues,
It is the start of a ham journey from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Georgetown, Guyana next November/2007, if nothing else is going to fail. Actually, Anderson (PY2TNT) and me (Alex - PY2WAS / PY1WAS) intend to spend 4 days transmitting 24 hours from Guyana (8R) from 2 to 80 meters, SSB and CW.
It has been too hard to get by all obstacles to get there. Bureaucracy in Brazil and Guyana has been the hardest one. We would appreciate to thank so much for the support of two great guys: Fred (PY2XB) in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Peter Denny (8R1WD) in Georgetown, Guyana. Peter is providing the license to use call sign 8R1PY close to NFMU (National Frequency Management Unit), which will be used in this dx-pedition from Nov, 1st 2007 to Nov, 4th 2007, if everything continues going on. Without Peter's support in Guyana, this dx-pedition could not have been possible. We intend to start to divulge this dx-pedition up to the end of September 2007, when we will have a clearest scenario about all details to make it come true.