Hi friends, The Japy DX Group made another summer DX trip devoted to Transequatorial Propagation to Itapoa´s Beach, State of Santa Catarina, south of Brazil. The standart call used as amateur radio station was PY2OC/PP5. The team was formed by Enos Emerick PY2ENO, Luiz Tresso PY2OC, Peter Sprengell PY5CC/PP5XX and the writter of this e-mail.
TEP noted during all days of operation, some not so strong but others able for listen and make QSOs with caribbean stations by their local repeaters on 144 MHz. Following the QSOs, all with PY2OC/PP5: 12 feb 2006 147,360 MHz - 0147 UTC - J73CI by FM Dominica rpt 59 147,110 MHZ - 0222 UTC - J73YH by FM Dominica rpt 59 16 feb 2006 146,940 MHZ - 0235 UTC - J86BG by St Lucia FM rpt 59 17 feb 2006 146,940 MHz - 0102 UTC - J68AK by St Lucia FM RPT 59 147,360 MHz - 0110 UTC - J73CI by Dominica FM RPT 59 146,940 MHz - 0120 UTC - PU5YFT by St Lucia FM RPT 59 Interesting 144,390 MHz APRS frequency that was usefull for us as TEP beacon. There´s J7 activity on that freq, but we only copy FM Martinica message traffic. We also try YV5LIX beacon several times but without reception. These are the TEP time openings considering also 6 meters and FM Broadcasting Band: 2006 10 feb: 0134 ~ 0246 >>> 1 hour and 21 min 11 feb: 0026 ~ 0304 >>> 2 hours and 37 min 11 feb: 2320 ~ 12 feb 0230 (QSOs made) >>> 3 hours 13 feb: 0020 ~ 0436 >>> 4 hours and 16 min 14 feb: 0132 ~ 0245 >>> 1 hour and 12 min 15 feb: 0001 ~ 0200 >>> 1 hour and 59 min 16 feb: 0118 ~ 0348 >>> 2 hours and 30 min 16 feb: 2351 ~ 17 feb 0325 (QSOs made)>>> 3 hours and 34 min 18 feb: 0136, 0150 >>> short peaks, mobile reception On FM, very strong signal came from probaly Radio St Lucia (97,3 MHz) with VOA and BBC programms and Radio Sud Est (89,3 MHz) from Martinique. From Barbados 98,1 FM was the best, even on the trip to return to our QTHs in Sao Paulo we heard on the highway (mobile) this station with portable receiver and telescopic antenna. By this link you can see some photos and 2 videos with TEP´s QSOs: http://www.radioamador.com/japy The complete log, antennas and equipment info, etc: http://www.japydx.org/itapoa/itapoa_log_full.pdf The VHF/UHF´s log: http://www.japydx.org/itapoa/itapoa_log_vhf.pdf The relation of Caribbean QRGs that we were QRV: http://www.japydx.org/itapoa/itapoa_freq_carib.pdf Also Utility log: http://www.japydx.org/itapoa/itapoa_log_ute.pdf Please, If you know interesting QRGs from Carib (beacons, repeaters, local chat freq, nodes, etc) or know DXers and researchers interested in TEP, send us one e-mail for future skeds. 73! Flávio Archangelo PY2ZX Jundiaí - São Paulo - Brazil GG66nt ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
