[Dx-qsl] 7P8ZZ Cards

Sun Jun 8 15:22:00 2003

Pat:

If you will send myself or Frosty K5LBU your card (via callbook
addresses) for 7P8ZZ Andre we will make sure Andre gets it, but we are
not his managers, its just we will see him.  We will be at the ARRL
National Conv. and he will be there also and we'll be sure he gets it.
In fact Andre will be staying with Frosty in Houston before he comes up
to the Dallas Fort Worth area for Ham Com and the ARRL National.  Send
one of us the QSO information and maybe Andre can bring a card with him
and mail it from here.

Tom, WW5L

Pat:

Listen for 7P8TA--WW5L Tom ,
7P8CF--K5LBU  Frosty, 7P8DA--K4SV Dave, 7P8IZ--W0IZ, 7P8Nk--VA7DX Neil,
or 7P8MJ--W5MJ Madison.
July 18-25.  We WILL QSL, just QSL via our home calls.  We're an all
band, all mode operation July 18-25.  Even 6 meter, RTTY, and AO40
satellite.
FYI here's a copy of our last news release.  Also we are NOT the African
"Double Jump" operation from Botswana and Lesotho who will be on the air
late June early July during a hamcation they ae taking.

We will have a full color team QSL card, even though we are using our
own calls.  Also some of us will have individual cards for some folks
who don't want to wait a little while for the color card.

Tom, WW5L/7P8TA

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The July 18-25 Lesotho 7P8 DXpedition sponsor by the Lone Star
DX Association and the Texas DX Society has added amateur satellite mode
to its planned operations, DXpedition Leader Charles Frost, K5LBU/7P8TA
has announced.

The operation will be on the AO-40 satellite.  The uplink will
be U--band (70cm) uplink on U-band 435.550 to 435.800 MHz CW/LSB and S2
(2.4GHz) downlink 2401.225 - 2401.475 MHz CW/USB, Frost said.  The
AO-40 satellite was launched Nov, 16, 2000 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket
from
 Kourou, French Guiana.

Equipment including antennas and a down converter were donated
by Wayne Estes, W9AE and a spare down converter donated by Bruce Paige,
KK5DO. Paige, qsl manager for
the recent P5/4L4FN operation from North Korea is also providing
pre-Dxpedition satellite training in Houston. Paige is AMSAT VP of User
 Services & ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC). For additional 7P8
 satellite information and news click on http://www.amsatnet.com

 "We're glad to offer such a needed mode from Lesotho," Frost
said, adding that those wanting to  make a contact with the DXpedition
"take
 it easy on us because none of us are satellite operators, but we are
 willing to try our best at giving everyone who wants one a 7P8 QSO."

Besides Frost, the operators include: Igor Zdorov, W0IZ/7P8IZ,
of Minneapolis MN, Dave Anderson of Ashville NC K4SV/7P8DA, Madison
Jones
 of Houston TX, W5MJ/7P8MJ; Neil King of Port Coquitlam, British
Columbia Canada VA7DX/7P8NK; and Tom Anderson of Colleyville TX,
WW5L/7P8TA, on
 the all modes, all band team July 18-25 from Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho.  "

The 7P8 operation will be an all mode, all band operation. "We
hope to have at least one station on the air 24 hours a day," said
Frost, of Missouri City TX, vice-president of the Texas DX Society
http://www.tdxs.net/, which is coordinating the DXpedition along with
the Lone Star DX Association
http://www.dxer.org/lsdxa. "Two of our operators are excellent SSB
operators and the other four
are specialists in CW and the digital modes," he added. Jones is
president of the TDXS, while Tom Anderson is vice-president and
information director of the Lone Star DX Association.

Operations will be will be at the Hotel Mount Maluti
http://www.seelesotho.com/mountmaluti.htm near Mohale's Hoek (30.16 S
and 27.48 E).  Equipment includes Tribanders for 10-15-20, a 2 element
WARC Band antenna, a log periodic, a 40-80-160 vertical, and Alpha
Delta 40/80/160 dipoles. Kenwood TS850S, ICOM 706MKIIg and 756 PRO, plus
600
  and 1 KW amps. Most of the equipment is already in country.

 QSLs will be handled by each operator separately via their
 home calls as each will have their own 7P8 call.

 QSL routes are: 7P8CF--K5LBU--Frosty; 7P8TA--WW5L--Tom;
 7P8MJ--W5MJ--Madison; 7P8NK--VA7DX--Neil; 7P9DA--K4SV--Dave; and 
7P8IZ--W0IZ--Igor.

 Andre van Wyck, ZS6WPX, is the on-scene coordinator of the
 DXpedition.

 Commerical equipment donors include Tennadyne Antennas, Array
 Solutions, and AY-Technologies.

 For additional information contact Frost at [email protected] or
  Tom Anderson at [email protected].