Instead of signing K2J as initially planned, I was able to get "K2T" ("T" since
North Carolina is the "Tarheel" State) assigned to me at the last minute for
the 1-4 July time frame.
K2J will still be on the air from NC, at least on HF, and I'll be QRV on both
HF as well as the sats. I'll be on the FM birds at the least; the linear sats
will be used as well if I can get my Acer netbook to use SatPC32 to talk to my
897 and?adjust the freqs for Doppler. Contacts with either K2J or K2T will
count for North Carolina toward the certificate offered for the event.
Nine of the 13 colonial states will have sat stations on during the event.
We're still looking for ops for Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania.
Pse note that the special event runs the calendar days of 1-4 July; per the
event web site, it officially runs out at 05/0400Z July.
Finally, for?any sat op who is a county hunter, I'll be running North Carolina
counties on both CW and SSB on 20, 30, and 40 meters as K2T throughout the
event period and then using my regular call afterward on the way home to
Florida. Spots of my HF county hunting operation will be available at
http://ch.w6rk.com/?and will include the county that I'm in at the spot time
shown. Although the grid square is not indicated on this web site, it shouldn't
be difficult to identify since the county I'm in is shown.
73,
Jim, ND9M / VQ9JC / K2T
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