Hi! I'm flying out of Phoenix tomorrow morning to Indianapolis, and will be in Dayton Thursday evening before the start of the Hamvention for the AMSAT gathering at Tickets Pub. Along with some time working the AMSAT demonstration station outside the arena, I plan on working other passes outside of the Hamvention between Thursday (15 May) morning and midday Monday (19 May) from wherever I happen to be at that time - including some AO-7 (and possibly FO-29) passes where Europe is in the footprint with me. Even if I'm waking up at 0-dark-30 to get outside for those passes. I'm already planning a very early Thursday morning for an AO-7 pass around 0820 UTC +/- to start my operating out there.
If you are in Europe and have Dayton in the footprint on a particular pass, please e-mail me directly. I would enjoy the chance to work you, and will be happy to provide contact information to help line up a potential QSO. I did this in 2010, working OZ1MY and 2E1EUB on the same AO-7 pass in SSB from outside Dayton on the EN70/EN80 grid boundary, so I know it is possible with my portable station. I'll try to post updates here on the -BB for my operating, whether at the Hamvention or somewhere else. My @WD9EWK Twitter feed - you can read it at http://twitter.com/WD9EWK if you don't do Twitter yourself - will probably be a great way to see the latest updates, since I know I can send SMS messages to Twitter without an Internet connection from almost anywhere I'll go. I'll have my TH-D72A with me, and run APRS as WD9EWK-9 as I drive. I should start showing up on APRS tomorrow afternoon, which will be visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 if my APRS packets find their way to an Internet gateway (and be the best way to see where I end up on Wednesday evening, before that early AO-7 pass Thursday morning). I will try to upload my QSOs to Logbook of the World daily, and each QSO will have the proper information for my QTH at that time. I have QSL card designs ready to print after I return home next week, and for some locations I've already printed QSL cards. If you work me in the next few days and then see me at Dayton, I'll be happy to write out a QSL card on the spot - or e-mail me the QSO details, and I'll send you a card after I'm back home. If we don't work on a satellite pass in the next few days, I'll be happy to meet you at Dayton. :-) 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
