Hi! A quick detour on my way to Dayton... OK, a huge detour on my way to Dayton, about 300 miles/500km driving after flying from Phoenix to Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon. I will work several passes this morning from somewhere in EN82, starting with an eastern AO-7 pass around 0820 UTC. I will operate as VA7EWK/3, for my first time on satellites from Ontario (and this grid). I will be in Dayton late Thursday afternoon, in time to make the traditional pre-Hamvention Thursday evening AMSAT gathering at Tickets Pub, and hoping for no huge delays going back to the States (no line for the bridge from Detroit, but the border formalities entering Canada tonight took 90 minutes!).
Even though I am currently in Canada, I am still using WD9EWK-9 as my APRS call. I put both of my calls in a text field which goes out with every transmission, to have a legal ID on both sides of the border. My track should be visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 I have already obtained a new Logbook of the World certificate for VA7EWK/3, so I can upload QSOs to that system. If you want a QSL card for a QSO with VA7EWK/3, please e-mail me with the QSO details. As always, I'm happy to send cards out for my trips, without first receiving a card and/or SASE. Please do NOT send a VA7EWK/3 QSL request to a Canadian address. I have a station address in British Columbia on file with the Canadian licensing authority, Industry Canada, but cards mailed to BC will take a while to be forwarded to me. If you want to mail me a card, please send it to the address in Arizona for WD9EWK. Also read my @WD9EWK Twitter feed - or go to http://twitter.com/WD9EWK if you don't do Twitter - for updates. And maybe some photos with the tweets from here. 73! Patrick VA7EWK/WD9EWK - Windsor, Ontario 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
