[amsat-bb] WD9EWK's tentative operating schedule (31 May-1 June)

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Hi all!

Here is a tentative plan for my satellite operating on Saturday
31 May (into early Sunday 1 June, UTC)...

>From the Prescott (Arizona) hamfest in grid DM34...

1439-1454 UTC - AO-51 145.920/435.300 MHz FM repeater
1619-1631 UTC - AO-51 145.920/435.300 MHz FM repeater

I hope to hear - and work - some of the other hamfests that 
will have stations on the air.  

I may also be able to try a VO-52 pass at 1754-1807 UTC, as 
I will have a portable all-mode satellite station at the 
hamfest.  If you hear me on VO-52, please be patient with me.  
I am not set up for computer control of my radios (FT-817ND 
for TX, AOR AR8200Mk2B for RX) yet.  I know this setup is good
enough to put signals through VO-52 from earlier tests.  

>From the hamfest or somewhere else in the Prescott area, still
in grid DM34...

2128-2135 UTC - AO-27
2136-2148 UTC - SO-50

>From somewhere in grid DM35 or possibly on the DM34/DM35 grid 
boundary north of Prescott near the I-40 freeway...

2308-2315 UTC - AO-27
2315-2329 UTC - SO-50

I should have more than enough time to work these two passes
at the DM34/DM35 boundary where I operated from on 19 April:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35+0.00+n+112+23.132+w&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=34.288992,-112.412109&spn=3.830102,7.734375&t=h&z=7

since this would leave me more than 2 hours to make the 
110-mile/177km drive from that spot to Kingman for the evening
AO-51 passes.  

>From the DM25/DM35 grid boundary, in or near Kingman AZ...

0149-0204 UTC - AO-51 145.880/435.150 MHz FM repeater
0329-0342 UTC - AO-51 145.880/435.150 MHz FM repeater

Since the two V/U FM repeater configuration on AO-51 is active,
I'm hoping to put it to some good use for these passes while I
am in an area with little satellite activity.  

73!



Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK 
http://www.wd9ewk.net/