[amsat-bb] Last night's DM36 activity by AD7DB & N7JY

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Hi!

I received another e-mail from Dave AD7DB this morning,
following up on the quick stop he and his brother John
N7JY made in northwestern Arizona for an SO-50 pass
late last night.  It sounded like they enjoyed working
that pass from a rare spot.

Dave and John were driving from Utah back to southern
California, and found that they could stop in grid DM36
for one SO-50 pass last night.  DM36 covers much of the
Grand Canyon, along with portions of Arizona north of
the canyon and around the small section of I-15 that
connects Nevada and Utah.  Dave and John stopped at
milepost 12 along old US-91 (the highway between Las
Vegas and Salt Lake City, before I-15 was built), 3
miles north of Beaver Dam. This spot was in grid DM36aw.
Dave said they had a great view of the sky to work SO-50,
and also see some of the Geminid meteor shower last night.

Dave and John were using an older Kenwood TM-V7A
2m/70cm FM mobile transceiver, connected to an Elk
2m/70cm log periodic antenna, operating full-duplex.
This is the setup they have been using to work SO-50
lately.

While I was in the footprint, I heard AD7DB and N7JY
work several other stations after I worked AD7DB -
W5CBF and N0JY in Texas, AC0RA in Iowa, WN8QGV in
Michigan, and N4UFO in North Carolina.  Dave and John
are relatively new to working satellites, and did a good
job to hand out QSOs from that spot near the middle of
nowhere. :-) They will prepare QSL cards with grid DM36
and that location listed on the card, when they return
home.

Thanks to Dave and John for making the effort last night.
73!




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