[amsat-bb] End of an Era, NJ7H Final Rove

[Bill Dillon]

All the best Gabe in this new chapter of your life and roving.  I
appreciate all the new grids you've added to my collection, and look
forward to adding some Alaskan grids!

73 de Bill, KG5FQX

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Gabriel Zeifman <gabrielzeifman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mac,
>
> I’m very glad to help! I remember that pass last year, if I recall just a
> little after Field Day, and I remember that 100th on some grid line in the
> middle of nowhere. It should be no problem to get you Alaska in the next
> couple weeks!
>
> I’ll still be roving around, just way the heck up there now! Maybe a bear
> too? I should be able to get around the CONUS occasionally, we’ll see
> though.
>
> 73,
> Gabe “Harambe of the Yukon” Zeifman
> NJ7H/VE6NJH
>
> > On Oct 23, 2017, at 10:46 PM, Mac A. Cody <maccody at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Gabe,
> >
> > I just wanted to chime in, as well, to express my thanks for all
> > of the roving you have done and grid squares you've helped me
> > earn.  You were my first satellite QSO (as KM4RTS) and I got my
> > first grid square.  You also helped me get my 100th grid square
> > (seems fitting).  There have been many more both before and
> > after the 100th.  Now I hope that you will help me earn my first
> > grid square in Alaska!
> >
> > I called you 'Rover Extraordinare'.  Now, perhaps you should be
> > called 'Harambe of the Yukon'!  Is that a wolf howling in the
> > distance or someone calling 'CQ satellite'?
> >
> > Good luck and safe journeys, my friend.  I hope to hear your new
> > call sign on the satellites soon!
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Mac / AE5PH
> >
> >
> >> On 10/23/2017 07:48 PM, Gabriel Zeifman wrote:
> >> Thanks all! As Soren noted, this is definitely the beginning of a new
> era! Only NJ7H will end roving, Gabe the Lunatic will live on (as long as I
> don’t perish on an ice road on the way)! I do plan to activate many Alaskan
> and Canadian grids in the near future, and, dare I say, UA0. Juneau is
> undoubtedly remote (only access by air and sea), so for most days I’ll be
> isolated to CO28, but I will no doubt make many excursions. I know at some
> point in the spring I’ll be doing some simulator training in Anchorage.
> I’ll definitely get around, so my northern roving is just beginning! There
> are ferries and seaplanes and ASA flights leaving from Juneau every day, so
> I’ll be able to get around! The terrain in Juneau itself will definitely
> pose a challenge, but I’ll be doing my best to find the good spots to work
> from and make sure anyone theoretically within range and capability gets
> Alaska and CO28 on satellite!
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Gabe
> >> NJ7H/VE6NJH
> >>
> >>> On Oct 23, 2017, at 7:30 PM, Ronald G. Parsons <w5rkn at w5rkn.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Congratulations on your exams and your new position. Good wishes for
> your CO28 era.
> >>> And thanks for all those grids.
> >>> I assume you will still be making visits to Austin. I hope to see you
> on some of those visits.
> >>>
> >>> Ron W5RKN
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:57:37 -0500
> >>> From: Gabriel Zeifman <gabrielzeifman at gmail.com>
> >>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> >>> Subject: [amsat-bb] End of an Era, NJ7H Final Rove
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> >>>
> >>> Hello fellow bird chaser, sky talkers, and and antenna pointers,
> >>>
> >>> I am very glad to announce that I have passed the FAA Academy in
> Oklahoma City! Tomorrow morning (Oct 24th) I will leave Oklahoma for the
> final time heading far west. As hoped, I have been assigned to Alaska!
> Specifically, Juneau in CO28.
> >>>
> >>> ...
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