[amsat-bb] WD9EWK @ DM31, next Saturday (2 February 2019)

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Hi!

I will make a drive out to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and the
rarely-heard grid DM31, next Saturday (2 February 2019). I hope to be out
there by 1600 UTC, staying until sunset - approximately 6pm local time, or
0100 UTC. I may try to park on the DM31/DM32 grid boundary for some passes,
but more than likely I will be somewhere near the national monument's
visitor center - a few miles north of the USA/Mexico border along Arizona
route 85. This area is in the northeast corner of grid DM31, Pima County.
I will work FM and SSB satellite passes that fall within that timeframe,
along with some FalconSat-3 passes.

Being near the international border, coverage by the mobile phone and
terrestrial APRS networks gets spotty. I hope to be able to send updates
from DM31 using my @WD9EWK Twitter account - visible in a web browser at:

http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

I don't think I will have APRS coverage near the border, but much of my
travels next Saturday should appear on APRS as WD9EWK-9:

http://aprs.fi/wD9EWK-9

All contacts made from DM31 will be uploaded to Logbook of the World after
the day-trip. If you would like to receive a QSL card for contacts made
with WD9EWK in DM31, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you
are in the log, I'll send you a card. No need to send me QSL cards or SASEs
to get my QSL card.

Thanks, and 73!





Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK