[amsat-bb] Anyone need some grids around Arizona?

[Tanner Jones]

Patrick,

Mark me down for DM54/DM55. As always, thanks for roving!

73,
Tanner

W9TWJ 

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> On Jul 14, 2019, at 1:46 PM, Fernando Ramirez via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm sure that a lot of the new ops will need some or all of those grids on
> sats. Is there a possibility to try 6m from those locations?
> 
> 73
> 
> Fernando, NP4JV
> 
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 11:30 AM Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) via
> AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> It's mid-summer, time to make trips away from the desert to cooler places
>> and work satellites. I have already made a couple of trips north to work
>> from DM34 and DM35 in June. Are there other grids that people need around
>> northern Arizona? Options include...
>> 
>> DM34/DM44 grid boundary: along I-17, near Camp Verde AZ
>> DM35/DM45 grid boundary: north or south of I-40, west of Flagstaff AZ
>> DM54/DM55 grid boundary: along I-40, east of Holbrook AZ
>> 
>> I know there have been some travelers working satellites across
>> northern Arizona, but it always seems like those grids are new
>> for someone whenever they show up on the satellites. I have been
>> to those places many times in the past, and enjoy making return
>> trips to put them on the air.
>> 
>> I could go to other places that don't have the cooler weather, like the
>> DM23/DM24 boundary in western Arizona, or the DM52/DM53 boundary in
>> southeastern Arizona - places I have visited already, earlier this year.
>> Something like DM32 is not far from the Phoenix area, and can get there
>> in less than an hour's drive. After two trips to grid DM31 in February,
>> and the very hot temperatures down there in summertime, I will probably
>> not try to get back down there until sometime after summer is done.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance, and 73!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
>> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
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