[amsat-bb] W3ZM/9 FM ops in EN50, EN60, EM59, EM69 Fri 7/19 through Sun 7/21

[John Stone]

Hi,
  I'm planning to operate as W3ZM/9 this weekend from Friday through
Sunday, with updates posted on twitter:
  https://twitter.com/KC9VGG

Tentative plan outline:
On Friday daytime passes I will be on the road traveling, but I hope to
stop and try and operate at least one pass (AO-91/92 or SO-50) handheld
while I'm driving in EM59 or EM58.  Friday evening I'll be operating the
late night passes of AO-91 and AO-92 from EN50.

Saturday I'll have to work the first couple of mid-day passes from EN50,
then I'll be quickly heading over to EN60 asap from there.  If everyone
already has EN50, I could skip the mid-day SO-50 pass to hit the road to
EN60, EM59 or EM69 for the AO-92 and AO-91 passes.  For the late night
passes I'll have to operate in EN50.

On Sunday, assuming cooperative weather, I plan to try and operate the
daylight passes from one or more grid lines among EN50, EN60, EM59 and
EM69.  I'll depend on how my recon for good operating locations turns out.
If people favor a particular grid or grid line, that would be useful to
know before I scout operating locations on Saturday.

Variables:
Scattered thunderstorms on Sunday 7/21.
To operate AO-92 on L-band I will have to lug my IC-9700 out for use with
handheld antennas since that's all I've got for L-band presently.
I haven't worked PO-101 yet, but it's in my radios and I'll keep an eye out
for it and work it if the the transponder is active.

I will update on twitter as things progress.

73,
  John Stone, KC9VGG EN50