Hi!
The ARRL just released the July issue of their National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) newsletter for National Park Service staff and volunteers. These newsletters are at:
http://www.arrl.org/npota-for-nps
and the July issue is available at:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/NPOTA-News/NPOTA-July2016.pdf
On the last page of this month's newsletter is a short mention of one way to deal with an "uncooperative ionosphere" - work satellites. It shows Fernando NP4JV working a satellite from the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona. If you follow Fernando on Twitter - he's @NP4JV, or visit http://twitter.com/NP4JV to see his Twitter activity - you would have seen the photo that appear in this newsletter on 1 July, when he went up there and worked some passes. Congratulations, Fernando!
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK