Hi!
Following up on this announcement that showed up in this weekend's ANS bulletin...
The Central Arizona DX Association (CADXA) is very pleased to announce their special event operation in celebration of the Arizona Centennial during the week of February 13-19th, 2012.
They will be using the callsign of the late Senior Senator, and Arizona native son, Barry M. Goldwater, K7UGA.
Individual CADXA members will be operating from their home sta- tions located throughout Arizona during that week using the call- sign K7UGA.
However, only special operating locations from Tucson, Prescott and Phoenix will be on the air celebrating the 100th anniversary on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012.
Operations will be on all amateur bands (160-2 meters); and will be using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and Satellite modes.
I hope to make time to be on some satellite passes from a location in Phoenix on 14 February using the K7UGA call sign. I received the OK from the CADXA to use K7UGA on the satellites during this week-long celebration. I will post more about specific passes I hope to work on this day, and the first part of the week of 13-19 February 2012, when we are closer to mid-February.
At the end of that week (Friday and Saturday, 17-18 February 2012), I will use the K7UGA call sign for my on-air satellite demonstrations from the Yuma (Arizona) Hamfest, which is also serving as the 2012 ARRL Southwestern Division Convention. The hamfest site is the Yuma County Fairgrounds, along 32nd Street across the street from Yuma International Airport and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and south of the I-8 freeway (grid DM22qq). I posted some information about this on AMSAT's online calendar of events:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/eventDetail.php?eID=629
and the hamfest's web site has more details:
As mentioned in the ANS bulletin, QSL requests for K7UGA QSOs during that week - including the satellite activity - will be handled by the designated QSL manager, Bob K7BHM:
A picture of the K7UGA QSL card that stations will receive is on the QRZ.com link above.
Thanks in advance go to the Yuma Amateur Radio Hamfest Organization (yes, a group whose sole purpose is to run this hamfest!) for providing AMSAT an indoor space at the hamfest for the 4th consecutive year, along with letting me run outside for the demonstrations with my portable gear. Demonstrations will be on FM and SSB satellites both days, weather permitting. I plan to give a satellite-related presentation at some point during the two-day event, but the date/time and location on the fairgrounds site will be posted on the hamfest's web site sometime between now and mid-February.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/