This NPOTA contact was successful. I made 11 contacts and my last contact was CY9C who I never contacted anywhere else.
It was kind of funny listening to the recording, because at first I thought I made only 10 contacts, and CY9C was the last one, which would have been a perfect story, but later I realized Paul, N8HM used his personal call *and* the AMSAT NA club call, W3ZM to contact me. So I actually made 11 contacts. Better safe than sorry.
Thanks to all the stations who helped me make this activation successful:
01) KO4MA EL88 02) NAHM/W3ZM FM18 03) WA5KBH 04) W5CBF EM30 05) W4FS FM06 06) K5ND EM12 07) KC9ELU EM79 08) KI4RO EM88 09) N8RO EM00 10) CY9C FN97 11) +1 for N8HM as W3ZM
I took some cool pics of the Bodie Island Lighthouse I was next to and the Milky Way Galaxy. It was a beautiful evening:
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73, John Brier KG4AKV
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:26 PM, John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
I will activate Cape Hatteras National Seashore SS04 on the 0354 UTC SO-50 pass. It's 86 degrees in elevation for me.
Note earlier I said cape lookout. I was cofused. It will be Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
73 John Brier KG4AKV
On Aug 27, 2016 12:47 AM, "John Brier" johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be at Nags Head, North Carolina Saturday through Monday and I plan to activate some of the National Parks while I'm there. There are three nearby: Fort Raleigh, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Cape Lookout National Seashore.
I will try to activate them on SO-50, and possibly AO-85 if I can get into it (the last time I tried I could barely get in but I think my HT wasn't fully charged).
Sorry I can't provide exact passes at this time, I'm just not sure when I'll be able to do it as I'll be there for other reasons than just sats ;-)
I'll try to send out notifications of passes when I know on amsat-bb and/or Twitter:
73, John Brier KG4AKV