Hi!
After a speaking engagement on Saturday (14 February) morning, I'm planning to work some passes from grid DM03 in or near Los Angeles before driving home. I had asked on Twitter if anyone needed any grids generally near the I-10 freeway between Phoenix and Los Angeles, and had one request for DM03. There is a fair amount of activity on SO-50 from DM03, but not so much on the SSB birds lately.
Depending on how the morning goes, I'm tentatively looking to be on the air starting with the 2122 UTC AO-7 pass - if AO-7 continues on its present pattern. After that pass, I see passes on AO-7, FO-29, and SO-50 I can try through 0030 UTC, when I would plan to start my 6+ hour drive back to Phoenix. I may also try to make packet QSOs through the ISS digipeater on the 2237 UTC and *possibly* the 0015 UTC pass.
For the ISS, please use APRS messaging if you are trying to work me. If you don't have a program capable of sending APRS messages (like a basic terminal program), it's not hard. Type in my APRS call WD9EWK-9, then a space followed by a colon, and then a brief one-line message. If the ISS digipeater hears your transmission, it will retransmit it and I should see it on my TH-D72A.
I will post updates during Saturday on my @WD9EWK Twitter feed. If you don't use Twitter, you can see my Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/WD9EWK using a web browser. I will also have my TH-D72A squawking my location via APRS as WD9EWK-9, and my APRS traffic should be visible at http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 among other places online.
QSOs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World after the trip, including the grid locator of wherever I happen to work from. If you would like a QSL card for QSOs on Saturday, please e-mail me with the QSO details. If you're in my log, I will be happy to send you a QSL card.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/