Wyatt,
Thanks very much for all the great contacts and new grids. You did a great job! I appreciate it!
Jeff, NX9B and Kevin, N4UFO generously kept me on the loop every time during your rover operation. It was an exciting hunting!
Thank you guys!
73!
Hector, CO6CBF EL92sd
-----Mensaje original----- De: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] En nombre de wyattdirks Enviado el: domingo, 14 de julio de 2013 1:20 Para: amsat-bb@amsat.org Asunto: [amsat-bb] Ac0ra trip
Well just another four hours of driving till we get home. Well I am riding now but will drive the last stretch through Iowa. By the time we get home we will have been on the road for about 22.5 hours.
Any way I just did the tally and I have 238 contacts in the log from 25 different grids and from 6 different states.
A few of the high lights of the trips as far as sat ops go was working vo52 from two grids while mobile. For the First three minutes of the pass I was in dn91 then passed into dn90 and worked three station from each grid.
Also at the last minute I decided to take and hour detour north off of i80 to the en01/00 gridline just north of grand island to work quite a few stations.
And to all those who worked me on fo29 while I was mobile I am sorry for the weak signals. My half wave mobile whip got damaged early trip by a big bird at 80mph and it never worked right after that. For a while it didn't work at all but with some roadside repairs i got it working to get us through the trip.
Also if you working me you might have noticed sometimes I signed mobile and sometimes I signed portable. Well this was for a reason that is quite obvious. When I signed my I was using my ft857 with halfwave mobile antenna for 2m and three el arrow for 70cm. Mostly was semi duplex while mobile but sometimes used the ft817 for rx.
When I signed portable I was using the ft897/817 pair with an arrow antenna which performed flawlessly. Well all but my battery charger for the ft897 batteries stopped working which wasn't an issue because I had a back up 35amphr gelcel along. Charged everything while driving through inverter and once in the hotel room.
If you want qsls for grids which I assume some will of you could send a sase with the contacts you want with the grid I was In writen on the card that would be good. It might take a little bit for cards to get back out as I might need to get some made. But it shouldn't take more then a month or two.
Thanks to all who followed me along the trip!
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