Just think: If you'd chosen to go to Central America or those environs, anti malarials would be the new morning ritual. Feeding that stuff to toddlers is a gas.
Family trips are great. Wife and I have a deal. I do child care, she puts up with ham radio. Not a bad trade. Lost count eons ago of the number of diapers changed. (twins...)
Mirkwood stands before you.
Remember, stay on the path!
Norm n3ykf
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Gabriel Zeifman gabrielzeifman@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, should be a great trip! Hope to work you guys on that pass! Being such short windows, I'm considering just giving everyone a "59" as the piece of information in the exchange, just to maximize everyone's chance. Have no fear, the grids will be in LoTW if I do end up running that way.
73, Gabe NJ7H
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Bryan KL7CN bryan@kl7cn.net wrote:
Yes, bravo Gabe! Well done!
-- bag
Bryan KL7CN/W6 bryan@kl7cn.net CM98, usually
On Apr 18, 2017, at 18:20, Mike Diehl diehl.mike.a@gmail.com wrote:
Gabe,
This is excellent news indeed! I can't think of a better way to follow
up activating DM02 with you than to get a chance to score Iceland from SoCal, a rare opportunity indeed.
I too hope everyone considers us out west who basically never get a
chance like this. Being a 5° max pass I will have to travel quite a ways to get an optimal chance and it would be a shame if someone flipped it.
Thanks again Gabe for taking roving to this level and thanks in advance
to the other ops for considering your friends out west trying to score rare DX.
73,
Mike Diehl AI6GS
On Apr 18, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Gabriel Zeifman gabrielzeifman@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello fellow bird folk,
Plans for my upcoming Europe trip are now finalized. I will be leaving direct to Europe from the K6G expedition, first ops being on 4/30.
First stop is a long layover in Iceland. BIKF airport happens to be
right
on the HP83/84 line, so I plan to operate from there. Scheduled times on the ground are 4/30 1345Z - 5/1 0740Z, subtract a bit for customs and security time, plus I'll probably be visiting the Oceanic Air Traffic Control Center at some point. West Coasters and ops in the center of NA take note, there is likely only ONE usable pass (sadly). This is the
1956Z
pass of AO-7, which has footprint over basically the entire continent. I sure hope the QRO lids remain at bay and don't flip it to mode A, this
is a
very rare opportunity. Plenty of passes possible for the East Coast and Europe.
After that, I will be heading to Amsterdam for four nights, then
Brussels
for one night. Not sure how much operating in each country but I hope to work at least one pass to the US from each towards my CCXD.
The second week will be in the British Isles. May 6-8 on Jersey, 8-10 on Guernsey, and 10-13 on Isle of Man. I will be staying on the west coast
of
each island to maximize possibilities for low passes to North America.
To wrap it up, I will do a day roving in Northern Ireland and the
Republic
of Ireland with George MI6GTY before heading back home.
This is a trip with my family, so I won't be on every pass. I will make
my
best effort to be on good North America bound passes, and it should be
easy
to cover Europe as well. AO-7 will be the primary NA bird, but some use
of
FO-29 will be possible.
All countries are CEPT TR61/01 and I have gotten LoTW certificates for
all
calls. All QSLing will be through LoTW, but if necessary I can get some cards made up, which will be available via direct NJ7H as usual.
Callsigns:
Iceland TF/NJ7H Netherlands PA/NJ7H Belgium ON/NJ7H England M/NJ7H (short layovers, not sure if will be used) Jersey MJ/NJ7H Guernsey MU/NJ7H Isle of Man MD/NJ7H Northern Ireland MI/NJ7H Republic of Ireland EI/NJ7H
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