Hi!

I'm slowly getting the hang of video and putting it online in a usable form. I have placed 3 videos on YouTube this evening. One video is of a demonstration from the Yuma (Arizona) hamfest on 20 February 2010 where Kevin KJ6DDS and I worked the microphone. Larry KI6YAA operated the video camera (my Nokia N900 phone). At the end of the video, a Marine Corps Harrier jump jet was making its approach to land at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, which is across the street from the hamfest site. That video can be seen at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyFsk9tFAc

The other two videos were from an AO-51 pass I worked as XE2/WD9EWK from grid DM21jw in northern Baja California on 19 February 2010 at 0019 UTC. On this afternoon, I was accompanied by Larry KI6YAA and Kevin KJ6DDS, and Alex XE2BSS/N2IX worked the video camera. We parked along the highway on the "Laguna Salada", a dry salty flat area near the Colorado River on the way toward the Gulf of California. The video had to be split into two parts, to comply with YouTube's 10- minute limit on video length. The first 7 minutes can be seen at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5-hL3SDig

The remaining 7:14 can be seen at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2yAMGeALc

When we were down at DM21jw, it was windy. XE2BSS tried his best to shield the phone/camera's mic from the wind, and allowing the speaker that was connected to my radio to be heard in the video. I worked several other passes from this location, all of which I have MP3 audio recordings of, but this was the one we decided to make a video of.

I hope to have the QSL cards from last month's trip to Baja California and the Yuma hamfest ready this week. I've received a lot of QSL requests already, especially for QSOs with DM21. :-) Please be patient, the cards will be on their way. And, eventually, the QSOs will make their way into ARRL's Logbook fo the World system (more on that in a separate message).

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/