Hi!
I will be at the Cochise Amateur Radio Association's annual Larry Warren Hamfest on Saturday (5 May) morning in Sierra Vista, Arizona. This, like most Arizona hamfests, is a half-day event, and I will have an AMSAT table there along with on-air satellite demonstrations. More information about the hamfest is available at:
http://www.k7rdg.org/HamfestFlyer2012.html
It looks like I will have only AO-7 in mode B and VO-52 available for the demonstrations Saturday morning. I will be ready for those two satellites with my portable all-mode satellite station.
After the hamfest, depending on when things wrap up, I am looking at paying a quick visit to one or two of the rarely-heard grids in southeastern Arizona. Or I might try to work from along I-10 at the Arizona/New Mexico state line. To see where I'm going, I will run APRS as WD9EWK-9 while driving. You can see my travels at (among other places) http://aprs.fi/wd9ewk-9
If you work WD9EWK on Saturday - at the hamfest, or wherever I stop after the hamfest - and would like a QSL card to confirm the contact, please e-mail me the QSO details. No need to send me a card or SASE first. If you're in the log, I will be happy to send you a card. I will also upload my Saturday QSOs to Logbook of the World.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
I will be at the Cochise... Hamfest on (5 May) in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Yearly reminder: Everyone involved with a hamfest should consider:
1) Is the LAT/LONG on the web page?
2) Is there an APRS object marking the HAMFEST on the air 2 weeks in advance marking the spot so that drivers within 100 miles can just drive their APRS radios right to the spot.
3) Does the APRS object contain the talk-in freq in APRS format so that drivers only press the TUNE button on their APRS radios to instantly QSY to the talk in.
Is the APRS object in accordance with the standard APRS HAMFEST format so that it is consistent and can be found trivially on APRS clients by doing a search for all "HFEST*" such as http://map.findu.com/hfest*
Please see http://aprs.org/hamfest.html
More than one hamfest have I simply stumbled on by being out driving and having it pop up on my radio with everything I needed to just drive right to it. The number in the object indicates the day of the month so old or future hamfests are easily noted. Our object is HFEST-5th. You must make everything after the HFEST unique if you want it to appear on global searches. Other hamfests on the 5th can use HFEST-05x where x is your choice. Or HFEST-5xy if Xy can better match your club or area... etc.
Again, not just APRS users but anyone with a smart phone can also find these hamfests using the above web link.
Bob, Wb4aPR
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Bob Bruninga -
Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)