Hi!

After receiving a few comments to my post last week about my trip to the hamfest in Tucson on Saturday (22 October), I have decided to go to the DM51bx/DM52ba grid boundary in southeastern Arizona after the hamfest. I should be there in time for the following passes:

AO-51 2133 UTC AO-27 2147 UTC AO- 7 2220 UTC (should be in mode B for this pass) AO-51 2310 UTC

Depending on when the hamfest wraps up in the morning, I *may* be able to get out to the grid boundary in time for the AO-27 pass at approximately 2007 UTC. No guarantees on that. I will run APRS as WD9EWK-9 while on the road after the hamfest. You will be able to see my location at http://aprs.fi/wd9ewk-9 among other places on the net.

For the AO-7 pass, I tend to park around 145.960 MHz +/-. If I am not working anyone there, I will tune around and try to call anyone else who may be on the pass. I will miss not having FO-29 to work on this trip, but this AO-7 pass should cover most of North America for those wanting to work me in SSB.

As with my other trips, and also for the hamfest passes Saturday morning, I will be happy to send out QSL cards. There's no need to first mail me a card - just e-mail me with the QSO details. If you're in the log, I will drop a card in the mail. I will also upload all QSOs to the Logbook of the World system, once I am back home.

73!

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