Hi!

While I am in Las Vegas for this weekend's ARRL Nevada State Convention, I plan on doing some operating before and after the convention each day. I want to work some passes from the DM25/DM26 grid boundary, on the south end of Las Vegas, as well as from Lake Mead - a National Recreational Area, and a location that is part of the ARRL's National Parks on the Air event for 2016. So far, I have made one definite plan for my non-convention operating this weekend - an SO-50 pass on Saturday (30 April) morning just before 1400 UTC, at the DM25/DM26 grid boundary on the southern end of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Beyond this pass, I will look to work other passes in the early mornings and evenings in the Las Vegas area. I will also look to work some passes as I approach Las Vegas on Friday morning, and on my drive home Sunday afternoon. One plan is to stop in the Kingman area in northwestern Arizona, near the I-40 freeway, to work from grid DM35. If time permits, I would operate on the DM25/DM35 boundary in Kingman either around midday Friday or sometime Sunday afternoon.

For all of my trips to southern Nevada in the past several years, I have always operated at a single location - the DM25/DM26 grid boundary on the south end of the Las Vegas area. This will be one location I will work from during the weekend. I will also try to activate the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, southeast of Las Vegas, as part of the ARRL's National Parks on the Air activity during 2016. If an SO-50 or FO-29 pass line up with my travels, I may even try to work a pass from the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada" sign. The sign sits in the median of Las Vegas Boulevard, next to McCarran Airport and what some consider the "official" southern end of the Las Vegas Strip.

While traveling, I will use my TH-D72A HT for APRS to transmit my location, using the call sign WD9EWK-9. One way to keep up with my travels will be to visit APRS.FI:

http://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9

I will also post updates here on the AMSAT-BB, as well as my @WD9EWK Twitter feed. If you don't use Twitter, you can still read my posts on Twitter at this link:

http://twitter.com/WD9EWK

As always, I will upload these QSOs, as well as the QSOs I make during the ARRL Nevada State Convention, to Logbook of the World. If you would like to receive a QSL card, please e-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you are in my log, I would be happy to send you a QSL card.

73!

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