Members of the Great South Bay ARC headed by Mike Sartoretti, KC2SYF, have obtained a permit from the National Park Service to operate from President’s Park (The White House) for the ARRL National Parks on the Air event. The operating location will be the southeast side of the Ellipse. The call sign for the operation will be KC2SYF and the park designator is DZ10.

Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, will be providing satellite operations and will be active on all voice satellites (SSB/FM) from 1400 UTC to 2100 UTC on Friday, August 5th and Saturday, August 6th. The pass list is below:

WinAos QTH: -77.0/38.9 T#: 14096 Sat.: 9 [Standard] ———————————————————- Day Objects AOS (U) LOS Period maxEl AZ ———————————————————- 05.08.2016 AO-85 14:50 15:03 13 25 177 – 045 05.08.2016 FO-29 15:29 15:42 13 20 125 – 001 05.08.2016 AO-85 16:30 16:44 14 44 228 – 027 05.08.2016 FO-29 17:13 17:27 14 48 181 – 341 05.08.2016 SO-50 17:47 17:58 11 18 342 – 108 05.08.2016 UKUBE-1 18:05 18:16 11 32 001 – 217 05.08.2016 AO-07 18:24 18:43 19 27 118 – 351 05.08.2016 SO-50 19:27 19:40 13 56 324 – 160 05.08.2016 AO-07 20:14 20:35 21 69 169 – 342 06.08.2016 AO-73 13:59 14:10 11 40 021 – 176 06.08.2016 AO-85 15:15 15:29 14 58 198 – 036 06.08.2016 AO-73 15:36 15:45 09 17 349 – 234 06.08.2016 FO-29 16:18 16:32 14 54 152 – 352 06.08.2016 UKUBE-1 16:46 16:57 11 31 025 – 171 06.08.2016 AO-85 16:57 17:09 12 22 252 – 021 06.08.2016 AO-07 17:27 17:42 15 12 089 – 356 06.08.2016 FO-29 18:04 18:17 13 16 208 – 330 06.08.2016 SO-50 18:12 18:25 13 38 335 – 131 06.08.2016 AO-07 19:15 19:35 20 55 143 – 348 06.08.2016 SO-50 19:53 20:04 11 21 313 – 183 05.08.2016 AO-07 20:14 20:35 21 69 169 – 342

Planned frequencies for the linear transponders are as follows:

AO-7B – 145.940 MHz AO-73 – 145.965 MHz FO-29 – 435.865 MHz UKube-1 – 145.945 MHz

In addition to satellite operations, there will also be two 100 watt HF stations operating split. Bands will be 40, 20, and possibly 10 meters as well as 2 meters simplex.

QSL via LoTW.