Hi!

John K8YSE showed up on AO-51 and SO-50 this evening from a campground at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, in grid DM31. There has been very little satellite from that grid in recent years, especially considering that most of DM31 is in Mexico, and almost all of it is in a desert that is inhospitable in summer. I'm sure there are a bunch of satellite operators that appreciate his efforts to make DM31 a little less rare.

I spoke to John after the AO-51 and SO-50 passes between 0030 and 0100 UTC tonight. As he announced previously, he will be down there through Wednesday morning's AO-51 passes. I asked him if he had any way to get on at least AO-16. John said that he does not have anything to receive SSB, so he will only be on the two FM birds. So, if you want to get DM31 in your log, John will be more than happy to make that contact with you.

73!

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