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Senior Senator Barry M. Goldwater, K7UGA |
February Arizona Centennial Special Event Plans Satellite Operation
The Central Arizona DX Association (CADXA) is very pleased to
announce their special event operation in celebration of the
Arizona Centennial during the week of February 13-19th, 2012.
K7UGA Satellite Operation
Using the callsign of the late Senior Senator, Barry M. Goldwater,
K7UGA, CADXA members will be operating from stations located
throughout Arizona during that week. Special operating locations
from Tucson, Prescott and Phoenix will be on the air celebrating
the 100th anniversary on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. They will be
on all amateur bands (160-2 meters) and will be using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and Satellite modes.
Arizona's AMSAT Field Ops coordinator Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK / VA7EWK
announced satellite operations using the K7UGA callsign:
• Watch for announcements on amsat-bb for the specific passes WD9EWK
plans to operate using the K7UGA callsign on February 14.
• Patrick plans to use the K7UGA call sign for his on-air satellite
demonstrations from the Yuma, Arizona Hamfest on February 17-18,
2012. More information about this is on AMSAT's online calendar
of events:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/eventDetail.php?eID=629
• Also refer to http://www.qrz.com/db/k7uga for additional info.
All K7UGA QSL requests go to Bob Davies - K7BHM (qrz.com) with an
SASE. Additional information is posted on the CADXA Web site at:
http://www.cadxa.org
Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club W7A Satellite Operation
Rick Tejera, K7TEJ says the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club will be
operating a special event station for the Arizona Centennial as well on
the weekend of Feb 11-12, 2012. Rick plans to operating on as many
FM satellite passes as possible during the event using the W7A call.
Thanks to Amsat, Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK and Rick Tejera, K7TEJ
for the above information
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