K4T DXpedition to EL84 Dry Tortugas

The K4T trip to EL84, Dry Tortugas takes place March 11-15 and they will have 2 stations to work the Amateur Radio satellites.

On the AMSAT bulletin board Mark N8MH writes:

Thanks to great organizing by Mike AC2V, we will have 2 full satellite stations and one portable setup (should it be needed).

We hope to work some CW on the linear birds, since some members of the team are CW aficionados and we'll have 2 stations. To help people find us, we'll probably work CW around the target frequencies listed, rather than at the bottom the transponder--but tune and listen.

We will be active on the following satellites with target frequencies listed as below:

Target Frequencies for K4T 11 March - 15 March 2010: Gridsquare EL84

Satellite     Downlink       Uplink
---------      ----------       -------
AO-7      145.960 USB     432.136 LSB (and CW)
AO-27    436.795 FM       145.850 FM
FO-29    435.860 USB      145.940 LSB (and CW)
SO-50    436.795 FM       145.850 FM
AO-51    435.150 FM       145.880 FM (primary)
AO-51    435.300 FM       145.920 FM (secondary if necessary)
VO-52    145.910 USB     435.240 LSB (and CW)
HO-68    435.760 USB     145.930 LSB (and CW)

Possible satellite passes (time in UTC) to work K4T are listed at this link; we'll try to work as many as possible, but we might not be able to realistically work EVERY pass on the list (we'll try) http://aroadventures.org/page24.html

There are thunderstorms possible, so we may need to shutdown a bit.

And don't forget the awesome HF/6M contacts you can make! Here is the HF bandplan: http://aroadventures.org/page22.html

And, we are dreaming about some meteor-scatter (EME? heh) using WSJT between passes, simplex operations, and band openings; we'll see.

Hope to work as many fellow AMSAT-BB folks as possible.

73!

Mark L. Hammond, N8MH

Further details at
http://aroadventures.org/page6.html

AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/