ARRL NPOTA Activation of President’s Park (The White House) – August 5th & August 6th

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]
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Day Objects AOS (U) LOS Period maxEl AZ
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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

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.

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