Retired Controls Engineer and ham radio licensee since 1967.
Surprise, AZ
Joined December 2018
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WizardOfZid (Rusty WA8ZID) retweeted
Snow Week taking place at the Arizona Science Center in Downtown Phoenix news.yahoo.com/snow-week-tak… via @YahooNews
Been off air with a bunch of T-storms in the "Valley of the Sun". Maybe tomorrow. Did catch 199-203 grids last week so a new endorsement for the VUCC is coming.
Finally caught NA1SS tonight on the 0038z ISS pass. W7ASC at the Science Center where I volunteer caught them last month and I always thought my home station was a little too low profile but timing and conditions count for a lot. It was my time.
Finally got back on satellites today from home. Been active at W7ASC but that was it. Worked 5 on old favorite FM bird AO-91. Back at the ASC tomorrow for both FM and linears.
WizardOfZid (Rusty WA8ZID) retweeted
We made the top 50 for best places to visit in Arizona with kids—thanks, @MSN 🧪 msn.com/en-us/travel/tripide…
WizardOfZid (Rusty WA8ZID) retweeted
We had an out-of-this-world experience today—thanks to @NASA_Astronauts Kjell Lindgren 👨🚀 At 1:00 p.m. today, he made surprise contact with our Harkins Ham Shack radio from the @Space_Station!
Over a dozen families witnessed and participated in the 15-minute radio contact 📡
Here is why we are getting a satellite station fully operational at W7ASC, Arizona Science Center "8-year-old girl chats with ISS astronaut using ham radio"
cnn.com/2022/08/17/uk/girl-i…
Volunteered at AZ Science Center yesterday and got to use the Center's 9700 for several passes including 5 contacts on AO-91. Still need some practice on the linears but I did hear myself a couple of times.
W7ASC also received a grant for a new set of beams and new HF gear.
Our special event at ASC in just over 2 weeks on June 18. Stop in that Saturday with you kids or grandkids.
@k8yse thanks for the AO-91 contact from the W7ASC station at the AZ Science Center, WA8ZID at the mike. Slowing getting the Sat station back in operating shape TS-790 at 15 watts so should be good to go.
W7V is in the books with 532 contacts including 3 AO-92 contacts made during our 60th Anniversary BBQ. Work got in the way for more passes.
Got a new country, this time on 10m, EA9ACD. heard EA9ACE and EA9ACF as well from Ceuta & Melilla (N. Africa). Now to see if he confirms on LotW.
At W7ASC I found today that the 70 cm transmitter has problems. Only a few milliwatts that I can hear in another FM rig but certainly not enough for the transmission line losses. Hope to get it fixed soon but I only can work 2 meter uplink birds for now.
Just got DL82/92 from Jose, XE2YWH! Maybe 3 new grids today when ND0C is on. Been a dry spell but I've got 9 new grids in September so its been a big month.
3 weeks away from Special Event Station W7V for the 60th anniversary for the West Valley ARC (Sun City, AZ). I will try to get on a few FM passes for the 4 days, October 15-18 and try out a really short call! I'll be mobile on Saturday at the pot luck.
Not an especially rare grid but I will be at DM42 for the AO91/92 passes at 17:57z and 1819z today. On a project site in Eloy, AZ
Tomorrow will be my 1st time operating FM satellites at W7ASC demo station at the AZ Science Center. Plan to start on SO-50 at 1634z, the AO-92 at 1816 and AO-91 at 1826z.
May be a delay to enter contacts from W7ASC in DM33 as I don't have direct access to the logging software but we will get them in there before too long.