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.