Satellite Operation From Canary Islands Special Event Station

EG8ISS in the Canary Islands will be active on both HF and the Amateur Radio satellites between between February 12 through March 11 from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Activity is to celebrate/publicize the first ARISS (International Space Station) contact with one of the "Institute for Technological Development and Innovation in Communications" (IDeTIC) facilities on campus.

The special event station will be on the HF bands, 40-10 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY, PSK31 and SSTV. Also, activities are planned for VHF (2m FM local and R7 repeater) and the satellites (AO-27, SO-50, AO-51 and VO-52).

There is a special QSL card designed for this event that will be automatically mailed to your QRZ.com address.

More info is available on the QRZ.com under EG8ISS. A Twitter page is also available at:
http://twitter.com/eg8iss

[ANS thanks Ted, K7TRK and the SouthGateARC News site for the above information]

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