Help Celebrate AMSAT’s 50th Anniversary – Take W3ZM on the Road!

Leading up to the 2019 AMSAT 50th Anniversary Space Symposium and General Meeting, to be held in Arlington, VA, October 18 – 20, 2019, AMSAT’s call sign, W3ZM, will operate from all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.  Not only is this your chance to get Worked All States-Satellites under the W3ZM call sign, but, also, your chance to be a part of this historic effort.

Note:  When operating outside of the “3” call area, operators will append the W3ZM call sign with “/(call area).” As an example, someone operating from Texas will use W3ZM/5; from Hawaii, W3ZM/KH6; from Alaska, W3ZM/KL7; and from Puerto Rico, W3ZM/KP4.

To make this happen – We need your help!  Please volunteer to get on the air and activate your State, using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, as well as to cover those States without an active AMSAT Member.  Activations of other United States Territories (i.e. Guam, American Samoa, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) are also welcome.

To volunteer and operate using AMSAT’s W3ZM call sign, you must:

• Be a current member of AMSAT
• Obtain permission by emailing AMSAT VP of User Services, specifying the requested date(s) and location(s)
• Submit an ADIF log of contacts made for upload to LoTW by AMSAT, as instructed in your notice of approval to use the W3ZM call sign.  When providing you log, please include the state, county, and grid square(s) worked.

Robert Bankston, KE4AL, AMSAT VP of User Services, ke4al (at) amsat (dot) org