[InHam] Heads Up - Who needs Alaska?

[KB9BVN]

This is not a bulletin...just a heads up:

W1AW/KL7 to Operate from Arctic Circle -- Just 300 miles south of the 
Alaskan Arctic Ocean -- where the Arctic Circle crosses the Dalton Highway 
(66 degrees, 33 minutes north) -- W1AW/KL7 will be on the air (grid square 
BP56) July 26-August 10 on all bands from 160-6 meters.

This ARRL 2008 Alaska State Convention Special Event Station plans to run 
two HF stations operating CW, SSB and digital, one satellite station and one 
station devoted to 146.52 MHz. The Alaskan summer skies are ablaze with gray 
line-enhanced propagation effects, providing six to eight hour spurts of 
activity to most of the ham radio world. W1AW/KL7 plans to be active from 
0600 UTC-1400 UTC to maximize gray line propagation.

>From Alaska, signals will take off in both directions at the same time: 
Europe to the East on one side, with Asia to the West on the other side. For 
an illustration of how Arctic gray line propagation works, see page 21 in 
the August 2008 issue of QST. The 2008 Alaska ARRL Convention will run from 
August 1-4, 2008 in Anchorage.

Information provided by Bill Balzarini, KL7BB