Hi John,

Just to let you know I have flown SATA airlines. They began in 1990 as Ocean Air and in 1998 was renamed SATA Airlines. They fly from Europe and the US to Portugal, the Azores and Maderia. They are pretty good and serve real food :). I spent 2 weeks on Sao Miguel Island, Azores back in 2008. The island is beautiful and it's well worth it to spend at least a week there. My Mom was born there and immigrated to the US back in 1950. She had never been back until I took her there. The trip was basically for my Mom BUT I just had to get on the air so I did operate CU2/WA1S and made over 1,000 contacts operating a couple hours each night with my ICOM 7000 and Carolina Windom antenna strung up only about 20 feet off the ground. The Azores is under the CEPT agreement.

Ann WA1S

From: John Laney <k4bai@att.net>
To: secc <secc@contesting.com>; contest@alabamacontestgroup.org; sedxc@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:25 PM
Subject: [SECC] Announcement: Work the Azores and Possibly Win a Trip There

Here's an interesting operating activity (can't be a contest since it
includes 17 meters!). If you don't mind flying an airline you never
heard of, there is a possibility of a nice trip if you are lucky enough
to work at least five of the islands and your card is drawn in a
lottery. Or just a good chance to work some fairly rare prefixes and
all the CU - Azores IOTA island groups and get full color QSL cards via
the bureau.

73, John, K4BAI.
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