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[Matthew Robbins]

Mike,

    I wouldn't give up hope just yet.  Usually you can catch an early
afternoon flight without too much difficulty.  I recommend you keep an
eye on available flights to see what kind of a start/finish time you
need to make it work.

    Here's the light data for Sacramento, which should be nearly
identical to Tahoe:

For Mon, Sep 17 2007 PDT (GMT-7)
Midday at:            12:59
Length of day:        12:22

Naut  Twilight Start: 05:51
Sunrise:              06:49

Sunset:               19:11
Naut  Twilight End:   20:09

With sunrise at 6:49am, it might be possible to have a start as early
as 7:30 or 8.    I don't remember the drive time to Reno or
Sacramento.  Sacramento is probably the cheapest airport with a
reasonable drive.  A flight departure time of 2 or 3pm might be enough
to make it work. Reno might work as early as 1pm (although my
experience says Reno flights are expensive).

The big question is whether the organizers want to go to the trouble
to get transmitters out that early (and whether it's reasonable to ask
them to).

Matthew
Cincinnati

On 6/12/07, Mike (KA5CVH) Urich <mike at ka5cvh.com> wrote:
> Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> > Championships - Friday - Sunday, September 14-16, 2007
>
> Mike wrote
>
> Our company annual meeting starts bright and early on Monday 17 Sept in
> Orlando.  Therefor Sunday _HAS_ to be a travel day for me otherwise
> Chase, KC5MPK, and I would be there.