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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/2NOHCDKOOJGZJI6EYKXNP2L7TVJX5CS4/?format=api",
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        "address": "john (a) papays.com",
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    "sender_name": "John Papay",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  Lake Superior Grid Expedition Wrapup",
    "date": "2010-09-10T16:31:52Z",
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    "content": "Our month long excursion around Lake Superior and points\nnorth came to an end on September 8th.  We left on August\n3d.  The distance traveled was slightly over 5000 miles,\nworking in 32 grids on 168 satellite passes.\n\nNorthwest Ontario is really beautiful but it was difficult\nto find places to operate at times.  The back roads are cut\nthrough forests of tall trees and it makes working the birds\ndifficult to impossible.  We tried to find lakes where the road\nwas on the north side so we could see to the south.  Usually there\nwas some place to set up but not always.  EO20 and EO31 were not\nplanned but it worked out that we could operate from those grids.\nI doubt that EO20 has ever been activated on the birds.\n\nThe equipment worked well however the 5 element two meter beam\nhad a lot of vibration, especially on the dirt and gravel roads\nwhich caused two elements to break off.  They were repaired with\ncopper wire and later brass rod found at the Home Depot in Thunder\nBay.  The LVB tracker worked flawlessly and never lost its calibration.\nThis was quite surprising considering that the rotor was running\non a 500w inverter which was turned on and off hundreds of times.\nA serial port connection was used rather than the USB since I had an\nEdgeport 8 port serial to USB converter running the TS2000 and the\nGarmin V GPS.\n\nThe antenna setup created conversation wherever we stopped.  The locals\nwanted to know what it was for.  Some guessed tracking bear, wolf, moose,\netc.  Others thought we were storm chasers.  Another guessed we were\ndoing Google street view mapping.  Several hundred people were introduced\nto amateur radio satellite technology, and we got to chat with everyone\nand talk about what to see and where to camp.  We spent most every night\nin a tent except for the very end of the trip when the weather turned\nvery rainy.  We had a great time in Isle Royale National Park backpacking\nin a true wilderness setting.  There is a longer story about how we\noperated satellites there that will be published at a later date.  Isle\nRoyale is a very large island in Lake Superior where Moose and Wolves have\npriority over everybody else. We spent 5 days on the island.  The\nKenwood V7A, 7AH battery and ArrowII antenna were used for this\nportable operation.\n\nThe plan is to enter all of the qso's into a spreadsheet and print labels.\nSeveral different qsl cards will be printed to represent the different\nstates, Canada and perhaps Brockway Mountain and Isle Royale.  There is\nno need to send your cards to me although an SASE would be fine.  Everyone\nthat worked me will receive cards for every contact whether requested or\nnot.  Documentation will be provided for any grid line boundary operation\nif there are any requests from VUCC card checkers.  APRS data is available\non www.aprs.fi in areas where there were digi's.  I have gps track logs of\nthe entire trip showing date/time/lat/long.  I have recordings of most passes\nand also have recordings of AO-27 and AO-51 made from my home station which\noperated automatically during the trip.  This speaks to the reliability of\nSatPC32, and the rotor interface and audio recorder designed by my \nson, KD8CAO.\n\nThanks to everyone who worked me and provided encouragement during the\ntrip.  The TS2000 and antenna setup allowed me to work many more stations\nthat could have been worked with an HT and an Arrow.  There were many\ntimes where it was raining or dark which would have prevented operating\noutside.  Once the antennas were pointed north, it didn't matter as we\nwere inside the truck out of the elements.\n\nFinally, special thanks to the control teams of all of the satellites that\nkept things running smoothly, and to Alan Kung for having HO-68 on during\nthe central North America daylight passes.\n\nIf you are planning a vacation, consider taking some satellite\nequipment along.  You'll enjoy being sought after and you'll have\na new perspective on what it takes to do it. Thanks to all of those\nthat are already operating away from home so that all of us can add\nto our VUCC totals.\n\n73,\nJohn K8YSE\n\n\n\n\nJohn Papay\[email protected]\n\n",
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