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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/34IMGDRMVAOTP57QLJXJOF6KE3UDT35M/?format=api",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK on AO51 this afternoon with VX-8GR/long duckie",
    "date": "2010-08-29T00:59:09Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nOn the AO-51 pass that just went by around 0012 UTC this afternoon,\nI tried something I do with any HT I get - work satellites.  I picked\nup a Yaesu VX-8GR at Dayton 3 months ago, and have started using it \nfor APRS.  Since it has two VFOs on it, I did not have to program any\nmemory channels to get it working for satellites.  It is not a full-\nduplex radio, but it can work.  I use a Diamond SMA-BNC adapter on it\nall the time (a well-designed adapter, which makes a secure physical\nconnection to the radio), and put a Diamond RH77CA 2m/70cm long duckie \non it.  Since I did not have my Sony digital audio recorder with me, I \nused a recorder app on my N900 phone, with the phone sitting in my \nshirt pocket and the microphone hole pointing up.  And I was doing this \non a west-facing balcony at my office in Scottsdale AZ (DM43al).\n\nThis pass was a nice one for Arizona, with maximum elevation at 64\ndegrees to the west.  The footprint still covered a significant \nchunk of North America.  Once the satellite got up to about 25 to\n30 degrees elevation, I could hear it easily with the squelch wide\nopen on the receive VFO.  I made a few QSOs, including one with John\nK8YSE still on his road trip.  Thanks to everyone for the QSOs, and\nthanks to John for all your work putting on a lot of rarely-heard\ngrids in that part of North America!  \n\nWith this radio, I had to change from one VFO to the other before \nand after transmitting.  Since this radio has two VFOs, I could\nstill hear the downlink even if the transmit VFO was the active \nVFO.  I had to make sure to go back to the receive VFO to make my\nDoppler adjustments, and then to the transmit VFO if I wanted to \nbe heard through the satellite (something I missed once or twice).\nSure, this is not the ideal handheld radio for FM satellite operating,\nbut it is definitely good enough as a backup if I am not able to \nuse my normal HT (IC-T7H) or any of my other radios to get on an FM\nsatellite pass.  \n\nI will not regularly work satellite passes from this location.  I\ntried it today, since I was the only one in the office (I had some\nwork to do on one of my computer systems, best done when nobody else\nis in).  There is a hospital about 1/2 mile (about 1km) south of here,\nwhich throws out a lot of intermod - a good reason not to work many \npasses here.  With a better antenna, and especially pointing south\ntoward the hospital, I would have had problems hearing the satellite\ndownlink.  Even with all of that in mind, I now have another radio \nthat I've used on the satellites - and is capable of being used in\nthe future if the need arises.  It will definitely be used for APRS\nwhen I go on the road, mostly through the terrestrial APRS network but \nI might see if I can get an APRS packet through the ISS some time.  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\n",
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