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    "sender_name": "Bob- W7LRD",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award",
    "date": "2013-08-23T19:07:10Z",
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    "content": "Nice accomplishment John, glad to have been a small part of it. Now whatcha gonna do? I am reminded, \"if this were easy, everyone would be doing it\". \n73 Bob W7LRD \n\n----- Original Message -----\nFrom: \"John Papay\" <[email protected]> \nTo: [email protected] \nSent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:08:18 PM \nSubject: [amsat-bb] The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award \n\nSome of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware \nthat KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated \nfrom CN72 in Oregon. And I thought it might be interesting \nto look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm \nall 488 USA lower 48 States grids. \n\nSatellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them. \nA grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is \noff the air when that person goes away for whatever reason. \nInterestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were \nfrom those operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio \nwith batteries, but in the traditional sense of operating away from \ntheir home station location. Once you have experienced being on the \nother end of a small pileup, you will want to do it again. Just ask \nW7LRD who tried it recently and is planning another trip. Here is \na list of operators who exited the comfort of their home station and \nput a grid on the air. The callsign is followed by the number of new \ngrids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488. Others may have \nbeen worked but these totals represent the first time a new grid was \nconfirmed. \n\nND9M 54 \nWD9EWK 27 \nWC7V 19 \nKD4ZGW 16 \nKB0RZD 10 \nKC0YBM 9 \nAA5CK 8 \nKA6SIP 8 \nKD8COQ 8 \nN5ZNL 7 \nW6GMT 7 \nN0JE 6 \nN2SPI 6 \nWA4NVM 5 \nKB5WIA 4 \nKB9BIT 4 \nKC0ZHF 4 \nKK0SD 4 \nAA5PK 3 \nK7CWQ 3 \nUT1FG 3 \nW6ZKH 3 \nWA6ARA 3 \nWA7HQD 3 \nWA8SME 3 \nAC0ZA 2 \nAJ9K 2 \nK0BAM 2 \nK7DRA 2 \nK7TRK 2 \nKA0RID 2 \nKC2LRC 2 \nKE7DOV 2 \nN3TL 2 \nN5AFV 2 \n\nJim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner. Along with working \nsatellites he is also active on the county hunters nets. Most of \nhis activity was between 2009 and 2011. He was also active from a \ncargo ship and gave out the very rare DM02. Jim would travel for \nmonths at a time and worked from a few hundred grids. Most of that \noperating was done on FM birds rather than linear ones. It was \ngreat to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51 were active. \nHO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too. 54 new grids came \nfrom Jim and he tops the list. \n\nMost everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK. He has done a lot of traveling \nboth in the US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids. He was very \nactive on the birds until recently. He was an alternate on the AMSAT \nBoard of Directors and was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT \nArea Coordinator program. He virtually has no home station and most \nall local contacts were made from a park near his apartment in Phoenix. \nHe knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner. \n\nNext on the list is Kerry WC7V. He lives in sparsely populated Montana \nand travels around by car and in his light aircraft. He went to many \ngrids at my request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from \nmany rare locations. He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids. \n\nNext on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m. Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all \nheard him on a satellite one day. He didn't know his grid square but \nhe knew his milepost on the interstate. From there we had the grid \nsquare. Rob went on to improve his mobile station and activated over \n100 grid squares. He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not \nbeen active for some time. He is fourth on the list with 16 grids. \n\nThe next three are very special because they all became new operators \nduring the quest to work all 488. Gail KB0RZD is very active today, \nusually operating with a handie-talkie. He went to 10 grids around him \nand sent some photo qsl cards that were just outstanding. KC0YBM operated \nfrom his home location for a long time before I realized he was very \nclose to other grids. Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested \nhe look into an AC inverter for the car. He did just that and soon he \nwas operating portable from some new grids. This speaks to the ham radio \nculture that you find a way to operate with what you have. Chris continues \nto be active and hands out grids in the US and Canada. And then there \nis Ted, AA5CK. He has operated in grids around his home qth as well as \nsome rare ones in New Mexico. He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where \nI made my first grid expedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of \nthe White Dog Ranch on old Route 66. I remember Ted's first sat contact. \n\nThere are a few very special operators that can't be left out. My son, \nKD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad. He knows how to operate \nportable and gives out the grids when he travels. Then there was \nRichard N2SPI. I asked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been \non and he took the challenge and drove to all of them, getting back to \nhis dad's place during the first snow of the season. Dave KB5WIA made \nquite the trip by backpacking into CM79. It took two trips to transport \nthe equipment into the grid. He has a video of it on youtube. \n\nI started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August \n2008. From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109. In 2009 199 \nwere worked. 2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44. Only 4 new grids were worked \nin 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013. Eight of those final 9 grids were \nhanded out by Tom KA6SIP. He heard about the need and decided to make a \ngrid expedition to put them on the air. He did 7 of them in one trip. \nThen Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for \nthe first time. That left CN72. Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly \nmade plans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20 August \n2013 at 2332z. Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very \nrare grid square but one that I already had. Many others worked him there. \n\nThere is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is \nfor six meters (FFMA). The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will \nimplement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote \nand it passes. Hopefully that will happen soon. Having that type of award \ngives everyone something to work for. It promotes grid expeditions and \ninterest in working through the satellites. If we all contact our \nARRL Director, it might just happen. \n\nThere may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites. \nK6YK might be one of them. I know there are several others who are \ngetting close. It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate \nevery day. It is something you can work towards over the years. \n\nI want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that ultimately \nled to working all 488. Many went out of their way to put on a grid. Over \nhalf of the grids worked were from grid expeditions! If you haven't \nexperienced \noperating away from home, please consider it. With new operators showing up \non the birds every day, there is always a need for an uncommon grid. And you \nwill have a lot of fun doing it! Just ask anyone on my list. \n\n73, \nJohn K8YSE \n\n_______________________________________________ \nSent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. \nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! \nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb \n",
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