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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Yuma Hamfest (19-20 February 2016) - report",
    "date": "2016-02-24T21:17:11Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nLast weekend's Yuma Hamfest in southwestern Arizona was a fun event to be a\npart of. For the 8th straight year, AMSAT had a booth at the hamfest. This\nyear, as in 2012 previously, the Yuma Hamfest also served as the ARRL\nSouthwestern Division Convention. This brought more people out to Yuma,\nalong with the great weather and the lower fuel prices in most of the\nsouthwestern USA outside of California certainly didn't hurt.\n\nThe hamfest ran across two days - Friday (19 February) afternoon, and all\nday Saturday (20 February). The hamfest site, the Yuma County Fairgrounds,\nturns into a mix of hamfest, convention, and campground. Campers are able\nto park on the fairgrounds for the weekend, meaning there's no travel from\ncamp site to hamfest. For the others attending the hamfest, there are many\nmotels and hotels around Yuma, or other campgrounds in the area - plus the\ndesert, a favorite of many spending the winter in this area. The\nfairgrounds sits across the street from Yuma International Airport and\nMarine Corps Air Station Yuma. With the military air operations, it was\nlike having a small air show alongside the hamfest with the different types\nof military aircraft in the sky.\n\nAMSAT had its booth in a section with other groups like ARRL and the Civil\nAir Patrol. Lots of traffic went past the booth over the two days. I set up\ntablets running videos showing demonstrations of working satellites,\ntracking software (SatPC32), and SDR (HDSDR, connected to either an SDRplay\nreceiver or a HackRF Blue software-defined transceiver). Demonstrations\nwere done outside the hall, near a parking lot, on 3 different satellites\n(AO-85, FO-29, SO-50) using different radio configurations:\n\nAO-85- TX: IC-2730A, RX: SDRplay with HDSDR on 8-inch Windows 10 tablet\nFO-29- TX/RX: FT-817ND (half-duplex)\nSO-50- TX/RX: TH-D72A (also half-duplex)\n\nAll of my radio configurations used an Elk Antennas handheld 2m/70cm log\nperiodic. For the AO-85 configuration, the antenna was connected through an\nMFJ diplexer to serve both the IC-2730A and SDRplay.\n\nWith the hamfest starting at midday (1900 UTC) Friday, and AO-85's pass\ntimes not lining up better with the hamfest, Saturday morning was the only\nchance I had for an AO-85 demonstration during the hamfest. For the other\ntwo satellites, I was on at least once a day on each satellite. One of the\nFO-29 passes on Saturday afternoon was recorded on video, and has since\nbeen uploaded to YouTube:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-G6rD_xl4\n\nOther pictures were posted on my @WD9EWK Twitter feed over the weekend. If\nyou don't have a Twitter account, you can follow this link and scroll back\nto see other photos I posted from the hamfest:\n\nhttp://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n\nOutside of the hamfest on Friday and Sunday mornings, I worked AO-85 from\nthe Yuma Territorial Prison State Historical Park, northwest of the hamfest\nnear the Colorado River. All of these locations were in the rarely-heard\ngrid DM22. For all of the AO-85 passes I worked at those two locations, I\ncaptured and uploaded telemetry to AMSAT.\n\nWith AO-85 being in orbit for a few months now, and more satellites coming\nduring 2016, it makes it easier to talk about this part of ham radio at an\nevent like the Yuma Hamfest. Instead of \"it's coming\", I can say \"we have\none Fox-1 satellite in orbit now, and more on the way\". Add in the other\nprojects AMSAT is working on currently, and this is a much better situation\ncompared to a few years ago. A good thing. :-)\n\nThanks to Roger Hunt K7MEX and the Yuma Amateur Radio Hamfest Organization\n(a not-for-profit corporation whose only purpose is this hamfest!) for\nallowing AMSAT to be a part of the event. Thanks also to all the stations\nwho called WD9EWK during the demonstrations. Some of them took a little\nbit of time to describe their location, and even their station setup -\nthings that help the crowds understand how far we can communicate through\nthe satellites, and what others use for their stations.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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