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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Tri-City ARA presentation/demos, last night",
    "date": "2015-11-17T17:29:52Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI spent last night with the Tri-City Amateur Radio Association in Goodyear,\na west-side suburb of Phoenix. The club invited me to give a presentation\non satellites and AMSAT, and I was also able to demonstrate a couple of our\nsatellites launched recently (LilacSat-2, AO-85) before and into the\nofficial start of the meeting. Even with a gotcha related to the\npresentation, it was a good evening. Being able to have demonstrations on\ntwo FM satellites, and neither of them being SO-50, was something very\ndifferent - and fun!\n\nI made it out to the meeting site, which was about an hour's drive from my\nhouse on the east side of metro Phoenix, with time to spare. I took my time\nsetting up my gear for the two demonstration passes. As I was setting up,\nseveral club members watched me and asked questions about my equipment.\nMany had their HTs, and I kept reminding them to be ready to listen to the\nAO-85 pass around 7pm (0200 UTC), as they might be able to hear that\ndownlink without having to use a larger antenna. I used only my IC-2820H\ndual-band mobile radio to work LilacSat-2 at 5W, then added my SDRplay SDR\nreceiver with my 8-inch Windows 10 tablet for the AO-85 pass.\n\nLilacSat-2 came by around 6.20pm (0120 UTC), and there were only three of\nus on that pass. Thanks to Glenn AA5PK in west Texas and Fernando NP4JV in\nsouthern Arizona for the contacts during that pass. After LilacSat-2 went\nbehind trees and buildings to my north, I rewired my setup so the SDRplay\nwas connected through a diplexer to my Elk antenna, and connected my\nexternal speaker to the tablet through an audio splitter.\n\nSince the AO-85 pass was coming by at the normal 7pm start time of the\nclub's monthly meeting, it was decided that the demonstration would serve\nas the start of the meeting. \"Problem\" solved. :-) This pass went almost\ndirectly overhead, and we were hearing activity as soon as the satellite\ncame up above the trees and buildings northwest of the meeting site. I\nalso found that my Windows tablet doesn't have enough audio to drive an\nexternal speaker, earbuds I could use to hear the downlink, and my Sony\naudio recorder, so I unplugged the audio splitter and relied on the small\nspeakers in the tablet. I worked a few stations during the pass, and\ncopied a total of 15 data frames that have been uploaded to the AMSAT\nserver. I will update my logbook and upload contacts from these two passes\nto Logbook of the World tonight. The RF recording from this pass, along\nwith some photos, have been uploaded to the \"20151117-AO85_Fox1A\" folder\nin my Dropbox space: http://dropbox.wd9ewk.net/\n\nDuring the AO-85 pass, several club members mentioned they could hear the\n145.980 MHz FM downlink. A couple had HTs with long duckie antennas, and\na couple had the stock duckies for their HTs. These might not have worked\nfor making contacts during the pass, but being able to hear the downlink\nwithout using a larger antenna impressed everyone. The crowd was also\nimpressed with the activity on the pass, and seeing how my SDR receive\nsetup copied the downlink.\n\nAfter AO-85 went by, I packed up my gear as the club went inside the\nbuilding to have their monthly business meeting. When I went inside, the\nbusiness meeting had just concluded, and they were ready for my\npresentation. One slight problem... the projector in the meeting room had\na DisplayPort cable on it, and nobody had a computer that could use that\nvideo connector, or an adapter to allow that to work with other video\noutputs like HDMI or VGA. Working around that, I gave my presentation, and\nthen e-mailed the PDF version of the slideshow to the club for\ndistribution to its members.\n\nThanks to the Bob Nobis N7RJN and the Tri-City Amateur Radio Association\nfor the invitation to speak at their meeting last night, along with giving\nthe demonstrations on LilacSat-2 and AO-85. Of course, thanks to the\nstations on those two passes for calling WD9EWK and being part of the\nactivities.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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