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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/46ZFVK2LHN47GJMJJXJFQVTCWACZ25UI/?format=api",
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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK @ Radio Society of Tucson hamfest, & other operating on 26-27 March (long)",
    "date": "2016-03-31T03:52:19Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nLast Saturday (26 March), I had an AMSAT table at the Radio Society of\nTucson's annual hamfest. This year's hamfest was at a new location, at a\nTarget store on the east end of that city. Even with the new location,\nthere was a nice turnout. And, unlike most hamfests in Arizona, the\norganizers were most truthful with the hours for the hamfest - 6am (1300\nUTC), which was just before sunrise, until 11am (1800 UTC) when most are\nleaving for lunch or to pick up with the rest of their weekends. I took\nadvantage of this, and will go into my post-hamfest activities in a bit.\n\nI arrived in Tucson the night before the hamfest, and saw a tweet asking\nif anyone would be on an AO-85 pass just before 0500 UTC. I had arrived\nin Tucson about 90 minutes before that pass, saw a Wal-Mart store near my\nmotel, and decided to give it a try. A nice pass, where I worked Fernando\nNP4JV about 60 miles south of me and Paul N8HM in Washington DC. I also\ncopied telemetry, which I uploaded after the pass back in the motel room.\nA good pass, and a good way to start this rapid-fire trip to Tucson and\nbeyond.\n\nThe hamfest had a crowd showing up just after 5am (1200 UTC), including me.\nI had my AMSAT table ready, and my station set for the first of two AO-85\npasses at 1330 UTC. I worked stations from coast to (almost) coast, using\nmy IC-2730A FM mobile radio as the transmitter and my SDRplay SDR receiver\nand 8-inch Windows tablet as the receiver. As with other recent events,\nusing an SDR receiver brings out lots of questions. For Saturday morning,\nthis meant I missed working the 3 XW-2 satellites that were passing by\nafter this pass. After talking about SDR, and mentioning I would use the\nSDRplay on the second AO-85 pass a few minutes after 1500 UTC, I had a\nlarger crowd around for that pass. Not as many stations on as with the\nearlier pass, but still enough to demonstrate satellite operating and how\nwell the SDR receiver worked with the AO-85 downlink.\n\nWith the earlier ending time for the hamfest, I saw an AO-73 pass after\n1630 UTC that would be another pass I wanted to work as a demonstration.\nEven though the Tucson morning was comfortable outside, not requiring a\njacket, I left my Windows tablet outside in the sunlight. By the time of\nthe AO-73 pass, it shut down due to overheating. Instead of using the\nSDRplay on another pass, I quickly brought out my second Yaesu FT-817ND\nto go with the FT-817ND I already had out as my transmitter on the AO-73\npass. I was able to work a few stations, and then answer the differences\nin operating on a linear transponder in SSB compared to an FM satellite.\nI worked 3 stations, almost coast to coast across the continental USA,\non this AO-73 pass.\n\nWith the early end to the hamfest, I was able to start driving a little\nearlier toward my goal for the afternoon - a point about 15 miles/25km\nwest of the New Mexico town of Deming, on the DM52/DM62 grid boundary.\nOn the way out there, I made two stops to work FO-29 passes. The first\nFO-29 pass, just after 1900 UTC, was a quick stop in the hopes of working\nPaul N8HM on the National Mall in Washington DC. I stopped at an exit off\nI-10 about 25 miles/40km southeast of Tucson, still in the same grid DM42\nas the hamfest, and was able to work Paul and Clayton W5PFG on that pass.\nI did not stick around to work the entire pass, as I was trying to make\nthe 200-mile/320km drive from Tucson to that spot outside of Deming in\ntime to work some SO-50 passes starting in the mid-afternoon.\n\nJust after crossing the Arizona/New Mexico state line, a few minutes before\n2100 UTC, was another FO-29 pass. I stopped at a place I have operated from\nin the past, the small \"town\" of Road Forks, about 5 miles/8km east of the\nstate line. Road Forks is pretty much what the name implies - a fork in the\nroad for the old US-80, which ran through this part of the country before\nthe interstate highways were built. I parked at an old truck stop, and\nworked a few stations from here. Road Forks is in grid DM52, just over 60\nmiles/100km west of the DM52/DM62 grid boundary, so I still had to do more\ndriving to reach the grid boundary.\n\nI made it to the DM52/DM62 grid boundary in a little less than an hour's\ndrive from Road Forks, and spent a few minutes getting situated to take the\nobligatory photos to document my location on the grid boundary. Along with\nphotos I tweeted, my TH-D72A HT was able to transmit my location to the\nAPRS network in this part of the country showing where I parked. In doing\nthis, I did not have a chance to work an AO-7 pass that started just after\n2200 UTC, but was definitely able to work an SO-50 pass starting around\n2222 UTC. In fact, I was able to wake up SO-50 very early in the pass, as I\nwas in a location where the nearest hills and mountains were very far in\nthe distance. In the next 10 minutes, I worked 13 stations from coast to\ncoast in the continental USA, and Dani TG9AMD in Guatemala City. A mostly\ngood pass, with my activity along with Dave KG5CCI and Clayton W5PFG also\nworking portable (KG5CCI in EM24/Oklahoma, W5PFG in EM02/Texas).\n\nWith a heavy wind blowing across the desert, and not wanting to be out in\nthe southwestern New Mexico desert after dark, I decided to only work one\nother pass, a western SO-50 pass just after 0000 UTC. But before that pass,\nI saw a tractor-trailer come off the I-10 freeway with its trailer heavily\ndamaged. The center of the trailer looked like something heavy dropped on\ntop of it, collapsing the trailer's roof. I also saw an interesting car\nchase speed by on the I-10, with 3 New Mexico state troopers chasing a Fiat\nwestbound - and I'd see those troopers, and a couple of others, with that\ncar later on when I started driving back to Arizona.\n\nThe later SO-50 pass started around 0004 UTC, 6.04pm local time in New\nMexico. Although I only worked stations as far east as Arkansas and\nTennessee, I was able to work a total of 12 stations on this pass. Mostly\nstations along the west coast and west of the Rockies. It was nice to hand\nout contacts with these stations, since almost nobody gets on the birds\nfrom these two grids any more unless someone travels to or through them.\n\nAfter this SO-50 pass, I started my drive back home - a drive of over 250\nmiles/400km. After passing by the spot where that car chase ended a few\nmiles west of the DM52/DM62 grid boundary (the Fiat looked like it spun out\ninto the median, where the state troopers surrounded it), I kept going west\non I-10 about 150 miles/250km until I reached the small Arizona town of\nBenson. This town, about 40 miles/65km southeast of Tucson, was a good\nplace for me to get a late dinner, fuel for my car, and there were two more\npasses I wanted to work to wrap up my operating on this trip. Benson is on\nthe north edge of grid DM41, and I saw I could work both AO-73 and AO-85 in\nthe span of about 25 minutes around 0330 UTC from this spot.\n\nThe AO-73 pass was quieter than I expected, but I worked 3 stations - Nick\nKE8AKW in Ohio, Hector W5CBF in Louisiana, and Brent VE5SWL in Saskatchewan\nwho had tweeted he would be on this pass. AO-85 came by a few minutes after\nthe AO-73 pass, and I added two more stations to the log (Jerry N0JY in\nTexas, Frank K6FW in California). With this, and that late dinner I needed,\nI went back on the I-10 to finish my drive. Benson was almost exactly the\nhalfway point between the DM52/DM62 grid boundary and home, and the last\n150 miles/250km went by in about 2 hours. Speed limits on the rural parts\nof I-10 in Arizona and New Mexico are 75mph or 120 km/h, in case anyone\nwas concerned that I tried to set new land speed records for my driving on\nI-10. :-)\n\nThanks to everyone who called and worked WD9EWK during the passes I worked\nfrom the hamfest! I do this on a regular basis, and many of you already\ngive more than just a call sign and grid locator - your city/town and\nstate, a brief rundown on your station, etc. which the crowd is listening\nto and appreciates hearing. All of my QSOs from this trip to southern\nArizona and over to New Mexico are in Logbook of the World from 4 different\ngrid locators (DM41, DM42, DM52, DM62), and I am happy to send QSL cards to\nanyone interested in a confirmation of a QSO from this trip. Please e-mail\nme directly with the QSO details. If you're in my log, I will be happy to\nsend you a card. No need to first send me a card or SASE to get my card\nfrom this trip.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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