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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK on the satellites last weekend - report",
    "date": "2010-06-10T06:19:31Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nLast weekend was a busy weekend.  Starting with a 3-hour drive\nfrom Phoenix to Show Low in eastern Arizona on Friday (4 June)\nevening, a hamfest in Show Low on Saturday (5 June) followed by \noperating from a nearby grid boundary, to a longer drive north \nwith a 5-hour drive home on Sunday (6 June) - busy, but fun.  \nOver 858 miles/1381km driven in just over 2 days, operating from \n3 locations in 3 different grids. \n\nThe first stop for the weekend was at the White Mountain Hamfest\nin Show Low.  This hamfest has been going on for the past few years, \nand this was the first time I have been to it.  As far as I could\ndetermine, this was the first AMSAT presence at the hamfest.  I \nhad an AMSAT table there, and worked several passes throughout the\nhalf-day event (2 passes each on AO-7 and SO-50; one pass each\non VO-52, SO-50, and AO-27).  Late in the morning, a local Boy\nScout troop visited, and one Scout took the microphone to talk\nwith a couple of stations on an SO-50 pass.  A total of 41 QSOs\nwent in the log from the demonstrations, including 12 QSOs on an\nAO-7 pass to start the morning at 1400 UTC.  Lots of AMSAT \nmerchandise made it into the hands of hams in that area, and -\nlike with any hamfest - lots of questions about operating and \nspecifically how I was working the satellites with portable \ngear.  \n\nAfter the hamfest and lunch, I found a spot on the DM44xj/DM54aj \ngrid boundary north of Show Low to operate from.  I spent about 5 \nhours at this site, not far from a small lake but off the main \nhighways in the area.  Lots of passes to work - 3 passes on AO-7, \n2 passes on AO-51, and one pass on SO-50.  I knew there were a \nfew who were hoping to hear DM54 on the air, and I was happy to \nmake the contacts with anyone stopping by to call me.  The last\nof the 3 AO-7 passes finished up around sunset, leaving enough\nlight to help me quickly break down my gear for the evening.  I\nlogged 43 QSOs from this grid boundary, a good effort. \n\nAt sunrise Sunday (6 June) morning, I left Show Low and headed \ntoward the Navajo Nation reservation in northeastern Arizona.  \nI was looking for grid DM56, and possibly a spot on the DM55/DM56\ngrid boundary that I could park on, for several hours of operating\nup there before returning home.  I was already in the area for the\nhamfest in Show Low, and a few operators asked if I would be able\nto visit DM56 to work some passes.  I drove north and worked my \nway to US-191 north of the I-40 freeway, and unfortunately saw no \nsafe place to park at the DM55/DM56 grid boundary on that road or \nalongside the road.  I decided to go a few miles/km further north \nto the Navajo town of Chinle, and find someplace to operate there.  \n\nChinle is at the western entrance of the Canyon de Chelly National \nMonument, which I visited during longer gaps between passes.  I \nended up operating in town, not far from a convenience store and \nseveral fast-food restaurants at a highway junction (grid DM56fd).\nSince the afternoon temperatures reached 100F/38C up here, being \nnear places with air conditioning (besides my truck) were most \nappreciated.  :-)  \n\nAt Chinle, I started working passes with the 1620 UTC SO-50 pass.\nAs that pass finished, VO-52 came up.  Not too long after VO-52\nwent away, the first of two HO-68 passes went by to the east.  \nAfter these passes, there was more time between most of the passes,\nwhich I used to get lunch and go into the Canyon de Chelly monument.\nIn the afternoon, I was able to work a couple of AO-27 passes and\nan AO-51 pass before my self-imposed deadline of 2300 UTC (1700 local\ntime on the Navajo reservation) so I would not get home at or after\nmidnight.  I logged a total of 73 QSOs on 8 passes from DM56 (2 passes\neach on SO-50, HO-68, and AO-27; 1 pass each on VO-52 and AO-51), \nworking stations across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii plus \nCanada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.  \n\nAfter the AO-51 pass, the drive back to Phoenix took almost 5.5 hours.\nThis was the reason why I did not want to stay up there to work later\npasses.  I still had to be at my office Monday morning.  The drive\nhome was uneventful, using cruise-control for much of the drive. \n\nI appreciate all the stations that showed up on the Saturday morning\npasses during my demonstrations.  I had a decent crowd at the start\nof the morning for that AO-7 pass, to hear all that activity.  Of\ncourse, being able to put QSOs into logs from the DM44/DM54 boundary\nand from DM56 was also fun.  I have already printed QSL cards for \nthe 3 locations I operated from over the weekend, wrote out cards \nfor those who requested cards and others, and some of those cards \nwill go to the post office tomorrow.  If you would like confirmation\nof a QSO with WD9EWK from the weekend, just e-mail me directly with \nthe QSO details.  I'll be happy to send you a card.  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\n",
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