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    "sender_name": "Tim Tapio",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: W7W via satellite, \"Westfest\" hamfest in Glendale AZ,\t13 January 2007",
    "date": "2007-01-15T23:45:33Z",
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    "content": "Great work Patrick!\n\nDe Tim, K4SHF\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On\nBehalf Of Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)\nSent: Monday, January 15, 2007 4:47 PM\nTo: amsat-bb\nSubject: [amsat-bb] W7W via satellite, \"Westfest\" hamfest in Glendale AZ,13\nJanuary 2007\n\nAfter my first time working at an AMSAT hamfest table last month, I was\nlooking forward to this hamfest on the west side of the Phoenix area.  Gerry\nVE4GTB/KD7MDB and I took care of the table, and we answered lots of\nquestions\nand had 4 passes (2 on SO-50, 2 on AO-51) for demonstrations that attracted\nthe interest of the hamfest crowd.  We had a good time despite the bitter\ncold and small turnout, and also sold a fair amount of AMSAT items to hams\nlooking to try the satellites themselves.\n\nThe hamfest organizers, the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club (W7TBC):\n\nhttp://www.w7tbc.org/\n\nhad requested the special callsign W7W for use by their HF special-event\nstation.  Gerry had asked them if we could also use the W7W call during our\nsatellite demonstrations, and we were told, \"Sure.\"  I posted an\nannouncement\non the AMSAT-BB mailing list and on a few other lists of the upcoming\nsatellite activity, and we were ready to go.\n\nSaturday morning started early... I arrived at the hamfest site at 0530\nlocal\n(1230 UTC), and Gerry was already there.  We were told by the organizers to\nset up next to their HF station, and one of the Thunderbird club members\nmade\nsure we had a covered spot in case of rain.  We set up our tables with the\nAMSAT merchandise and my equipment (IC-2720H mobile radio, 12V/20Ah gel-cell\nbatteries, Arrow Antennas handheld Yagi, Sony digital voice recorder,\nexternal speaker, laptop with Nova running during the demonstrations to show\nwhere the satellites were).  Our first pass was on SO-50 at 1317 UTC, and we\nwere ready for that.\n\nThe first SO-50 pass went from south to east, and since it was an early pass\nwe were not sure there would be many stations showing up.  We made 2\ncontacts\nduring the pass, with Angelo N5UXT as our first satellite contact as W7W\n(thanks for being up early, Angelo!).  One other contact before the end of\nthe pass with a VE3, and then back to answering questions until 1500-1520\nUTC\nand an SO-50 pass followed immediately by an AO-51 pass.\n\nThe SO-50 pass around 1500 UTC went to the west, and being early for those\nin\nwestern North America I did not expect much activity.  We were happy to make\n3 contacts, two Mexican stations plus Zach KM7I in Seattle before we moved\nover to AO-51.  We heard the announcements from Gould WA4SXM that there was\ntesting in progress, so we kept listening and hoping the satellite would be\navailable for part of the pass since it would cover most of North America.\nThe testing ended, leaving a couple of minutes to make 2 quick contacts\nbefore the satellite went out of range.\n\nThe final AO-51 pass, around 1647-1702 UTC, started out with a surprise.\nThe\ncrowd and I heard a couple of hams chatting on 435.310 MHz, which was where\nI ready to hear AO-51 at the start of the pass.  I quickly went onto that\nfrequency and asked those hams to move to another frequency, which they did,\nand then we made 10 contacts with stations in the western USA, Alaska, and\nMexico to conclude our satellite demonstrations.  Larry WA6DIR in California\nwas the last station in the W7W satellite log.\n\nAt the end of the morning, we had a total of 17 contacts in our satellite\nlog.  We made 12 contacts on AO-51 and 5 on SO-50 with stations in 8 US\nstates (Alaska, Arizona, California, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, and\nWashington state), one Canadian province (Ontario), and two Mexican states\n(Baja California and Zacatecas).  The hamfest organizers now have a copy of\nthe satellite log, to combine with their HF log for their records and to be\nable to answer any QSL requests from the satellite demonstrations.\n\nGerry and I will have the AMSAT table at the next Phoenix-area hamfest, the\nScottsdale Amateur Radio Club's \"Springfest\" on 10 March.  I will come back\nto the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club for their meeting on 15 March, to do a\npresentation on amateur satellites and AMSAT.  Thanks to everyone who\nstopped\nby our table, and for those we made contact with on the satellites.\n\n73!\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\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\n",
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