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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK from southern Nevada & northwestern Arizona, last weekend - report (long)",
    "date": "2016-05-04T04:11:12Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nIn addition to attending the ARRL Nevada State Convention (\"NVCON\") in Las\nVegas last weekend, I did a fair amount of operating from two locations\naround Las Vegas, plus another location in northwestern Arizona. I worked\nfrom 3 different grid locators in the two states, and also operated from\nthe Lake Mead National Recreation Area - a site operated by the National\nPark Service, and my first activation of a National Park Service site for\nthe ARRL's National Parks on the Air activity in 2016.\n\nOn my way to Las Vegas on Friday (29 April), I stopped at a spot in\nKingman, Arizona, so I could park on 114 degrees West - the line between\ngrids DM25 and DM35. The spot I use is in a field west of old US-66, which\nis now an Arizona state highway, and north of the I-40 freeway. At the time\nI reached Kingman, there were AO-85 and FO-29 passes around midday, and I\nwanted to work both passes to put these grid locators on the air. Kingman\nis about 200 miles northwest of Phoenix, 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas,\nand it was a nice stopping point to get out of my car and play some radio.\nI worked 9 stations on the AO-85 pass, followed by 5 QSOs on the FO-29\npass, before I got back in the car for the 90-minute drive up to Las\nVegas and the convention.\n\nLater Friday evening, I planned to make a drive to one of two spots in\nthe Lake Mead National Recreation Area where I could work some passes on\nAO-73 and AO-85. I settled on a location just inside the park boundary at\nthe end of Lake Mead Parkway, which connects the I-215/I-515 interchange\nin the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson with a entrance to the park. There\nis a parking lot just inside the park boundary at a trailhead, before a\ntoll booth, and that parking lot was actually a nice spot to work lower\npasses. I worked two pairs of passes on those two satellites - one pair to\nthe east (this included a 5-degree AO-85 pass), and a pair to the west.\nThree stations on the AO-73 pass, and Paul N8HM on the low AO-85 pass, made\na good start toward my goal of working 10 different stations to make this\neffort qualify as a National Parks on the Air activation. The later pair of\npasses were more productive - 3 QSOs on AO-73, followed by 5 more on AO-85,\nand the 4th of those 5 AO-85 QSOs represented the 10th unique station I\nworked from the lake. This meant my evening at the lake qualified as an\nactivation of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area (site RC13) for NPOTA.\n\nSaturday (30 April) started out with a big rainstorm. Between the rain,\nlots of road construction around Las Vegas, and some unfortunate highway\naccidents, it made for a tough time getting around. I started the day at a\nspot I know very well for satellite operation - the DM25/DM26 grid boundary\nin the south end of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, east of Las Vegas\nBoulevard and the I-15 freeway. I had an SO-50 pass around 7am (1400 UTC)\nthat covered most of the continental USA, and stood outside to work this\npass. In the span of 10 minutes, 10 stations went in the log. Then I went\nback in my car, making what should have been a 20 minute drive to the\nconvention in about 45 minutes.\n\nAfter the convention ended Saturday evening, I made a return trip to Lake\nMead. I stopped at the same parking lot just inside the park boundary,\nthis time to work one pass each on AO-73 and AO-85. I had already made the\nrequired number of contacts to be considered an official activation under\nthe ARRL's NPOTA rules, so these passes were to get this location into more\nlogs. Being a Saturday evening, not many were on. I worked 2 stations on\nAO-73, and 3 on AO-85. Not bad for just the pair of passes to the east.\n\nSunday (1 May) morning started out like Saturday morning, but without the\nrain. I drove to the DM25/DM26 grid boundary once again for an SO-50 pass\nstarting around 7.15am (1415 UTC). Eight stations went in the log this\ntime. Then the drive to the convention, which took about 20 minutes.\n\nOnce the convention wrapped up late Sunday morning, I made two stops for\nworking passes before driving home. I worked FO-29 and AO-85 from Lake\nMead around midday (1900 UTC), followed by an SO-50 pass in Kingman on the\nDM25/DM35 grid boundary just before 4pm (2300 UTC). Four FO-29 QSOs and\n8 AO-85 QSOs were logged from the lake, before driving around to the\nvisitor center between Boulder City and Hoover Dam, on the way to Kingman.\nAt the visitor center, I was able to get the National Park Service passport\nstamps for Lake Mead and the National Park Service centennial, along with\nsome photos of the lake, before driving to Kingman to work the SO-50 pass.\nAt Kingman, during a busy SO-50 pass, I was able to make 12 QSOs with\nstations across the continental USA, western Canada, and WA7HQD/MM sailing\noff the California coast.\n\nA comment... with WA7HQD/MM popping up on that pass, it became very busy\nquickly. I wasn't at home, yet after hearing many stations unsuccessfully\ntrying to get through and work Doc, I made a call. There's no rule that\nsays I can only work the rare ones when I'm at home, or in the area covered\nby a satellite VUCC award. I believe I was the first station to\nsuccessfully work WA7HQD/MM on that pass. After my QSO, several others were\nable to make their QSOs with him. Even though I normally welcome stations\nworking me on any pass they hear me on, I appreciate that several stations\nwho were on that SO-50 pass, but worked me either on Friday afternoon or\nother times in the past at the DM25/DM35 boundary, did not call me on that\nbusy pass Sunday afternoon. That is smart operating, what W1PA recently\ncalled on Twitter \"situational awareness\". I did not know Doc was planning\nto work that SO-50 pass, but know that several were able to work both Doc\nand me for some rarely-heard grids on the satellites.\n\nIt was fun to get on the air from those grids in northwestern Arizona and\nsouthern Nevada. I have been thinking about visiting National Park Service\nsites here in Arizona to activate them on the satellites, like Fernando\nNP4JV has been doing a lot, and it was a twist that the first time I\nactivated a site in the NPOTA activity came outside of Arizona. :-)  To\nsatisfy the ARRL's rules for NPOTA, I documented my presence at Lake Mead\nas I would operating from a grid boundary under the VUCC rules - photos of\nmy GPS receiver and my station, along with screenshots of my mobile phone\nshowing my location on the http://aprs.fi web site. And the stamps from the\nLake Mead visitor center on my way out of Las Vegas, too. I tweeted some of\nthese photos and screenshots while I was up there.\n\nAll of these QSOs have been uploaded to Logbook of the World. Participation\nin the ARRL's National Parks on the Air event is done using LOTW, although\nI will also send QSL cards out to anyone who worked me and wants to receive\na QSL card (including the NPOTA site code, RC13, listed on the cards for\nthe Lake Mead QSOs). Please e-mail me directly with the QSO details, so I\ncan check my log for the QSO(s). There's no need to first send me a card or\nSASE to get mine in return.\n\nThanks again, and 73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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