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        "address": "bill (a) hsmicrowave.com",
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    "sender_name": "Bill Ress",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: First week as a satellite newbie",
    "date": "2008-11-18T17:40:27Z",
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    "content": "Hi Bryan,\n\nYep - \"what a hoot\" is appropriate. A hardy welcome to the wonderful \nworld of amateur satellites and thanks for sharing your experience with \nus. I know you'll have many, many more fun passes.\n\nWith all the fun you're having - have you had a chance to join AMSAT??\n\nRegards...Bill - N6GHz\n\n\nBryan Green wrote:\n> Greetings, all:\n>\n> Bryan KL7CN/W6 here in CM98fn.\n>\n> A week ago, the used IC-W32A and Arrow 146/437-10WBP I purchased from  \n> N3PKC via QRZ.com arrived. Hurray!\n>\n> The very first night I stood in the back yard and waved the antenna  \n> above my head in one hand and held the IC-W32A in the other. I heard  \n> K6LCS on SO-50, but couldn't quite manage to get things aligned to get  \n> them to work.\n>\n> The next night I brought the gear to our local Sacramento Java Users  \n> Group meeting. It might seem like a funny association, but there have  \n> been a couple members of the group who very recently got their radio  \n> licenses and I wanted to share the satellite experience with them.\n>\n> So, later that night, Marnie KI6SXU and I stood on a darkened street  \n> corner between buildings in a business park in Rancho Cordova, and  \n> scanned the sky for SO-50 with the Arrow. Late-leaving workers and  \n> security guards made double-takes at us as they drove by, but then we  \n> heard him! Chris, KG7EZ in DN32! I stuttered through calling him back,  \n> and we made contact! Chris was very gracious and encouraging as we  \n> elatedly told him that he was our very first satellite contact!\n>\n> After the thrill of first contact was done, we packed up the gear and  \n> went inside to look up the call sign and grid square -- sure enough,  \n> there he was! We spent the next hour looking at Google Maps,  \n> AMSAT.org, and QRZ.com. We completely skipped the rest of the meeting!  \n> Marnie, who's had her license all of two months, concluded that this  \n> was actually fun and that she could imagine herself chasing satellites  \n> with her retired grandfather at his middle-of-nowhere cabin in Arizona.\n>\n> Since then, I've made 10 more contacts on both AO-51 and SO-50. It  \n> took a while to discover the mode schedule for AO-51; it sure started  \n> working better after the 17th when mode VU was turned on. I added an  \n> old tripod to the mix after watching K7AGE's excellent video tutorials  \n> which helps quite a bit. I've heard the ISS on 145.825 Packet but  \n> haven't heard anything else from them.\n>\n> This is fun. It's inspiring! I keep imagining the science curriculum  \n> that could be written around this! I want to show it to my high-school  \n> age cousins!\n>\n> Of course, I aspire to a lovely ground station with a wonderful  \n> computer-controlled high-power VHF/UHF transceiver and a fabulous  \n> antenna array mounted on rotors on a tower. But this manual operation  \n> makes it fun! I walk around outside on the sidewalk, moving the tripod  \n> so it has the best view of the pass. I make a complete fool of myself  \n> as I juggle the HT, the notebook with coordinates, the flashlight, and  \n> my cellphone to check the time. (Note to self: petition Icom to put a  \n> clock chip in their HTs -- obvious?) What a hoot!\n>\n> Thanks for listening; I'll hear you on the birds -- I'll be the fellow  \n> that sounds like a noob.\n>\n> -- bag\n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n>\n>   \n",
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