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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/6EJ6X554FFY5UA2YFJ2V2HJRGLM2T5BR/?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] Yuma Hamfest report",
    "date": "2012-02-19T05:45:45Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nThe Yuma Hamfest wrapped up this evening, after a full day with lots\nof people wandering around the Yuma County Fairgrounds site.  This\nyear's hamfest is also the 2012 ARRL Southwestern Division Convention,\nwhich brought more people in.  The AMSAT table saw lots of traffic,\nespecially with the model of the Fox-1 satellite on display along \nwith flyers about the Fox project and getting started on the FM birds.\n\nThe AMSAT table was inside the main hall, next to the large ARRL table.\nWith all the people coming by the table, I did not work any passes in \nthe morning.  I was able to do one afternoon demonstration, on an AO-27 \npass just after 2000 UTC.  Thanks, as always, for all the QSOs!  Please\nnote that I am *not* the QSL manager for K7UGA satellite activity, but\ndirect the QSL requests with SASE to K7BHM. \n\nOne of the planned events for this hamfest was the launch of a high-\naltitude balloon carrying (among other payloads) an APRS transmitter\nand a 2m/70cm cross-band FM repeater.  Due to uncooperative winds \npredicted for Yuma, which could have blown the balloon onto one of \ntwo military bombing ranges to the north or east of Yuma, or possibly\nsouth across the USA/Mexico border, the launch was moved north to the\ntown of Quartzsite AZ.  Instead of the crowds seeing the launch in \nperson, a live video link was established from Quartzsite to a large\nscreen in the main exhibit hall.  Once the balloon was no longer \nvisible on the video link, the exhibit hall switched over to showing\na web site plotting the path of the satellite using APRS data. \n\nAfter the balloon was up to about 20000 feet/6100m, I could hear the\n70cm downlink from the repeater.  This repeater is essentially like \nSO-50 - 2m uplink with PL tone, 70cm downlink - but without having to\ndeal with Doppler.  I made a quick QSO through the repeater using my\nTH-D72A HT and a long duckie antenna from the AMSAT table in the main\nhall.  After seeing that I was able to hear and be heard through that \nrepeater, I changed antennas to my Elk log periodic, and proceeded to \nmake a few more QSOs.  These additional QSOs were made using the K7UGA \ncall sign I have been using this week on the satellites, an added bonus \nfor those around Arizona and a couple of hams outside the exhibit hall \nat the hamfest.  The fact that I could hear, and work, the balloon's \ncross-band repeater surprised many in the main hall.  Especially with\nthe HT.  \n\nAfter the balloon's approximately 2 1/2-hour flight, it crash-landed\nin the desert north of Interstate 10 between Quartzsite and Phoenix.\nAs the recovery team drove up to the area where the balloon was \nlaying, the crowds in the main hall were treated to another live \nvideo feed.  We were able to see them find the balloon on the ground.\n\nOver the two days at Yuma, I (as K7UGA) worked 5 different satellite \npasses along with the repeater on the balloon this morning.  Thanks\nagain to the Yuma Amateur Radio Hamfest Organization - an actual non-\nprofit corporation set up just to host this annual event.  They had\nseveral drawings throughout the event - door prizes, a prize for \nsimply registering for the hamfest, other prizes given out during the\nbarbecue this evening, and 16 prizes in the grand prize drawing after\nthe barbecue.  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK (and one of the K7UGA satellite operators)\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n",
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