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        "address": "bill (a) hsmicrowave.com",
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    "sender_name": "Bill Ress",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Successful demo @ 0334-0348 UTC via AO-51, 16 March!",
    "date": "2007-03-16T18:56:20Z",
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    "content": "Hi Patrick,\n\nCongratulations on some fine AMSAT PR. Thanks for your time and efforts!\n\nRegards...Bill - N6GHz\n\nPatrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) wrote:\n> Hi!\n>\n> My presentation and demonstration for the ThunderBird Amateur\n> Radio Club (W7TBC) last night was a success.  This was the radio\n> club that allowed me to use their special callsign W7W during\n> their hamfest in January, and the club invited me to do a\n> presentation and demonstration at this month's meeting.  It was\n> a good presentation with various questions, then the AO-51\n> demonstration during the pass at 0334-0348 UTC, followed by more\n> questions after the pass.\n>\n> In my presentation, I had put in a mention that the club members\n> could attempt to listen to the AO-51 pass while I was doing the\n> demonstration.  Several did exactly that.  A few with HTs and\n> long antennas (duckies or telescoping whips), along with one\n> member who went to his car and used his mobile station, were able\n> to follow along with their own radios.  Other than having an\n> extended question-and-answer session after the pass, I finished my\n> presentation in time to go outside.  Several members helped me take\n> my equipment outside and set it up.\n>\n> For the demonstration, I used an Icom IC-2720H mobile radio at 15W\n> (two contacts toward the end of the pass were made at 5W, to show\n> that lower power could work) into an Arrow Antennas handheld 2m/70cm\n> Yagi.  Power was from a 12V/20Ah gel-cell battery, and the radio\n> is OK with the battery (4.5A draw when transmitting at 15W on 2m,\n> and about 2.5A draw for 5W TX on 2m).  I had a small folding table I\n> put the radio on, and connected three items to one of the IC-2720H's\n> speaker jacks (external speaker for the crowd to listen on, an earphone\n> for me to hear with, and my small Sony digital audio recorder).  My\n> location, on the campus of the Thunderbird School of Global Management\n> in Glendale (west-side suburb of Phoenix), was in grid DM33vo.\n>\n> Within a couple of minutes, Don KD6IRE in northern California was calling\n> me and was the first contact I made with my audience watching and\n> listening.  Then Manuel XE2BHL called from Tijuana, followed by my only\n> contact from eastern North America - George WA5KBH in Louisiana.  I\n> proceeded to make 6 more contacts after that with stations in California,\n> Washington state, Alberta, British Columbia, and - at the end of the\n> pass - Craig KL4E from Alaska showed up for the 9th and final contact of\n> my demonstration.\n>\n> The club members were impressed with the fact they could hear the\n> satellite with their own equipment.  It was a high pass (67 degrees\n> maximum elevation for us), which helped with that, but still an\n> impressive sight.  They were also impressed with how well the satellite\n> sounded as it was going out of range at the end of the pass.\n>\n> Along with the contacts, we heard two other stations that I was not\n> able to make contact with - N6ADR in California, WA7SDI in Oregon.\n> I tried not to monopolize the pass, especially with George WA5KBH\n> trying to work some of the western stations on this late (for him)\n> pass.\n>\n> Lots of people need to be thanked for the successes last night.  First,\n> Gould WA4SXM - one of the AO-51 command stations - for ensuring the\n> satellite would be in the normal FM repeater configuration last night.\n> The ThunderBird Amateur Radio Club, for inviting me to do this - in\n> particular Bob K7UNL (president) and Roger W9NCQ (treasurer - he\n> invited me to do this event), plus the other members whose names\n> escape me that helped me haul stuff to and from my car for the demo.\n> And the 9 stations in the USA, Canada, and Mexico who made contacts\n> with me (Don KD6IRE, John KD6PAG, James KE7KQA, Craig KL4E, Ron\n> VE6RVT, John VE7CBZ, George WA5KBH, Bob WA7HYD, and Manuel\n> XE2BHL).  Being able to make contacts with stations spread out in western\n> North America - plus WA5KBH in Louisiana - helped show that the\n> satellite's footprint covers a large area.\n>\n> If anyone wishes to see the slideshow I presented before the on-air\n> demonstration, along with copies of flyers I have distributed at the\n> meeting last night plus the recent Phoenix-area hamfests, I have all\n> of them on my web page in PDF format.  Follow the link on the home\n> page, and get them there.  My web pages are on free web space at\n> Geocities, so there are bandwidth limits enforced.  If anyone has\n> problems in downloading those files, please e-mail me directly and I\n> will send them to you.  I can also provide an MP3 with the audio from\n> this pass, for anyone that is interested in hearing what we heard last\n> night (MP3 won't be posted on a web page, but available via e-mail).\n>\n> Thanks again, and 73!\n>\n>\n>\n> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Phoenix, Arizona USA\n> http://www.wd9ewk.net/\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\n",
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