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    "sender_name": "Larry Teran",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award",
    "date": "2013-08-23T17:54:14Z",
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    "content": "Nice to hear that and Congratulations to you John!\n\n\nOn Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:08 PM, John Papay <[email protected]> wrote:\n\n> Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware\n> that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated\n> from CN72 in Oregon.  And I thought it might be interesting\n> to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm\n> all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.\n>\n> Satellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them.\n> A grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is\n> off the air when that person goes away for whatever reason.\n> Interestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were\n> from those operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio\n> with batteries, but in the traditional sense of operating away from\n> their home station location.  Once you have experienced being on the\n> other end of a small pileup, you will want to do it again.  Just ask\n> W7LRD who tried it recently and is planning another trip.  Here is\n> a list of operators who exited the comfort of their home station and\n> put a grid on the air.  The callsign is followed by the number of new\n> grids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488.  Others may have\n> been worked but these totals represent the first time a new grid was\n> confirmed.\n>\n> ND9M 54\n> WD9EWK 27\n> WC7V 19\n> KD4ZGW 16\n> KB0RZD 10\n> KC0YBM 9\n> AA5CK 8\n> KA6SIP 8\n> KD8COQ 8\n> N5ZNL 7\n> W6GMT 7\n> N0JE 6\n> N2SPI 6\n> WA4NVM 5\n> KB5WIA 4\n> KB9BIT 4\n> KC0ZHF 4\n> KK0SD 4\n> AA5PK 3\n> K7CWQ 3\n> UT1FG 3\n> W6ZKH 3\n> WA6ARA 3\n> WA7HQD 3\n> WA8SME 3\n> AC0ZA 2\n> AJ9K 2\n> K0BAM 2\n> K7DRA 2\n> K7TRK 2\n> KA0RID 2\n> KC2LRC 2\n> KE7DOV 2\n> N3TL 2\n> N5AFV 2\n>\n> Jim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner.  Along with working\n> satellites he is also active on the county hunters nets.  Most of\n> his activity was between 2009 and 2011.  He was also active from a\n> cargo ship and gave out the very rare DM02.  Jim would travel for\n> months at a time and worked from a few hundred grids.  Most of that\n> operating was done on FM birds rather than linear ones.  It was\n> great to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51 were active.\n> HO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too.  54 new grids came\n> from Jim and he tops the list.\n>\n> Most everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK.  He has done a lot of traveling\n> both in the US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids.  He was very\n> active on the birds until recently.  He was an alternate on the AMSAT\n> Board of Directors and was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT\n> Area Coordinator program.  He virtually has no home station and most\n> all local contacts were made from a park near his apartment in Phoenix.\n> He knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner.\n>\n> Next on the list is Kerry WC7V.  He lives in sparsely populated Montana\n> and travels around by car and in his light aircraft.  He went to many\n> grids at my request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from\n> many rare locations.  He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids.\n>\n> Next on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m.  Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all\n> heard him on a satellite one day.  He didn't know his grid square but\n> he knew his milepost on the interstate.  From there we had the grid\n> square.  Rob went on to improve his mobile station and activated over\n> 100 grid squares.  He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not\n> been active for some time.  He is fourth on the list with 16 grids.\n>\n> The next three are very special because they all became new operators\n> during the quest to work all 488.  Gail KB0RZD is very active today,\n> usually operating with a handie-talkie.  He went to 10 grids around him\n> and sent some photo qsl cards that were just outstanding.  KC0YBM operated\n> from his home location for a long time before I realized he was very\n> close to other grids.  Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested\n> he look into an AC inverter for the car.  He did just that and soon he\n> was operating portable from some new grids.  This speaks to the ham radio\n> culture that you find a way to operate with what you have.  Chris continues\n> to be active and hands out grids in the US and Canada.  And then there\n> is Ted, AA5CK. He has operated in grids around his home qth as well as\n> some rare ones in New Mexico.  He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where\n> I made my first grid expedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of\n> the White Dog Ranch on old Route 66.  I remember Ted's first sat contact.\n>\n> There are a few very special operators that can't be left out.  My son,\n> KD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad.  He knows how to operate\n> portable and gives out the grids when he travels.  Then there was\n> Richard N2SPI.  I asked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been\n> on and he took the challenge and drove to all of them, getting back to\n> his dad's place during the first snow of the season.  Dave KB5WIA made\n> quite the trip by backpacking into CM79.  It took two trips to transport\n> the equipment into the grid.  He has a video of it on youtube.\n>\n> I started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August\n> 2008.  From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109.  In 2009 199\n> were worked.  2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44.  Only 4 new grids were worked\n> in 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013.  Eight of those final 9 grids were\n> handed out by Tom KA6SIP.  He heard about the need and decided to make a\n> grid expedition to put them on the air.  He did 7 of them in one trip.\n> Then Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for\n> the first time.  That left CN72.  Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly\n> made plans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20\n> August\n> 2013 at 2332z.  Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very\n> rare grid square but one that I already had.  Many others worked him there.\n>\n> There is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is\n> for six meters (FFMA).  The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will\n> implement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote\n> and it passes.  Hopefully that will happen soon.  Having that type of award\n> gives everyone something to work for.  It promotes grid expeditions and\n> interest in working through the satellites.  If we all contact our\n> ARRL Director, it might just happen.\n>\n> There may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites.\n> K6YK might be one of them.  I know there are several others who are\n> getting close.  It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate\n> every day.  It is something you can work towards over the years.\n>\n> I want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that\n> ultimately\n> led to working all 488.  Many went out of their way to put on a grid.  Over\n> half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions!  If you haven't\n> experienced\n> operating away from home, please consider it.  With new operators showing\n> up\n> on the birds every day, there is always a need for an uncommon grid.  And\n> you\n> will have a lot of fun doing it!  Just ask anyone on my list.\n>\n> 73,\n> John K8YSE\n>\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<http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>\n>\n",
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