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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/A72GXJL3BJH7ZZH35C24U2H6FVP7HNE3/?format=api",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  CN89 and the USA/Canada border on Friday,\tCO80 on Saturday",
    "date": "2010-07-09T07:38:18Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI did not plan on a lot of radio today, since I was in metro Vancouver and\nCN89 is not a rare grid.  I worked a couple of AO-7 passes, and a few others\nfrom two different locations south of Vancouver.  One of those locations \nwas standing on the USA/Canada border, west of the Peace Arch at the border\nbetween Washington state and British Columbia.  \n\nThe first location was in grid CN89ob, a few miles/km north of the USA \nborder in the south-side suburb of Surrey.  I was heading down to the town\nof White Rock, which has a beach and was rather crowded today due to the heat\ngripping British Columbia just as it has much of eastern North America. \nI worked 2 HO-68 passes, 2 AO-7 passes, and an AO-27 pass.  Twenty QSOs \nwent in the log at this location.  After spending some time in the town of\nWhite Rock, just north of the USA border with a busy waterfront, I went to\nthe spot where I had thought about working some passes before I came up to\nVancouver - at the Peace Arch, on the USA/Canada border between Washington\nstate and British Columbia, where the I-5 and BC-99 freeways come together. \n\nPeace Arch Park is actually two separate parks divided by the border - a \nprovincial park in British Columbia, and a state park in Washington state.\nEffectively, this is one large park that sprawls across the border, with \nthe white arch standing on the border along with the other boundary markers\nin the park(s).  As long as one exits the park the way it was entered, there\nare no border checks.  I could not drive out to this point, but I could walk\nout there.  I did that, taking my IC-T7H HT along with my Elk 2m/70cm log \nperiodic, a camera, and my Garmin GPS receiver. \n\nAt this point on the USA/Canada border, it is supposed to be at 49 degrees\nNorth exactly.  Surveying technology over 100 years ago is not what it is now,\nand the international border through the park is just north of 49 degrees \nNorth.  I stood next to a metal marker west of the Peace Arch in CN89oa \n(49 0.119 N 122 45.438 W).  I stood with one foot on each side of the border,\nand identified my station using both of my callsigns WD9EWK and VA7EWK during\ntwo passes - one AO-27 pass, followed by an AO-51 pass.  This was the first \ntime I had every worked satellites from Washington state, albeit with only one\nfoot inside the state.\n\nIt was a hot day for this part of North America.  Vancouver saw 95F/35C, and \nin the sunlight I was sweating a lot.  I stood at the border to work the AO-27\npass at 2218 UTC, and 7 minutes was more than enough.  I was able to log 6 \nQSOs with stations from central Mexico up to Vancouver itself on this pass. \nI had thought about heading back to Vancouver after this pass, but thought I \nmight try the upcoming AO-51 pass around 2307 UTC.  I stayed, sitting in the \nshade just north of the boundary until the AO-51 pass.  Despite using only 5\nwatts sitting so far west on a pass to my east, I was able to log 10 more QSOs\non AO-51.  Then I walked north back to my rental car - sitting in a parking \nlot on the Canadian side of the border - to return to Vancouver for the rest\nof the day.  \n\nAround the time of the AO-51 pass, a couple of US Customs and Border Protection\noffices walked by me while escorting someone to the Canada Customs building on\nthe north side of the park.  A few minutes later, the officers passed by me as\nI walked back to my car.  Other than pleasantries, there were no questions \nabout the radio and antenna I was carrying with me.  Had I tried to bring more\ngear, and especially if I carried the gear in a bag or backpack, it is possible\nthere would have been more interest in what I was doing while standing on the\ninternational border.  \n\nMuch of the border east of this park in this area has no fence, and only has \nthe concrete border markers.  There is water to the west.  Between patrols by \nofficials on both sides, along with cameras and other sensors that monitor for \npeople crossing away from an official border crossing, I figured the park had \nto be the place I attempted this.  I had no intention of trying this from any \nother point on the border, since I could stay within the boundaries of the two\nparks and freely cross between the two countries without issue.  I did put my \nUS passport in my pocket, just in case - but it was not needed.  \n\nI will have double-sided QSL cards prepared for the QSOs made at the border. \nOne side will have information for the USA side of the border (Blaine, \nWashington, in Whatcom County), and the other for Surrey, British Columbia.\nFor these QSOs, and any others during this trip, I will be happy to send you\nmy QSL card(s) if you e-mail me with the QSO details.  For contacts with \nVA7EWK, I *am* interested in receiving your QSL cards.  \n\nTomorrow (Friday) will be my day-trip toward Whistler and grid CO80.  Whenever\nI wake up, I will get ready for the two-hour drive up from Vancouver.  I hope\nto be up there in time for passes in the afternoon, but may get up there \nearlier.  I am not going to commit to a specific time or time window when to \nlook for me, since it is now 0040 local (0740 UTC), and I need to get some \nsleep.  I will work both FM and SSB satellites, including AO-7 after 0000 UTC\nwhen it should return to mode B.  I may not be on every pass in the afternoon \nand early evening, but will try to make a decent effort to be on from CO80.  \nIf I have Internet access from wherever I stop and operate from, I will post \na message to the -BB.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick VA7EWK/WD9EWK - North Vancouver, British Columbia\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\n",
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