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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AAAMGW77VJYPHVW7DCKICNUZ3KOLDHKY/?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]  WD9EWK's first non-FM satellite QSOs today!",
    "date": "2008-08-09T22:50:46Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n \nAfter months of trying to make a portable station that would \nallow me to work the SSB/CW satellites (first with an FT-817ND\nand AOR AR8200Mk2B wide-band receiver, then later with two \nFT-817NDs, all using my Arrow Antennas handheld Yagi), I finally \nmade everything work.  At 1756 and 1758 UTC today, I logged my \nfirst two satellite QSOs not using FM on either the uplink or \ndownlink.  As I expected, it was not an easy thing; FO-29's 2m \nuplink seemed to make it a bit easier than a 70cm uplink like I \nhad tried before on VO-52 or AO-7.  Now, after over 4100 satellite\nQSOs in the last 2 1/2 years or so, I can say I've got at least a\ncouple SSB satellite QSOs to go with the others I've done on FM.\n \nI know that computer control for either - or both - of the radios\nis the preferred way to go.  Less work for the operator, reducing \nhow much my signal moves through the passband due to Doppler, and\nsimply more time to work other stations.  I will most likely end \nup with a portable setup using a small laptop that can control \nthese two FT-817NDs or some other radio(s), eventually.  I will \nalso rig up a tripod or something for the Yagi, or try another \nantenna, so I don't have to hold it while trying to work the \nradio(s).  I decided that the 1745-1759 UTC FO-29 pass this \nmorning to my east would probably be a good pass to try.  Good \nelevation, and a footprint covering most of North America.  I set\nup my radios in the back of my truck just over the line into grid \nDM44ha northeast of Phoenix AZ, and tried my luck.\n\nIt took a couple of minutes to get used to finding my signal in\nthe downlink.  My 5W signal with the Yagi was more than enough. \nI heard some CW early in the pass, then I could hear a couple of\nvoices - Joe K3SZH and Jeff K7WIN.  When those two finished their\nQSO, I quickly called K7WIN.  K3SZH came back instead, and I made \na quick QSO with Joe.  I followed that up with another quick QSO\nwith Jeff K7WIN.  Both Joe and Jeff commented I had a good signal\nthrough the satellite.  Thanks for the QSOs, and especially for\ndealing with my non-automated station near the end of the pass!\n\nNow I can go back to working on VO-52 and AO-7, plus the new Delfi\nsatellite, and see if I can do the same with a non-FM satellite \nusing a 70cm uplink.  And keep on working FO-29, a very nice bird.\nI'm not turning my back on the FM birds, but adding more options \nwhen I want to play radio via satellite.  :-)  \n\n73!\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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