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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/AWJGPC6JTF2F5KEP7JGYBGUKIADNR3WL/?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] AMSAT @ Scottsdale AZ hamfest, 19 March 2016 - report",
    "date": "2016-03-21T03:31:55Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI had an AMSAT table at the Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club's \"Springfest\"\nhamfest, held in a church parking lot yesterday (Saturday, 19 March)\nmorning. This hamfest is one of the 3 major hamfests for the Phoenix area\nin the non-summer season, and the good weather helped to bring the crowds\nout. Lots of buyers and sellers, and lots of interest in AMSAT and amateur\nsatellites.\n\nWith the launches of AO-85 and the 9 Chinese amateur satellites in the past\n6 months, many hams are taking a closer look at this part of the hobby. For\nsome, the recent launches and projects currently in the pipeline are\nbringing some back to the satellites. Along with talking about satellites,\nmany copies of AMSAT's \"Getting Started with Amateur Satellites\" flew off\nmy AMSAT table. Demonstrations, whether at 6am (1300 UTC) or 11am (1800\nUTC), had nice crowds.\n\nIt was nice to have AO-85 available during the morning, as SO-50 was not\npassing by during the morning. I also had 4 other satellites that were used\nfor demonstrations - AO-73, XW-2A, XW-2C, and XW-2F. The three XW-2\nsatellites were passing by in the first couple of hours, and AO-73 and\nAO-85 came by later in the morning. For all of these passes, I used my\nSDRplay SDR receiver for the downlinks, connected to an 8-inch Windows10\ntablet and HDSDR software running on the tablet.\n\nAs I have seen at other recent events, using an SDR receiver makes for more\nconversations - and not just in the context of working satellites. With all\nof these satellites employing a 70cm uplink and 2m downlink, I didn't have\nto worry so much about the sunlight making the tablet's LCD panel\nunreadable. Once I set my downlink frequency on the tablet, and for AO-85\nactivate AFC in HDSDR to track the downlink, I only had to worry about\nusing the wheel on a Bluetooth mouse for fine-tuning. Despite some QRM in\nthe area of the hamfest site, northeast of a nearby airport, the SDRplay\ndid a decent job hearing all of these downlinks. For AO-73 and AO-85, I was\nable to play back the RF recordings I made with HDSDR later at home, so I\ncould upload telemetry to each satellite's telemetry server from those\npasses. By the way, HDSDR's recordings do a much better job picking up\nAO-73 telemetry than I ever saw when I used the FUNcube Dashboard to\ndirectly receive the telemetry and then upload the data to the FUNcube data\nwarehouse server. Same thing for copying AO-85 telemetry - HDSDR's RF\nrecordings do better for capturing the data than I saw when using the\nFoxTelem software to directly control my FUNcube Dongle Pro+.\n\nFor those who worked WD9EWK during those demonstrations - THANK YOU! The\ndemonstrations make a positive impression on this part of the hobby for the\ncrowds. My mockup of the AO-85 satellite - a 4-inch cube of wood, with two\nwhips representing the antennas coming out of two sides - also helps to\nreinforce that small satellites can do more than \"beep\" in orbit. AO-73 and\nAO-85, in particular, are great examples of what we can do with small\nsatellites. I have uploaded my log to Logbook of the World from these\ndemonstrations, and am happy to send QSL cards to anyone who would like one\nfor QSOs during the hamfest (just e-mail me with the QSO details - no need\nto send me a card and self-addressed stamped envelope).\n\nThanks again, and 73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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