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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK from DM34/DM35/DM36 on 30 May - report (long)",
    "date": "2009-06-01T17:20:31Z",
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    "content": "\nHi!\n\nSaturday was another fun day.  A long day, starting out early at\nthe hamfest in Prescott, Arizona, and ending up at home just \nafter midnight (0700 UTC) after driving approximately 400 miles\n(644km), but a good day.  \n\n\nPrescott Hamfest in Prescott, Arizona (grid DM34sn):\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=34+34.413+n+112+29.800+w&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=54.973803,78.574219&ie=UTF8&ll=34.070862,-112.195129&spn=1.829153,2.455444&t=h&z=9\n\nI started out at the hamfest.  Officially, it did not open until\n0800 local, but I was there when the site was opened for those\nsetting up in one of the spaces two hours earlier.  This let me \nget on the air for an AO-51 pass around 1320 UTC.  This pass was\nmore to hand out contacts with the grid for the hamfest (DM34sn)\nthan a demonstration, but a couple of people stopped by to listen\nin while they were setting up their spaces.  Thanks for the 16 \ncontacts with stations from across the USA, Canada, and Mexico. \nThe later AO-51 pass, just after 1500 UTC, added 5 more contacts\nwith a slightly larger audience - the hamfest officially opened \nat the start of this pass.  \n\nAfter a couple of hours where the crowds started building, VO-52 \npassed by around 1710 UTC.  As I've seen at other hamfests, the\nVO-52 demonstrations seem to attract the largest crowds.  It might\nbe the later pass time, or that SSB via satellite is more of a \ncuriosity than FM, but there was a nice crowd.  For this pass, Ray\nW1OTH - a ham from the Prescott area and AMSAT member - took care\nof the antenna while I worked the radio.  I forgot to mention in \nmy e-mail last week where I would camp out on the downlink, but I\nstarted around 145.910 MHz where I made two quick contacts.  After\nnot hearing anyone else after those contacts, I tuned around and \nwent down a few kHz to work two other stations near the end of the \npass.  Four contacts on a VO-52 pass, where I'm not actively tuning\nthrough the passband looking for every possible QSO, is not a bad\nthing.  The crowd liked it. \n\nNot long after that VO-52 pass, the skies darkened and it started \nto rain.  I felt, and then saw, hail falling.  This did not last \nfor long, but the hamfest emptied out not long after this quick\nburst of bad weather.  Even with the storm, this was a good morning.\nLots of people stopped by, and there appeared to be more people \nat the hamfest this year compared to last year.  Thanks again to\nRay W1OTH for sticking around the AMSAT table for a little while\nand helping with the VO-52 pass.  \n\nAfter the hamfest, the Saturday road trip started.  I was off to \nthe first of my two stops for the radio after the hamfest....\n\n\nnear Drake, Arizona, east of AZ-89 at the DM34tx/DM35ta grid \nboundary:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35+N+112+23.132+W&sll=34.070862,-112.195129&sspn=1.829153,2.455444&ie=UTF8&ll=34.311681,-112.148437&spn=3.64763,4.910889&t=h&z=8\n\nI stopped at this spot a couple of times in 2008, as a way to\noperate from these two grids and not be parked along the nearby\nstate highway.  This is just inside the Prescott National Forest\nnorth of the city of Prescott, and about 15 miles/25km south of\nthe I-40 freeway and old US-66.  Unlike in 2008, AO-27 and SO-50 \nhad overlapping passes in the mid-afternoon from this location.\nI decided to work AO-27 when it was on, not using the PL tone\nneeded for SO-50.  After AO-27 shut off at the end of its repeater\ntime, I would work SO-50 for whatever time was left on each pass.\n\nThe first AO-27/SO-50 passes came around 2037 UTC.  As usual, \nthere were many stations out for the pass.  In 7 minutes, I logged \n15 QSOs before switching to SO-50.  In the last few minutes of the \nSO-50 pass, 4 more QSOs went in the log.  Not a bad effort, other \nthan dealing with the overlapping footprints for the two satellites.\n\nA little later, the two satellites were passing by to the west of \nmy location.  Again, starting with AO-27 while it was on, I worked\n7 stations from central Mexico to western Canada.  My time on SO-50\nafter AO-27's scheduled shutdown was limited by an impending \nthunderstorm and a quick visit by a Forest Service ranger.  The \nranger asked if I was looking for a missing dog, and I explained \nthat I was not tracking animals with my setup.  I had a chance to\nacknowledge 2 stations I heard on SO-50 after that, before I heard\nsome thunder near me.  That was my cue to pack up and move on to my\nlast stop of the day.\n\n\nGrand Canyon Village, Arizona - south of the lodges along the South \nRim in Grand Canyon National Park (grid DM36wb):\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=36+3.195+N+112+8.611+W&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.279921,78.574219&ie=UTF8&ll=34.741612,-111.917725&spn=3.62886,4.910889&t=h&z=8\n\nI drove through a hard rain to get from DM34tx/DM35ta up to the \nGrand Canyon, but it stopped raining about 20 miles/32km before I\nreached the national park entrance.  The DM35/DM36 grid boundary\nwas right at the entrance, but that was not a good place to set \nup.  No places to park, and the line was right at the booths for\nthe park rangers to collect the admission fees.  I planned to go \ninto the park and find the best spot I could, which would be\nsomewhere firmly in grid DM36.  \n\nGrand Canyon Village is a small town inside the national park, \nalong the South Rim.  Most of the lodges (hotels) on this side of\nthe park are here.  I took some pictures as I drove from the park \nentrance to the parking lot I decided to work from (Parking Lot \n\"E\", south of the lodges at the South Rim), and waited for the \nfirst AO-51 pass around 0028 UTC. \n\nI knew there were some hills that ringed Grand Canyon Village, and\nthose hills meant I had to wait almost 2 minutes after the predicted\nAOS time before I could clearly hear the AO-51 downlink.  Once I \nheard it, I announced my location.  Then the fun began - lots of QSOs\nfor stations across North America.  In the span of 11 minutes, 22\ncontacts were logged.  No Canadians, but many from all over the \ncontinental US and a couple of XE stations went in the log.  I guess\nDM36 was a rare grid for many on the satellites.  :-) \n\nBetween that pass and the later AO-51 pass to the west, I did some \nsightseeing around the village and along the South Rim.  A weird\n(at first) sight was seeing some deer grazing in the rail yard at\nthe Grand Canyon train depot.  This is still a working depot, for\nthe Grand Canyon Railway that runs daily between the Grand Canyon\nand the city of Williams about 60 miles/100km to the south, a \nfavorite for tourists who do not want to drive into the park.  Lots\nof people were taking pictures as the deer ate some grass and \nwandered around the railroad tracks.  \n\nI went back to the parking lot after taking lots of photos, and \nwas ready for the western AO-51 pass that started around 0208 UTC.\nI worked 8 stations on this pass - 1 in Alaska (thanks KL7XJ!),\nthe rest in the continental USA.  I made another sightseeing stop\nat another point along the South Rim as I left the national park,\nto start my almost 4-hour drive back home.  \n\n\nFor any contacts made with WD9EWK on Saturday - at the hamfest, or\nafter the hamfest - I will be happy to send out QSL cards.  I have\ncards ready for QSOs made at the hamfest, and will have cards for\nthe other two locations in the next day or two.  No need to send\nme QSLs or SASEs for Saturday - just e-mail me directly with QSO \ndetails.  If you are in my log, you'll get a card (or cards) for\nthe contact(s).  I will also send out cards from my trip to Dayton\ntwo weeks ago with these cards, all going out in the same envelopes.  \n\nI was asked on the air if I was using my new Alinco DJ-G7T on any\nof the Saturday FM satellite passes.  I was not - I was using my\nIcom IC-2720H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio.  Since I'm still tweaking\nthat radio, I will leave that to other passes where I am not trying\nto demonstrate satellite operation or when I'm parked in unusual\nlocations.  \n\nIncluding my drive up to Prescott on Friday (29 May) evening, I \ndrove just under 500 miles/800km for this trip.  The hamfest was \nfun, the two stops after the hamfest - putting some rare Arizona \ngrids on the satellites for a few passes - went well.  Thanks to \neveryone who worked WD9EWK during the hamfest demonstrations, as\nthose contacts help show off the capabilities of our current \nsatellites and how it doesn't take lots of fancy (and expensive)\ngear to enjoy this part of our hobby.  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n",
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