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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Superstition Superfest @ Mesa AZ on 5 December - report",
    "date": "2015-12-07T18:16:48Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nSaturday at the Superstition Amateur Radio Club's Superstition Superfest\nhamfest in Mesa, Arizona (an east-side suburb of Phoenix) was an enjoyable\nday. Unlike most hamfests around Arizona that typically wrap up by midday,\nthis hamfest actually had buyers and sellers sticking around until the\nofficial end of the event (2pm, 2100 UTC). With the great weather on\nSaturday here in the Phoenix area, it wasn't hard to spend the morning and\nthe early afternoon at the hamfest.\n\nAs with most hamfests here, the official start time for the Superstition\nSuperfest was 7am (1400 UTC). I was out there a couple of hours before\nthat, and there were several sellers and a few buyers walking around even\nat that hour. By being there so early, I was able to try an AO-85 pass\njust after 5.15am (1215 UTC). I heard someone else accessing the satellite\nfor most of the pass, then worked one station in Minnesota near my LOS.\nSince this was about 90 minutes before sunrise, I had no problems seeing\nthe screen on my 8-inch Windows 10 tablet, and I used my SDRplay SDR\nreceiver for the AO-85 downlink. I was able to upload 19 telemetry frames\nfrom that pass, in addition to making one contact through the FM\ntransponder.\n\nAs the hamfest officially started, the crowds came by and asked a lot of\nquestions about satellites. It helps to have so many satellites launched in\nthe past couple of months, including AO-85, to talk about. I had passes of\nXW-2F, SO-50, and AO-73 throughout the morning for demonstrations, to give\na nice mix of FM and SSB satellite operating. I also had the pleasure of\nseeing a couple of satellite operators: Steve W5IEM visiting from Kentucky,\nand Ed N7EC - a local ham who has been on the FM satellites from DM33 north\nof Phoenix lately.\n\nBy midday, with crowds still hanging around the hamfest, I decided to stick\naround for early-afternoon FO-29 and AO-85 passes. The two AO-85 passes,\naround 1915 and 2055 UTC, were the first two passes I had tried with just\nmy Icom IC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio without an SDR receiver for the\ndownlink. It worked fine, but I have been spoiled by the SDR receiver and\nsoftware. Being able to make my own audio filtering with HDSDR, and the FM\nAFC function to track the downlink from AOS to LOS, work so well for AO-85.\nFO-29 around 2015 UTC, with a coast-to-coast footprint, was just as much\nfun. A local ham had been making videos while I worked FO-29 and the last\nAO-85 pass, and I hope to have details on where those might be online in a\ncouple of days.\n\nI worked 8 different passes from the hamfest - three on AO-85, 2 on SO-50,\nand one each on 3 transponder satellites (AO-73, FO-29, XW-2F), logging a\ntotal of 38 contacts on those passes. Thanks to everyone who called WD9EWK\nand helped with these demonstrations! My log from Saturday is now in the\nLogbook of the World, and I am happy to send out QSL cards on request\n(please e-mail me directly with QSO details, so I can verify that against\nmy log).\n\nThis hamfest will probably be the last event for 2015 where I am attending\nand representing AMSAT, the 19th event where I have done this during the\nyear. Of the 19 events, 15 were at locations around Arizona, and 4 others\nwere in southern California. With the launch of AMSAT's first Fox-1\nsatellite (AO-85), plus other amateur satellites including the September\nlaunch of the Chinese XW-2 satellites along with LilacSat-2 and others, as\nwell as the upcoming projects. I'll pick up with attending hamfests around\nArizona in the new year with the Thunderbird Hamfest in Phoenix on the\nsecond Saturday of next month (9 January 2016). Hamfests that I, and other\nAMSAT Area Coordinators will be attending, are listed at:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=218\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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