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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK - Field Day 2011 report",
    "date": "2011-06-28T00:05:32Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nGlad to see this old-school e-mail list is getting a workout today. :-)\nDespite all the complaining about how crowded the satellite passes were\nover the weekend, it was fun to get one.  I try to make time to work \nField Day, even if it is just the satellites, as a reason to get out \nof the desert heat. \n\nAs I have done since 2009, I parked at a Garland Prairie Vista Picnic\nGround in the Kaibab National Forest.  This is along old US-66, north\nof the I-40 freeway and 20 miles/32km west of Flagstaff in northern\nArizona.  I knew of this place from trips to the DM35xg/DM45ag grid\nboundary just west of this site, and being up in the mountains and \ntrees is a lot better than the desert heat.  I brought the two FT-817NDs\nI normally use on the non-FM satellites, along with a TH-F6A (backup \nradio for satellite operating, and possibly useful for VHF/UHF FM \nQSOs during Field Day) and my IC-703 HF/6m transceiver.  Besides the\nElk 2m/70cm log periodic I use on the satellites, I brought an Outbacker\nJoey HF/VHF vertical and a Buddipole multiband dipole that would really\ncome in handy during this Field Day.  \n\nSince 2001, I have generally worked Field Day as a 1B/1-operator/battery\nstation transmitting at 5 watts.  I may be a glutton for punishment, but\nQRP power levels make it easier to power the equipment.  I had printed \nout the pass predictions for the day, so I didn't need a computer running\ntracking software.  The IC-703 is a 10W transceiver, but I dialed it down\nto the 5W level so I could qualify for the 5x power multiplier under the\nARRL rules.  The FT-817NDs and TH-F6A are 5W transceivers, so I left their\npower settings on \"high\", and hoped for the best. \n\nI started out on 15m using the IC-703 and Outbacker Joey, then switched\nperiodically to 6m using the Buddipole dipole.  I would jump from band\nto band as I heard activity, and also worked many Arizona stations on \n6m.  For the first time in Field Day, I completed a terrestrial 2m FM\nQSO with a group on a mountain about 40 miles/64km south of me.  I used\nthe TH-F6A with a Diamond tri-band antenna on it, and had a nice chat \nwith that group after making the Field Day exchange.\n\nAs for the satellites, I did not do as well this year.  I confined my \nFM activity to only the west-coast passes.  I made one QSO on SO-50\non the 2030 UTC pass Saturday afternoon, but the other station did not \noffer the Field Day exchange.  My first Field Day satellite QSO was on\nthe west-coast AO-27 pass an hour later.  After making the QSO that I\nwill score in my log, I also made a couple of other non-point QSOs as\nI detailed in an earlier post.  \n\nOne of the things I wanted to try this Field Day was AO-7 in mode A.\nI had one chance to do that, on the pass around 2230 UTC Saturday \nafternoon before the mode change approximately an hour later.  I \nwas unsuccessful in making a QSO on this pass, but I was successful\nin hearing myself on the 10m downlink using the IC-703 with my\nBuddipole dipole reconfigured for this pass (one side vertical, the\nother side horizontal, set for resonance around 29.450 MHz), in CW \nand SSB.  This was a great test, and I hope to make mode A QSOs on \nAO-7 in the near future.  I tried the next AO-7 pass in mode B, \nbut had no luck completing a QSO there.  That happens sometimes,\nand I'm not complaining.  \n\nOn FO-29 a little while later, I had a hard time hearing myself.  \nWhen I moved up the passband a bit, I could hear myself, but nobody\nelse joined me up there.  I was able to make one QSO toward the end\nof the pass, as other stations wrapped up their activity and there\nwere fewer signals on the uplink.  Not too bad.  I tried the next\nFO-29 pass that covered the west coast, but could not get through \nwell enough for a couple of stations to copy my call correctly.  \nOh well... \n\nAs was mentioned previously, the AO-51 pass up the west coast just\nafter 0000 UTC was a nice pass.  I will try to post my audio recording\nof that pass, to show how things calmed down toward the end of the \npass.  I made my points-earning QSO early in the pass, then answered\nothers who were calling WD9EWK, and even worked one station that was\nnot interested in a Field Day exchange.  I gave him my grid locator\n(DM45) in place of \"1B-AZ\".  \n\nI tried the shallow VO-52 pass just before 0200 UTC, after copying the\nW1AW phone bulletin that started at 0145 UTC.  I think the mountains \nto the east didn't let me have more than a couple of minutes to hear \nthe satellite.  At this point, I wanted to stick around for the next\nVO-52 pass, but by then it would be completely dark in the forest \nexcept for my flashlights.  I also had to return home that evening, \ndue to other things I needed to do Sunday.  \n\nI still have to put together my log for submission to ARRL and AMSAT,\nbut I know I didn't make as many QSOs - satellite, or overall - this\nyear.  For satellites, I had a total of 3 QSOs that will go on my\nsubmission.  I was disappointed I couldn't get QSOs on AO-7 or VO-52,\nbut being able to hear myself on AO-7 in mode A made up for that. \nHearing several familiar voices - some working with their own callsigns,\nand several others with different calls - was nice.  Those experienced\noperators probably helped their groups get QSOs and the satellite bonus.\n\nI posted some photos of my station as part of my \"soapbox\" submission\non the ARRL web site at:\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/soapboxes/view/7763\n\nI also recorded a short video showing my station, which can be\nviewed at:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8BGbDVBXTA\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK \nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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