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        "address": "updwrb (a) bristor-assoc.com",
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    "sender_name": "w4upd",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: UT1FG/MM Welland Canal",
    "date": "2012-04-10T17:04:37Z",
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    "content": "Kind of cool and sounds like a lot of fun. I decided to try Yuri's \nmovements on a marine traffic URL. The chart can be be found at:\n\nhttp://marinetraffic.com/ais/\n\nYou can put in the name of the ship. In this case just the Barnacle \nworks. At this email writing, the chart shows him at: N46. 31', 01.62\", \nW072, 12'53.89\" or\n46.5171, 072.2150\nOf course by the time this email gets out he'll be a different location. \nThis program is neat and I use ti to track passenger ships as well.\n\nAgain, sounds like a really neat experience that most of us would envy.\n\nReid, W4UPD\n\n\n\nOn 4/10/2012 12:07 PM, John Papay wrote:\n> Yuri, UT1FG/MM, left Thunder Bay Ontario on Lake Superior\n> a few days ago with a cargo of Oats and Wheat destined for\n> San Juan Puerto Rico. He had gone through the Welland Canal\n> which connects Lake Ontario to Lake Erie on the way to\n> Thunder Bay and would come back through on his way out. The\n> Welland Canal is very long, has 8 locks and takes the boat from\n> a water elevation of 572' in Lake Erie to 246' in Lake Ontario.\n> On the way in it took him about 8 hours to go through.\n>\n> My thought was to drive up there and watch him go through and hope\n> we could get within shouting distance of one another. But where you\n> do go to get close and how do you find your way around in unfamiliar\n> territory? You may have heard VE3RCN on the birds, sometimes from\n> different grids and sometimes on the warship Haida. Kevin is in the\n> Royal Canadian Navy (hence the callsign) and makes his home in Welland!\n> After some email exchanges and some research on Kevin's part he offered\n> to host my time in the area. That took all of the stress out of the\n> situation. He knew everything about the canal.\n>\n> Yuri sailed out of the Detroit River on Saturday night and into Lake\n> Erie. I was able to contact him on 144.200 sideband where we chatted\n> for almost an hour, much different than the quick grid square exchange\n> on the birds. He estimated being at Lock 8 in the Welland Canal around\n> 8am. After 4 hours of sleep and a quick shower I was on the road at \n> 3:15am.\n> After a few questions by Canadian Customs (they know what to ask to \n> determine\n> if you are telling the truth), I was in Canada. About 15 minutes out of\n> Port Colborne, the entrance to the canal, Yuri called on 146.52 to say he\n> was about 15 miles out. Fifteen miles later I was at Tim Horton's (the\n> Canadian Starbucks equivalent) where I was to meet Kevin, VE3RCN/VA3OR.\n> He arrived their shortly after me and we were off to the Lake Erie shore\n> to catch a glimpse of the MV Barnacle. And there she was off in the \n> distance.\n> It was all coming together. The Lake was calm, the sun was shining, it \n> was\n> about 32 degrees but there was no wind. The fish were jumping.\n>\n> After the ship started moving closer to the channel we got into position\n> to watch it come in. As it rounded the bend and we could see the bridge,\n> Yuri spotted us immediately and was waving. He seemed as excited as we\n> were. As he got closer we were able to shout back and forth. At Lock\n> 8, the first lock, we were able to talk back and forth; we were very \n> close.\n> There are places on the canal where you can stand on the bank and put \n> your\n> hand on the ship going by. The clearance may only be six inches.\n>\n> After that we went to get some breakfast; then we lost track of where \n> Yuri\n> was. Kevin made a quick call to his xyl Donna, VE3WIZ, and she was able\n> to relay his position so we could catch up with him again. We waited for\n> him to pass over the highway at Thorold. The road actually goes under the\n> canal! Next stop, Lock 7.\n>\n> We were waiting for Yuri at Lock 7 where the Canal Pilot changes. We were\n> standing at the fence when things started to come together. The \n> invitation\n> to come on board was given and before I knew it I was ushered over the \n> lock\n> to the other side of the ship and boarded as the ship lowered to the dock\n> level. A minute later I was on the bridge with Captain Yuri UT1FG. \n> Finally\n> I was able to meet a guy that I've been working on the satellites in\n> hundreds of water grids since April 2009! At that point Kevin went back\n> home to get Donna and they then followed us down the canal, waving and\n> watching us at every highway crossing and vantage point.\n>\n> An experienced Canal Pilot takes command of the ship through the \n> locks. He\n> stands on the port or starboard side of the bridge so he can see the \n> ship's\n> hull with respect to the edge of the canal. There may be only inches to\n> spare so it is a tedious effort. The Pilot calls out the commands \n> (Starboard\n> 20, Port 10, Slow Ahead etc) and the first officer carries out the \n> orders.\n> Yuri is usually with the Pilot and helps relay the commands etc. There is\n> very little time for anything else except when you are actually \n> stopped in\n> the lock. It's one thing to see the ship going through the locks from\n> land but quite another to experience the change of level from inside the\n> lock itself. It truly was an experience of a lifetime.\n>\n> Yuri took me to his cabin one level below the bridge. His quarters are\n> quite nice and private. This is where he operates with his IC706, \n> manually\n> tuning the radio and doing a great job at that! The power supply from \n> HP1CQ\n> sat on the table in the corner and a computer running Orbitron is on \n> the other\n> side. Yuri now has an ELK antenna installed (thanks to the efforts of\n> Rick, WA4NVM). It is mounted on a manually rotatable mast that goes up\n> from the bridge, starboard side, directly above his cabin. The ELK is\n> tilted up at 15 degrees and was just installed on the way back from\n> Thunder Bay. The CJU antenna is mounted on the crossboom next to the ELK.\n> A vertical for 2 meters is on a separate mast above those antennas. Until\n> this season Yuri only used the 2 meter vertical for transmit and receive.\n> It is amazing that he was able to make any contacts with just that \n> antenna.\n> The CJU improved things greatly and the ELK takes it to a new level. He\n> worked PV8DX right at his horizon on FO-29 with it. Yuri has SatPC32 but\n> has not installed it yet due to time constraints. When he is out in the\n> Ocean again, he will install it and get his radio interfaced. This will\n> make it much easier for him to stay on frequency and focus on operating.\n> Yuri also has a 6 meter rotatable dipole and a end fed long wire that \n> goes\n> from the bridge to the top of the first two cranes.\n>\n> The MV Barnacle is a sister ship to the Mottler, the ship that he \n> captained\n> last season. It was also built in 2009 and is owned by a Canadian company\n> based in Montreal. The engine room boasts a 10,000 horsepower plant and\n> is controlled by state of the art electronics. I was able to \n> experience an\n> excellent meal on the ship in addition to touring the ship with the Chief\n> Engineer.\n>\n> Time passes quickly and soon we were at Lock 2 where it was decided I\n> should depart. Kevin and Donna were waiting there for me; we were 30\n> miles away from where my car was parked. We stopped at McDonald's to\n> demonstrate my remote control setup but the wifi failed so we couldn't\n> do that. After a nice drive and some good conversation we were back at\n> Tim Horton's in Port Colborne. At the US border crossing the agent\n> questioned me as to why I would drive all that way on Easter Sunday just\n> to see a ship go through the canal. After I explained that the captain\n> was a ham radio operator that I had talked with around the world but\n> never met he handed back my passport and said \"GO!\"\n>\n> I want to thank Kevin VA3OR/VE3RCN and his wife Donna, VE3WIZ, for \n> spending\n> their Easter Sunday hosting my visit to the Canal. I'm sure they had\n> better things to do but they decided to take me all around and make my\n> visit a memorable one. I hope they enjoyed the day as much as I did.\n>\n> And a big thanks to Master Yuri Bodrov and his crew for their \n> hospitality.\n> And also to the Canal Pilot who guided this massive ship through the \n> locks\n> with great precision. It was an experience that very few will ever have.\n>\n> Yuri is headed down the seaway and should be traveling through new water\n> grids on the way to San Juan PR. He is due there on 4/20. He will stay\n> on until at least the end of May. He does not know where he will go after\n> San Juan. He has truly made operating the birds exciting. QSL to his \n> manager\n> UX0FY (on qrz.com). He has ordered 5000 more qsl cards which should\n> arrive shortly.\n>\n> 73,\n> John K8YSE\n>\n>\n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite \n> program!\n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n\n",
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