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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DWZT67YMTYMNBE4WDEDJDI6RBK5SJ3MH/?format=api",
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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] My 6-7 June road trip, lots of miles & grids - report",
    "date": "2015-06-16T23:19:30Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI'm a little tardy in sending this e-mail out, but wanted to post a report\non my road trip to northern Arizona and southern Utah on the weekend of 6-7\nJune. After over 1100 miles in just over two days, I had fun hosting an AMSAT\ntable at a hamfest, followed by a lot of driving and operating.\n\nI made the 3-hour drive up to Show Low, in eastern Arizona the night before\nthe White Mountain Hamfest on 6 June. I drove through rain and some fog up\nto Show Low, which made the morning a little cooler. A nice crowd showed up\nfor the half-day hamfest, and WD9EWK was on a couple of SO-50 passes followed\nby an AO-73 pass during the morning. The hamfest was located in grid DM44xg,\nnear the Show Low city hall and the US-60/AZ-260 junction. By 11.30am (1830\nUTC), the hamfest was wrapping up. This gave me about 2 hours to get to the\nfirst post-hamfest stop of this road trip - the DM54bx/DM55ba grid boundary,\nalong old US-66 and I-40, about an hour north of the hamfest site.\n\nThe DM54bx/DM55ba grid boundary is a place I have worked from several times\nin the past few years, most recently in June 2014 after the same hamfest. I\nplanned to work AO-7 and FO-29 from here, so I could get these two grids on\nthe air. The AO-7 pass came first, and I was able to make two SSB QSOs before\nthe satellite was forced from mode B to mode A (thanks KG5CCI & N4UFO!). It\nis unfortunate that stations still insist on running lots of power when\nworking AO-7, in SSB and especially CW. FO-29 came by a few minutes later,\nand that was better. Three more stations went in the log on that pass, then\nit was time to hit the road again.\n\nI had received requests to work from grid DM45 during this weekend, and I was\nable to do that for the later AO-7 and FO-29 passes. I drove about\n50 miles/80km west on I-40 to Winslow, near the southeast corner of grid\nDM45. After making a stop at \"the corner in Winslow, Arizona\" for some\npictures, I drove east to the end of old US-66 and parked in front of an old\ntrading post to work AO-7 and FO-29 from here. These two passes were both\nalmost directly overhead for this location, and this time AO-7 stayed in mode\nB for the entire pass. Five stations were logged on AO-7, and six more on\nFO-29.\n\n>From Winslow, I drove about 60 miles/100km west to Flagstaff for dinner and\nfuel, before turning north on US-89 to Page and Lake Powell, at the\nArizona/Utah state line. For the drive between Flagstaff and Page, I stopped\nat two points to work ISS passes. The first stop was north of Flagstaff,\nstill in grid DM45, around 0115 UTC. No QSOs were logged, although I saw\nseveral stations on my TH-D72A's display. After that pass, I kept going north\non US-89 onto the Navajo Nation reservation. As the last glimmer of sunlight\nwas about to disappear from the western sky, I made another stop at the\nUS-89/US-89A junction near Page just before 0300 UTC. This was at grid\nDM46ep, with a nice view to the west for this ISS pass. I exchanged APRS\nmessages with KK6RKY in northern California, saw a few other stations, then\nwent back onto US-89 to finish my drive to Page.\n\nOnce in Page, I stopped in a Wal-Mart parking lot along US-89 to work an\nAO-73 pass just before 0400 UTC. This was in grid DM46gv, a few miles/km\nsouth of Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam, and the Arizona/Utah state line.\nSince it was getting late, and I needed to leave Page early the next morning,\nI only worked one pass. Six in the log, and that ended my Saturday.\n\nAs the sun was rising Sunday (7 June) morning, I left Page to reach the\nDM47xb/DM57ab grid boundary in southern Utah. This was a 130-mile/210km\ndrive, and even with two stops for caffeine on the way I made it to the\nspot with about 30 minutes to spare. I had operated from this spot in\n2009, on a county road southeast of US-163 in San Juan County. This area\nis also on the Navajo Nation reservation, and north of Monument Valley.\nAfter taking the obligatory photos of my station and GPS receiver, I was\nready to work an SO-50 pass followed by an AO-73 pass between 1510 and\n1550 UTC.\n\nOther than making another trip to this part of the country, I had heard from\nDrew KO4MA that DM47 and DM57 were two of the three grids in this part of the\nUS he did not have confirmed via satellite. Others had also mentioned they\neither needed one of these grids, or both of them as well. The SO-50 pass was\ngreat for working stations from coast to coast. A total of 16 stations,\nincluding KO4MA, were logged. The AO-73 pass around 1545 UTC was a very low\npass out there, with a maximum elevation of 4 degrees to the east. Despite\nthat, I logged QSOs with AC0RA and K4FEG.\n\nBefore the western SO-50 and AO-73 passes after 1700 UTC, I drove back to\nUS-163 and stopped at a spot with a great view to the south and Monument\nValley. I took lots of pictures out here, and some of those were sent out via\nTwitter for those who were watching me that morning. After spending most of\nthe 1600 UTC hour sightseeing, I drove back to the DM47/DM57 boundary for the\nlast two passes I'd work out there. Six stations logged on SO-50, followed by\n3 on AO-73, to wrap up the DM47/DM57 part of this road trip.\n\nAnother grid boundary I looked to work from on this trip was the DM56/DM57\nboundary, a place I worked from in 2008. This is along the US-191 highway,\njust north of the Arizona/Utah state line. It was about 75 miles/120km from\nthe DM47/DM57 boundary just off US-163 to the DM56ex/DM57ea boundary on\nUS-191. With a lunch stop along the way, I made it to the spot with about\n20 minutes to spare. I planned to work two AO-7 passes and one FO-29 pass,\nalong with the obligatory grid-boundary photography, before making the drive\nhome (almost 6 hours!).\n\nThe first AO-7 pass around 1930 UTC was not too high, but high enough to be\nable to hear myself for almost the entire pass. I logged only one QSO, with\nJohn K8YSE, near my LOS. Then an hour or so of sightseeing up US-191 and\nback, before the better AO-7 and FO-29 passes starting around 2125 UTC. The\ntwo later passes were productive. I logged 7 QSOs on the AO-7 pass, and 10\nQSOs on the FO-29 pass after that. When I was up here in 2008 and 2009, I\nonly worked FM passes. With SO-50 only passing by in the mornings, working\nthe SSB birds was mandatory on this trip up here.\n\nWhen I wasn't trying to work the ISS passes, I left my TH-D72A squawking my\nlocation as WD9EWK-9 on this trip. I did not use APRS when I was up there in\n2008 or 2009, and I hoped that mountaintop digipeaters would hear me. A few\nin Utah and Colorado did, and I was able to see myself later on aprs.fi. Some\nareas were not covered, in particular the two grid boundaries I stopped at in\nsouthern Utah, but the highways mostly had good coverage. I could use an app\non my mobile phone, but prefer to use APRS with RF. The mobile phone network\non the Navajo Nation was dramatically improved since 2009. I had high-speed\ndata access while I was out there, which let me send photos via Twitter and\nsee how well my APRS signals were making it to the Internet.\n\nAfter the trip, I uploaded my log to Logbook of the World. Over half of my 89\nQSOs from this trip have been confirmed via LOTW. This is nice to see! I am\nalso planning to print some QSL cards this weekend, to answer some QSL\nrequests that have landed at my PO box. Again, it's not necessary to send me\nyour QSL card or an SASE when you work me on my road trips. An e-mail with\nthe QSO details is sufficient. If you're in the log, I will put a card in the\nmail to you. If you work me when I'm at home, or near the Phoenix area (in\ngeneral, when I'm in grids DM33 and/or DM43), then I would appreciate\nreceiving your QSL card.\n\nI drove 1145 miles/1843km in just over 50 hours on this trip, and operated\nfrom 8 different grid locators in Arizona and Utah (DM44-47, DM54-57) -\nincluding 3 grid boundaries (DM47/DM57, DM54/DM55, DM56/DM57). Other than my\nlong drive from the ARRL Centennial Convention in Hartford last year up to\nnorthern Maine, it has been a while since I have done a trip like this. It is\nfun to mix in satellite operating on trips, and I hope to do more of this in\nthe remainder of 2015.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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