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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Saturday at the Tucson Hamfest & driving around\tArizona...",
    "date": "2015-11-09T03:42:46Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nYesterday was a busy, and fun, day. Between the Tucson Hamfest in the\nmorning and over 300 miles of driving after the hamfest to operate from\n3 other locations in 2 southern Arizona grids, it made for a fun day.\nA good hamfest for AMSAT in the morning, and a long loop through southern\nArizona including a stop at one of the rarest grids in the continental\nUSA added to the fun.\n\nI drove down to the hamfest, hosted at a school about 25 miles northwest\nof downtown Tucson in the suburb of Marana, early in the morning. I was\nsetting up around 5am (1200 UTC), so I could be ready for the early-\nmorning crowds and also work the early SO-50 and LilacSat-2 passes from\nthe hamfest site. I was able to do that, and also work a couple of AO-73\npasses later in the morning. During the morning, my AMSAT table was\nvisited by a group of students from the University of Arizona. They were\ninterested in learning about AMSAT's Fox project, as they are about to\nstart their own CubeSat project. Maybe we'll hear about their project in\nthe near future. Thanks to the Oro Valley Amateur Radio Club, the club that\nhosted the hamfest, for providing AMSAT a space at the hamfest - a nice\nspace with a good view of the eastern sky, for the demonstrations.\n\nAfter the hamfest and a quick stop for lunch, I decided to make a long\ndrive from the Tucson area out to the rarely-heard grid DM31. Since I\ndidn't leave the hamfest until almost 12 noon (1900 UTC), I knew I would\nmiss some really good passes that covered the east coast, but I still\nwanted to make a run out that way. I have not been to DM31 in almost 5\nyears, and it turned out to be a perfect day to drive around southern\nArizona and be outside to work satellites.\n\nOn my way to DM31, I stopped along a highway in grid DM32re to work SO-50\nand FO-29 passes just after 2100 UTC. The SO-50 pass was a shallow pass\nfavoring the east coast, and FO-29 basically went right over my head. I\nstopped along a highway where I was not right next to the highway, and\nworked these two passes. This location was on the western edge of the\nTohono O'Odham Nation reservation, which covers a large chunk of southern\nArizona. These passes went well, and I wasted no time stowing my gear after\nthe FO-29 pass went away to make it to my next stop.\n\nI only had to drive about 45 minutes to reach my destination in DM31, the\nvisitor center at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. This spot is\nabout 5 miles north of the USA/Mexico border, but a few miles inside DM31.\nIn my two previous trips to this grid, I operated at the Lukeville border\ncrossing, very close to the USA/Mexico border fence. Seeing so many Border\nPatrol vehicles on the highways after leaving Tucson, and knowing the\nsituation just over the border in that area, I decided not to drive all the\nway to the border crossing. Operating from the national monument's visitor\ncenter was OK, even with the hills to the west that meant the most shallow\nwestern passes were not workable.\n\nAt DM31, I worked 4 passes - two SO-50 passes, and one pass each on FO-29\nand XW-2F. The first SO-50 pass, around 2245 UTC, was a high pass, but did\nnot stretch all the way to the east coast. I worked 13 station on this\npass. FO-29 came by about 15 minutes after the SO-50 pass, and this was a\nshallow pass with maximum elevation of 5 degrees. I heard K8YSE/7 on this\npass, but did not work anyone. The last SO-50 pass around 0030 UTC added\njust 2 more QSOs to the log. XW-2F, just after 0100 UTC, was probably the\nbest chance to work some stations further away from me to the east. I used\nmy SDRplay SDR receiver to hear the downlink, transmitting from one of my\nFT-817NDs. I worked 4 stations, and then packed up. It was just after\nsunset, and I did not want to stick around this area after dark - even at\nthe visitor center.\n\nBefore the last SO-50 pass I worked at 0030 UTC, I was visited by a US Park\nRanger - the law enforcement at national parks and monuments. We had a nice\n15-minute chat, and I was never asked to produce any ID or paperwork for\nmy radio gear. Normally, when I operate from this area or other locations\nnear the USA/Mexico border, I'm visited by Border Patrol agents, but not\nthis time. As I was about to leave this area, a Border Patrol helicopter\nflew very low over the visitor center heading away from the border area.\n\nThe drive from the Organ Pipe national monument to Gila Bend, a small town\nalong the I-8 freeway, is a 75-mile drive. On the way north, there are two\nBorder Patrol highway checkpoints, plus the road (Arizona 85) cuts through\nthe east end of an Air Force bombing range where stopping is not allowed\nexcept for emergencies. I made the drive in about an hour and a half, and\nthat let me work two AO-85 passes from a McDonald's parking lot near I-8\nin Gila Bend to wrap up the day's radio operating. Gila Bend is at the\nnorth edge of grid DM32, the grid I worked from earlier in the afternoon\nbefore I made it to DM31.\n\nThe first AO-85 pass I worked, just after 0300 UTC, was probably the\nbusiest AO-85 pass I have worked. I logged QSOs with 11 different stations,\nand heard a few others I did not work. I used my SDRplay SDR receiver and\nHDSDR software to hear the downlink, transmitting with my IC-2820H. I made\nan RF recording of the pass, so I could decode telemetry and upload it\nlater. After the 0300 UTC pass, I had dinner, and then worked the western\npass at 0445 UTC for my final pass of the day. Four stations showed up at\nthat hour. When I ran the RF recordings from these passes through FoxTelem\nthis morning, I uploaded a total of 97 data frames to the AMSAT server -\na little more than half of them came from the earlier of the two passes.\n\nWhen I made it home just before midnight (0700 UTC), I had driven 416 miles\nsince leaving home at 2.45am (0945 UTC). If I had only driven to the\nhamfest and back home, I would have had less than 200 miles on the car. The\nextra driving was nice, especially with the afternoon temperature staying\naround 80F. I logged 24 QSOs at the hamfest on 6 passes (2 each on AO-73,\nSO-50, and LilacSat-2), 15 QSOs when I stopped along that highway in grid\nDM32 on SO-50 and FO-29, 19 QSOs on 3 passes in DM31 (2 SO-50 passes, plus\nan XW-2F pass), and 15 QSOs on the two AO-85 passes in Gila Bend (DM32pw)\nin the evening. I enjoy going to hamfests representing AMSAT, and the post-\nhamfest road trip was a lot of fun.\n\nI know there are a few who had hoped I could have made it to DM31 for\nearlier passes yesterday. With the hamfest being the main reason I was in\nsouthern Arizona, the post-hamfest travel was a bonus. I made sure to\nstretch that into the evening, and that let me operate from a couple of\nother grids (DM31, DM32) besides the grid the hamfest was in (DM42). I will\ntry to make another run to DM31, when I can work more passes that reach\nboth coasts.\n\nAll of my QSOs from yesterday's passes have been uploaded to Logbook of the\nWorld. If you would like to receive a QSL card for QSOs with me, please\ne-mail me directly with the QSO details. If you're in the log, I will send\na card. I have also posted my RF recordings and other files related to the\nAO-85 and XW-2F passes I worked yesterday, available at:\n\nhttp://dropbox.wd9ewk.net/\n\nHit the refresh button, or press the F5 key, if the file/folder listing\ndoesn't appear immediately. Other photos from throughout the day were\nposted on my @WD9EWK Twitter account. If you don't use Twitter, you can\nstill see those photos and other tweets in a web browser:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/WD9EWK\n\nThanks for the QSOs, and 73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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