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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] How to avoid Black Friday, working satellites... (long)",
    "date": "2016-11-27T19:18:17Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nOn Friday (25 November), I didn't want to stay home. I wasn't going to\nvisit stores or shopping malls, where I'd have to deal with crowds on\n\"Black Friday\". With decent weather throughout Arizona, and especially\nno snow on the highways in northern Arizona, I made a quick road trip\nto operate from some rarely-heard grids. I also wanted to operate from\na national monument for another National Parks on the Air activation.\nEven with the cool weather in northern Arizona, it was a fun day to\nwork satellites and do some sightseeing before the snow arrives.\n\nI had originally planned to visit the Walnut Canyon National Monument,\neast of Flagstaff along the I-40 freeway. I had been to this site in\nJune, trying to make a NPOTA activation then. I came up short of the\nminimum number of stations I needed to work for an official activation\n(10), but wanted to rectify that before the end of the year. Walnut\nCanyon National Monument is in grid DM45, a rarely-heard grid on the\nsatellites, so a trip up there would satisfy operators on two fronts.\nThen Steve N9IP mentioned on Twitter earlier in the week that he needed\ngrid DM44. I started looking at pass predictions, trying to see how I\ncould work a stop in grid DM44 along with working at least a few passes\nfrom Walnut Canyon. Seeing that SO-50 would pass by in the morning, and\nnot be available later in the day at Walnut Canyon, I planned an early\nstop in DM44 to make this happen.\n\nAfter waking up to a 5am (1200 UTC) alarm clock, I was on the road by\n1245 UTC. The first SO-50 pass was due to pass by around 1418 UTC, and\nI could be in DM44 at a point about halfway up the I-17 freeway between\nPhoenix and Flagstaff. With some hills to the east in this area, the\nbest spot to work from DM44 was actually on the DM34/DM44 grid boundary,\non a wide shoulder next to Cherry Road (AZ-169), just west of I-17. I\nhad about 20 minutes to find the spot I wanted to use, document my\nlocation with photos, and set up for the SO-50 pass. I did all of that,\ntweeted photos showing my location, and I was ready for SO-50. I also\nhad to change from a light windbreaker to a heavier jacket, as the\ntemperature was around 43F/6C at the start of the pass with a stiff\nbreeze.\n\nThe 1418 UTC SO-50 pass was a 16-degree pass to the northeast. Once I\nheard the downlink, I started working stations across the USA, along\nwith Canada and Mexico. I have operated from both DM34 and DM44 earlier\nin the year, but there is almost always someone looking for either of\nthese grids - or both of them. N9IP was the fourth of the 13 stations\nI worked during this pass. After LOS, I quickly put the radio and\nantenna back in my car, so I could finish my drive up to Walnut Canyon.\n\nWhen I arrived at Walnut Canyon, I went to the same spot I used in June.\nI parked just off the main road between the I-40 freeway and the visitor\ncenter on the edge of the canyon. The national monument includes a strip\nof land that connects the visitor center to the freeway, and the spot I\nused has a Forest Service road that cuts through the national monument\nabout a mile north of the visitor center. It is also at 6600'/2011m, and\na bit cooler than it was at the DM34/DM44 grid boundary that was just over\n4400'/1341m elevation. The temperature was down to 26F/-3C, something I\nrarely see in the Phoenix area. The heavy jacket I put on for the earlier\nstop was definitely necessary here.\n\nThe first pass I worked from Walnut Canyon was a western SO-50 pass just\nbefore 1600 UTC. This was a surprisingly busy pass, with 13 stations\nworked - an official NPOTA activation, just with one pass! I didn't stop\nwith this pass. A few minutes after SO-50 went away, FO-29 came up a few\ndegrees to my east. The satellite went up to a maximum elevation of 8.6\ndegrees. Even with the low elevation, and trees around my location, I\nlogged 3 QSOs.\n\nDuring the week leading up to this trip to Walnut Canyon, the 145.825 MHz\npacket digipeater on NO-84 had been turned on. It was still on while I\nwas at Walnut Canyon, and made use of it. The first of two NO-84 passes\nwas a 28-degree pass. NO-84's digipeater has a weaker downlink than what\nwe used to hear from the ISS on the same frequency, so it is more of a\nchallenge to make QSOs. Fernando NP4JV and I made what was my only QSO\non this pass, near my LOS.\n\nAbout an hour later, there was another pair of passes - FO-29, followed\nby NO-84. It was also starting to warm up - the temperature went above\nfreezing, up to 37F/3C. This time, just before 1800 UTC, FO-29 was\npassing very high over northern Arizona. I was able to work 7 stations\nfrom coast to coast in the continental USA, and one Canadian station.\nThe NO-84 pass around 1820 UTC had a little more activity. I was able\nto work both KG6FIY and KK6OTJ in southern California via APRS messages.\nThanks Endaf and Mark for those QSOs! For these trips, working the\norbiting packet digipeaters is just another satellite or two, and it\nwas fun to have a total of 3 QSOs via NO-84 from Walnut Canyon.\n\nBy midday (1900 UTC), the outside temperature had made it up to a\ncomfortable 53F/12C. The heavy jacket went in the car, and I put my\nwindbreaker on instead. I had two more passes I planned to work,\none more FO-29 pass at 1935 UTC followed by AO-85 just after 2000\nUTC, before heading to Flagstaff for lunch and the drive home.\n\nThe 1935 UTC FO-29 pass favored the west coast, and I worked just 2\nstations. The AO-85 pass just after 2000 UTC passed across the\ncontinental USA, making for a busier pass. I worked 10 stations from\ncoast to coast, including AI6GS who was also at an NPOTA site in\nsouthern California (Joshua Tree National Park). This pass would\nhave made an NPOTA activation by itself, and it has been fun to make\npark-to-park QSOs during this year.\n\nAfter AO-85 went away, I packed up for the drive to Flagstaff for\nlunch, and then the drive home. It was a nice day to be in northern\nArizona, as there should be snow falling up there today or tomorrow -\nand I don't like driving in northern Arizona snow. Road conditions\nwere good all day, even for the drive up in the morning with below\nfreezing temperatures. The only snow I saw was on the tops of the\nSan Francisco Peaks that overlook Flagstaff, and that's OK with me.\n:-)\n\nI made a total of 38 QSOs from Walnut Canyon National Monument: 13\nQSOs on the SO-50 pass, 12 QSOs across 3 FO-29 passes, 3 QSOs on 2\nNO-84 passes, and 10 QSOs on the AO-85 pass to wrap up this NPOTA\nactivation. Along with the 13 QSOs made from the DM34/DM44 line\nearlier, a good day to be on the satellites.\n\nAll of the QSOs I made from the DM34/DM44 grid boundary, as well as\nthose made at Walnut Canyon, are in Logbook of the World. If anyone\nwho worked me wants a QSL card, please e-mail me directly with the\nQSO details. If you're in my log, I'll send you a card. No card or\nSASE required. Working from rarely-heard grids is always fun, and\nNPOTA has added to that in 2016. I still hope to make it to one or\ntwo other NPOTA sites in the last few weeks of the year.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n\nGo AMSAT!\n",
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