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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/EMBO4WDD5XV6MUIKGYUKYQVQ25LNXYQ4/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "EMBO4WDD5XV6MUIKGYUKYQVQ25LNXYQ4", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/EMBO4WDD5XV6MUIKGYUKYQVQ25LNXYQ4/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "bag (a) mac.com", "mailman_id": "4060a44f8976432582122ef012353229", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/4060a44f8976432582122ef012353229/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Bryan Green", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Third week as a satellite newbie", "date": "2008-12-02T14:40:00Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Greetings, all:\n\nBryan KL7CN/W6 here in CM98fn.\n\nTwo weeks ago, I posted here my first week's experience as a satellite \nnewbie.\n\nAfter three weeks, it's still fun. I know this because it's 6:00 in \nthe morning in California, and I just came back inside after standing \nout on the sidewalk in the bitter 40-degree cold -- and yes, I can \nhear the chuckles from the Midwest but that's very cold for here.\n\nI was out there the foggy dark dregs of night talking into my now- \nbeloved IC-W32A VHF/UHF handheld radio and even more beloved tripod- \nmounted Arrow antenna. I met with WB9YIG, K8CXM, my co-conspirator \nWA4NVM, and WB9L for an early-morning club -- the FM satellite \nenthusiast's club! I scribbled down their callsigns and the callsigns \nof the others I heard into my little Moleskine notebook, all by the \nlight of my cell phone -- an ironic choice of illumination. I waved at \nthe couple of early-morning commuters who drove by with wide eyes and \ndropped jaws. They must think I am as crazy as the fellow down the \nstreet who shovels dirt around his grassless yard. What else could \nexplain a grown man pointing a TV-antenna-looking-thing at at the sky \nwhile listening intently into a pair of iPod headphones attached to \nit, and all while carefully taking notes and occasionally talking into \na microphone -- in the middle of the night?\n\nI suppose the craziness of it appeals to me most. It's the frontier! \nIt used to be unusual to have conversations with people from other \ncountries; now it's common -- the Internet changed that. And it used \nto be unusual to carry around a small radio for the purpose of \ncommunicating with your friends; now it's also common -- cell phones \nchanged that. And, as well, it used to be unusual to send short \ncomputer-based messages by wireless to your posse; now it's popular \nwith young people the world over -- texting changed that. But talking \nto your friends using low-earth-orbiting satellites tracked by hand -- \nwho does that? Crazy people, that's who: amateur radio operators!\n\n-- bag\n", "attachments": [] }