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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  Scottsdale AZ hamfest on 13 March - report",
    "date": "2010-03-17T00:58:22Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nLast Saturday's Scottsdale (Arizona) Amateur Radio Club hamfest was\na very successful event.  After 2 decades, this hamfest moved to a \nnew location at a casino on the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Indian\nreservation east of Scottsdale.  While the hamfest was taking place,\na local FM radio station was holding its annual \"yard sale\" swap meet\nin another part of the parking lot.  These two events were advertised\non TV, radio, and in print in the weeks leading up to last Saturday. \nThousands of people showed up for both events, including a nice crowd\nof hams who found their way to the new location.  As part of the \nhamfest, my AMSAT table was busy throughout the morning and into the\nearly afternoon. \n\nOfficially, the hamfest started at 7am (1400 UTC).  I arrived two \nhours early, and I'm glad I did.  By the time the hamfest officially\nstarted, I would not have had the chance to get a good space to set\nup.  They filled up by the starting time - something that never \nhappened at the old location.  By getting set up early, I was able \nto start working passes from just before 1300 UTC throughout the \nmorning, and I did just that.  \n\nFor the AO-51 pass that started around 1252 UTC, I initially went\non the main 145.920/435.300 MHz repeater.  Even though K4T was on\nthe 145.880/435.150 MHz repeater with lots of stations calling, I\nwanted to start out and make some QSOs for the small crowd that \nwas already roaming around the hamfest.  At this hour, just before\n6am local time, there was at least 30 minutes to go before daylight\nstarted appearing in the eastern sky.  I was able to work 9 stations\nbefore 1300 UTC, when I switched over to the 145.880/435.150 MHz\nrepeater.  I wanted to see if I could get K4T from the hamfest, and\nMark N8MH at K4T was aware I would be trying to work the DXpedition\nfrom the hamfest.  I was unsuccessful on AO-51, but on an AO-7 pass\nthat was starting just after 1300 UTC I was able to work K4T.  So\nfar, so good. \n\nFO-29 made its first appearance for the hamfest about 30 minutes \nlater.  Another pass to the east, and I got on there to work whoever\nwas on there.  I heard Doug KD8CAO getting set up on there, we \nchatted for a moment, and then K4T called on our frequency.  We \neach worked K4T right there, and then I moved off to see who else I\ncould work on that pass.  I was able to get two more contacts during\nthat pass.  \n\nAfter an hour, AO-51 made an appearance to the west.  I was able to\nmake 2 QSOs on the 145.920/435.300 MHz repeater with the only two \nstations I could hear on there, so that was not a bad showing.  About\n20 minutes after that AO-51 pass, AO-7 came by with a very high pass\nslightly to my west.  The AO-7 footprint is large enough that most\nof the continental USA is within reach.  I did not hear K4T on this\npass, but I did not try to find them on this AO-7 pass after working\nthem on the early AO-7 pass.  I was able to work 6 stations spread \nout all over the USA, with a nice crowd listening and watching closely.\nSSB satellite demonstrations continue to draw in the crowds, and \nespecially when I use my all-mode satellite station (two FT-817NDs,\nElk 2m/70cm log periodic, no computer control).  \n\nOnce AO-7 went away, I had most of the 1500-1600 UTC hour to chat\nwith people walking by the table.  I wanted to try SO-50 just before\n1600 UTC, and then VO-52 shortly after SO-50 went by.  SO-50 had a \nnice and disciplined crowd, waiting for K4T to be in the footprint \nlater in the pass.  :-)  I was able to work 5 stations, and K4T was\nthe last of those.  After working K4T, I changed over to the all-\nmode FT-817NDs to get on the VO-52 pass.  I only made 2 QSOs on this \npass - one with K4T, the fourth (and last) K4T QSO I would make at\nthe hamfest, and another with Bernardo XE2HWB.  Bernardo is very \nactive on VHF/UHF and microwave contests from up and down Baja \nCalifornia, has been active on the FM satellites in the past couple\nof years (including working from many of the grids he visits for \nthose VHF/UHF and microwave contests), and is now trying to get on \nthe SSB satellites from his home near the southern tip of Baja \nCalifornia (DL44).  \n\nI had almost 90 minutes before the next pass I could work, the VO-52\npass to my west.  Another nice pass, and this time only one QSO with\nMark WA8SME for most of it.  One ham asked if I knew the details of\nMark's satellite station.  I didn't, so I asked Mark on the air.  He\ngave a clear description of his station, running the same power as I\nwas (5W) but with different antennas and a different radio than I had.\n\nWith people still milling around the hamfest into the early afternoon,\nI missed the only HO-68 pass I could have worked a bit after 1900 UTC.\nI didn't feel too bad about that, being on many other passes using 2\nFM satellites and 3 non-FM satellites from the hamfest.  \n\nStats... I worked a total of 8 passes on 5 satellites - 2 each on \nAO-7, AO-51, and VO-52; and one each on FO-29 and SO-50 - and a total\nof 30 contacts were made from the hamfest in grid DM43dn.  I used the \nstation I described previously on the SSB birds, and substituted an \nIC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio on AO-51 and SO-50.  All were powered \nby batteries, either the internal rechargeable packs in the FT-817NDs \nor a 12V/20Ah jumpstart battery for the IC-2820H.  \n\nThank-yous... Many thanks to Mark N8MH and the K4T team for 4 QSOs \non 4 different satellites during the hamfest.  I mentioned to Mark I \nwould be at this hamfest, and he wanted to work the hamfest.  Along \nwith a QSO I had with Mark on AO-7 Thursday evening, I can't complain \nabout their operation.  K4T was a serious DXpedition for us on the \nsatellites, two complete stations and experienced operators for us to \nwork.  Also thanks to everyone who made QSOs with WD9EWK at the hamfest.\nHaving stations work me and mentioning where they were located (the\ngrid locator, as well as their city and state) always makes a good \nimpression on the audience for the demonstrations.  As always, thanks \nto the Scottsdale Amateur Radio Club for allowing AMSAT a space to be \nat this hamfest.  \n\nQSLs... please e-mail me with the QSO details if you want a QSL \ncard from WD9EWK at this hamfest.  If you are in the log, I will \nsend a card.  I'm working on a lot of cards, including those from my\ntrip last month to the Yuma hamfest and to Mexico, and all of these\nshould be in the mail before the next hamfest I attend (in Tucson AZ,\non Saturday, 27 March).\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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