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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HRO4223U7P4VQHPYCHMGFATS6V5ANMZB/?format=api",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  Yes, again, my call was XE2/WD9EWK...",
    "date": "2009-02-23T08:11:30Z",
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    "content": "\nHi!\n\nI had another good day in Mexicali today, before returning home\nto Phoenix tomorrow.  I didn't get up early, and missed the \nmorning AO-51 passes.  I didn't take my FT-817NDs and related\ngear to work FO-29 and VO-52 with me, so I was on the two FM\nbirds and one pass of the ISS cross-band repeater from the late\nmorning through the evening.  A good day, adding 44 QSOs on \n6 different passes (1 ISS, 2 SO-50, 3 AO-51) before returning\nto California for the night.  I was accompanied by Alex \nXE2BSS/N2IX - a good friend, and for today the driver as we \nwent around Mexicali.  \n\nI started with the ISS pass around 1050 local time (1850 UTC).\nUnfortunately, I didn't get set up in time, so I missed the \nfirst half of the pass.  I was able to work 4 stations in a \ncouple of minutes on the last half, so it wasn't a complete \nbust.  After lunch and some shopping, I went over to the state \nuniversity (\"UABC\", Autonomous University of Baja California -\nwhere Alex worked for many years when I first met him) campus \nand parked near a big parking lot for the first of the two \nSO-50 passes around 2237 UTC.  Nine QSOs in a span of 7 minutes.  \nI don't know if it's the K5D guys being on FM satellites or maybe \nsome are looking for me to pop up on the birds while on this trip,\nbut it has been nice to see more activity on SO-50 passes over the \npast few days.  \n\nAfter that pass, and a stop at Starbucks near the UABC campus\n(yes, they do exist in Mexico - Mexicali has 3 so far), it was off \nto the \"Ciudad Deportiva\" sports complex where I worked a couple\nof passes on Thursday afternoon.  This is where I worked the \nremaining passes - one on SO-50, plus 3 AO-51 passes.  I had \nplanned to only work two AO-51 passes, but there was a third \npass at 2350-0000 UTC I decided to try.  With maximum elevation \nof only 6 degrees for this pass from Mexicali, I figured I might\nget a couple of minutes where I could even hear the satellite.  \nSurprise!  I could hear it for about 7 of the 10 minutes, and \nmade 7 QSOs in the 2357-2359 UTC window.  A few minutes later, \nSO-50 went by - 7 more QSOs in the log.  I've been using an Elk\nAntennas dual-band log periodic as my satellite antenna over\nthe past few weeks, and it has worked very well.  Especially \non lower passes, or at the start or end of a pass when the satellite\nis very close to the horizon - times I would have difficulty \nhearing the satellite with my Arrow Antennas dual-band Yagi, if\nI could even hear anything at all unless the satellite was up\nhigher.  \n\nDuring this time, I had been going around Mexicali with Alex\nXE2BSS/N2IX.  We were joined by David XE2DAK in the mid-\nafternoon, and we all decided to stay at the sports complex \nto chat while waiting for the best pass of the evening on \nAO-51 - up to over 65 degrees elevation and to the east around\n0127 UTC.  This was fun to work.  An orderly pass, and 15 QSOs \nwent in the log.  By now the sun was setting, David had to go \nhome, but Alex and I decided to stick around to try the last \nAO-51 pass we had for the evening - a 9-degree pass at 0308-0319 \nUTC.  \n\nFor this pass, Alex and I went up to the top row of bleachers \noverlooking a soccer field.  Although the height of the bleachers\nhelped with overcoming some trees to the west of the parking lot\nat the sports complex, it brought me in clearer view of one of\nMexicali's TV transmitter towers (the same transmitters that were \ncausing havoc on SO-50 passes Thursday).  I was only able to make \n2 QSOs near the end of the pass, when I was pointing away from the \nTV transmitter.  I even tried the 145.880/435.150 repeater to see if\nthat made any difference with the local QRM.  That didn't help \nmuch.  At least I was able to log some QSOs on that pass, instead\nof noting an unsuccessful attempt to work the satellite around that \ntime.\n\nWith that late AO-51 pass, that wrapped up my XE2/WD9EWK radio \noperating for this weekend.  Between the hamfest, visits to Mexicali\non two days (Thursday and today) plus Wednesday evening after I \narrrived, and the after-hamfest quickie road trip to the DM22/DM32 \ngrid boundary on Friday evening, it has been fun.  I'll post more\ninformation, and probably a link to a web page with more photos \nbesides those already referenced in earlier messages, once I return\nto Phoenix tomorrow.  Sorry if I was not able to work you while I\nwas out here in DM22-land, and especially if I wasn't able to get\nyou in the log while across the border.  Provided the security \nsituation where I might go in Mexico is good, there will be more\nopportunities in the near future to hear me on the birds as \nXE2/WD9EWK.  I'm also hoping for more sunspot activity, so I can\nhave a good reason to try HF while on trips like this (either with \nmy FT-817NDs, or with an IC-703 - but not mobile HF).  \n\nThanks again to Alex XE2BSS/N2IX for hanging around with me all\nday today while I played radio from Mexicali.  It was also nice\nto see David XE2DAK, who is the secretary of the local Red Digital \ndel Noroeste radio club I visited on Thursday evening.  And thanks\nto all the stations that either worked me today and over the past \nfew days, along with those who tried but were unsuccessful.  Even\nwhen it was tough to get through on some passes, it has been fun \nto get on from out this area.  I'm sure I will find my way back\nhere in the not-too-distant future...\n\nGood night, and 73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK (also XE2/WD9EWK) - Calexico, California\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\nP.S.: Yes, I am aware that these e-mails I've sent out during my\ntrip might be a good start for an AMSAT Journal article.  I have \na ton of photos, audio recordings from the passes I worked, and \neven some video clips from the past few days.  \n\n",
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