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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Thunderbird Hamfest (Phoenix AZ) report, from yesterday",
    "date": "2012-01-08T19:36:14Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nYsterday's Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club hamfest in Phoenix AZ\nwas a great event.  A new outdoor location (it had been indoors for\nthe past few years), along with great weather, brought out a good\ncrowd for the morning.  I was out there with an AMSAT table, and \ngave demonstrations using two SO-50 passes and a VO-52 pass.  There\nwere good crowds for the demonstrations, as usual.  \n\nAround 1415 UTC, I had overlapping passes on SO-50 and VO-52.  Since \nthe VO-52 pass had a maximum elevation of only 7 degrees, I opted to\nwork the SO-50 pass with maximum elevation of 21 degrees.  This was\na good choice, as it allowed 8 stations from across the central and \neastern USA along with Canada and Cuba to say \"hello\" to the hamfest\ncrowd at that hour.  \n\nJust before 1600 UTC, I had passes on VO-52 and SO-50 that did not\noverlap as much.  This allowed me to work VO-52 at 1550-1603 UTC,\nthen switch over to SO-50 for the remainder of that pass.  For these\ntwo passes, I used an FT-817ND as my transmit radio and a Kenwood \nTH-F6A for the receiver.  I was able to work 4 stations on the VO-52\npass, and 3 of those 4 stations moved over to SO-50 where I was able\nto work them again.  \n\nWhen working SSB via satellite, I try to show that it can be done \nwith equipment that is not terribly expensive.  Both the FT-817 and \nTH-F6A have been manufactured for over a decade, and are plentiful \non the resale market.  The FT-817 and FT-817ND can be computer \ncontrolled, where the TH-F6A can't.  In the field, this combination\nis one option to work more than just the FM satellites.  When I \nswitched from VO-52 to SO-50, I changed the frequencies on the two\nradios, and swapped the coax connected to the 2m and 70cm ports on \nmy diplexer, so I was not transmitting into the wrong port on the\ndiplexer.  \n\nI was recorded working part of the 1603 UTC SO-50 pass yesterday.\nThanks to Chris N7ICE, that video is on YouTube at:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CaLvpAcJQ\n\nAMSAT did very well at the hamfest as well.  Lots of the WA4SXM\nGetting Started with Amateur Satellites books flew off the table, \nalong with one new member.  Thanks to the Thunderbird Amateur Radio\nClub for providing AMSAT with a space at the hamfest, as they have\ndone for the past several years.  And, as always, thanks to everyone\nwho called WD9EWK during those demonstrations.  :-) \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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