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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Monday evening & Tuesday, trip wrap-up...",
    "date": "2015-10-21T22:54:12Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI'm relaxing on my flight back to Arizona, after a week of all things AMSAT\nand satellite operating. The Symposium was great, and I mixed in a lot of\noperating from many different locations in 9 different grids (EM79, EN's:\n70-71, 82-83, 92-94) in 3 states (IN, MI, OH) and the province of Ontario.\nMy rental car had 1395 miles from my driving, when I returned it at the\nIndianapolis airport earlier this afternoon - including a 6-hour, 400-mile\ndrive to get back to that airport, which came after a similar drive from\nDayton to Port Huron Monday afternoon/evening. I had written about my\nearlier radio operating, so I'll focus on Monday evening after the end of\nthe Symposium and Tuesday in Ontario, along with a wrap-up for the trip.\n\nBefore crossing the border Tuesday morning, I worked two passes Monday\nevening from a parking lot near my motel in Port Huron, which was a new\ngrid locator for my rover log (EN83). A handful of QSOs on two passes,\none each on AO-73 and SO-50 - and a ton of noise when working the SO-50\npass. AO-73 worked well with the FT-817ND/SDRplay combination, once again.\nSince I was planning to be up early for the 2-hour drive from Port Huron to\nthe EN93/EN94 grid boundary, I did not stay out to work later passes.\n\nIn between these two passes, I had an interesting - and quick - meeting\nwith a pair of Port Huron police officers. As soon as I explained what I\nwas doing, they mentioned that I was not on the Wendy's property, that it\nwould close in a few minutes, and I was OK to be out there. They also said\nthe Wendy's manager made the call to the police, seeing me outside with my\ngear and \"waving an antenna around\".\n\nAfter a short night's sleep, I got up early Tuesday morning and prepared\nfor my day-trip across the border. My motel was 2 minutes away from the\ncrossing, at the Blue Water Bridge. After a 20-minute delay at the Canadian\nborder checkpoint in Sarnia, I made some quick stops before starting the 2-\nhour drive. Among other quick stops, I saw the Sarnia Chris Hadfield\nAirport, and took some pictures. I met Chris at a book signing event in\nPhoenix a few months ago, and knew Sarnia was his hometown. I saw some snow\non the ground as I drove north, left over from a storm that passed through\na couple of days earlier. The drive was uneventful, and I was able to line\nup on the grid boundary for the obligatory photos of my gear and GPS\nreceiver. After that, an SO-50 pass for a few QSOs.\n\nThere were a total of 3 FO-29 passes and 4 SO-50 passes during Tuesday\nafternoon. If I stayed later, I could have had a few more SO-50 passes,\nwhere I could have worked all polar bears, seeing how the passes looked on\nmy tracking app. With AO-7 in mode A, I wanted to work a bunch of passes in\nFM and SSB from there on SO-50 and FO-29. I think someone else was up in\nthis area not too long ago, but I still had lots of callers on most passes.\nA couple of passes saw only one other operator on, but at least I worked\nsomeone on each of the 7 passes I worked from the grid boundary. I worked a\ntotal of 42 QSOs from the EN93/EN94 grid boundary.\n\nWhen I was done at EN93/EN94, I thought about where else I could work from,\nbefore crossing back into the USA at Port Huron. Four grids come together\nat a point east of Sarnia, near the 402 freeway - EN82, EN83, EN92, EN93. I\ncovered EN93 earlier in the day, worked briefly from EN83 the night before,\nand looked at maps to see where I could go to operate. The four-grid\nintersection was off-limits, but I could easily park somewhere to be in any\ntwo of those four grids. I decided to go with the EN82/EN92 boundary, which\nwas close to an interchange for the 402 freeway, and the road had a large\ndirt shoulder where I could safely park and use my radios. I parked, found\nthe right spot for the photos of my radios and GPS receiver on the grid\nboundary, and worked two passes - one each, on XW-2E and XW-2F, with a gap\nof a few minutes between these passes. Eight QSOs on the XW-2E pass, and\n7 more on the XW-2F pass. Not too bad, for only mentioning this on Twitter\ndue to time constraints on making additional posts in places like this\nmailing list.\n\nI had originally pulled out my two FT-817NDs, seeing that it had been\nraining during much of the afternoon. The rain did not start up while I was\nat EN82/EN92, so I swapped out one FT-817ND for my SDRplay SDR receiver and\n8-inch tablet. I did not make one long RF recording, but stopped it when\nXW-2E went away, and started a new recording as XW-2F came up. Many of the\nsame stations I worked up at EN93/EN94 were calling me at EN82/EN92, and I\nlogged a total of 15 QSOs - 8 on XW-2E, 7 on XW-2F.\n\nAfter a dinner in Sarnia, I crossed the border, went back to my motel room,\nand had another short night's sleep before today's drive from Port Huron to\nIndianapolis for my flight home. Even with a stop at a post office in\nnorthern Indiana to ship books home, I made the drive in about 6 hours.\nEspecially with the Symposium Proceedings book, my suitcase would have gone\nover the 50-pound free allowance, and Priority Mail was cheaper than the\nexcess-weight fee I would have paid in Indianapolis. The books will be home\non Friday, so that is not a problem. This was the first time I had to ship\nanything home after an event like this. I had additional radio gear in my\nradio bag and computer backpack (more room with tablets instead of a laptop\nin the backpack), since I had planned on making the run up to EN93/EN94, so\nI didn't have room to carry the books with me.\n\nI heard a lot of noise when I worked SO-50 from Port Huron on Monday\nevening. I chalked that up to the power lines and all the lighting in the\narea. I heard the same noise on SO-50 at EN93/EN94 Tuesday, and there were\nonly the power lines. When I'm in Arizona, I have never heard so much noise\nfrom power lines. I was able to deal with it by using an HT as my downlink\nreceiver for the SO-50 passes, still transmitting with the IC-2820H. I was\nconcerned that the IC-2820H's receiver may have been going out on me, but\nit seems like it is working OK - other than being very sensitive to that\nnoise. I'll check it out further at home, to confirm it is still in good\nworking order.\n\nAll of my QSOs from the past week in 3 states (Indiana, Ohio, Michigan) and\nOntario, covering 8 grids - EM79; EN's 70, 71, 82, 83, 92, 93, 94 - are now\nin Logbook of the World. I operated from many different locations,\nincluding the Indiana/Michigan/Ohio border tripoint last Thursday (15\nOctober) and the Indiana/Ohio border west of Dayton on Friday (16 October)\nevening, along with the EN82/EN92 and EN93/EN94 grid boundaries in Ontario.\nThis also included AO-85 passes late last week, which was a nice bonus,\nalong with the uploads of data from the telemetry in the AO-85 downlink. If\nyou would like to receive a QSL card for any of your QSOs with WD9EWK or\nVA7EWK/3, please e-mail me with the QSO details. If you are in the log, I\nwill be happy to send a card - or cards - as confirmation.\n\nExcept for the XW-2E and XW-2F passes I worked from EN82/EN92 Tuesday\nevening, I have posted all of the RF recordings I made from various passes\nin my Dropbox space accessible at http://dropbox.wd9ewk.net/ (refresh your\nbrowser or press F5 if the folder/file listing doesn't pop up immediately).\nAll were made using the SDRplay receiver, my 8-inch HP tablet, and HDSDR.\nTelemetry uploads were done after the passes, using the RF recording and\nplaying that from HDSDR into the FoxTelem program. I hope to have the RF\nrecordings from the Tuesday evening XW-2E and XW-2F passes posted in a\ncouple of days. I'm not going to tempt fate and my Internet access by\ntrying to do a Dropbox upload on inflight WiFi. :-)\n\nThanks for all the QSOs! It was fun to work so many passes, from many\ndifferent locations. I also had the pleasure to meet some of the voices I\nregularly hear on the different birds in Dayton over last weekend - always\na good thing...\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n\n(at 38000 feet above New Mexico, on the way to Phoenix)\n",
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