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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/J5TUG76SX2V4H4HRC3LUJGXNKYNOIWNW/?format=api",
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    "sender_name": "Michael Hatzakis",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: The Ham Radio Bucket List",
    "date": "2013-04-15T02:37:13Z",
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    "content": "What a great story, thanks so much for sharing this.  What an awesome\nconcept, a \"ham radio bucket list\"...  I need to write one...\n\nOh yeah, I take issue with just one comment, \" I wasted 35+ years on HF\", HF\nis also awesome, and fueled my excitement in Ham radio.... but in a\ndifferent way, so hope you really didn't mean that one...\n\nMichael K3MH\n\n\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On\nBehalf Of Les Rayburn\nSent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 11:12 PM\nTo: [email protected]\nSubject: [amsat-bb] The Ham Radio Bucket List\n\nI've been a ham well over 40 years, since my childhood. Back then, I could\nbarely afford the Heathkit transmitter, Halicrafters receiver, knife switch,\nand longwire antenna that made up my shack.\n\nMy elmer used to let me borrow his copy of QST and I'd dream about all the\ngreat adventures that I'd have \"someday\" in ham radio. Being a child of the\nSpace Age, key among them were anything related to the New Frontier.\n\nEME (Moonbounce), Meteor Scatter, and satellites all seemed like the stuff\nof science fiction---and I longed to experience them all. But they were\nexotic, and required equipment far beyond my reach. I resolved to accomplish\nthem all someday and added them to a sort of ham radio \"bucket list\" that I\nhoped to accomplish before my ham career was over.\n\nFive years ago, shortly after getting started in weak signal VHF work, I\nchecked off the first item on that list. Working meteor scatter contacts\nwith the aid of WSJT software, and during a Perseid shower, even using SSB.\nWhat a thrill to make contacts off the ionized gasses of those tiny rocks.\nThanks Joe Taylor!\n\nTonight, I managed to check off a second. I worked Art, K4YYL on FO-29, a\nJapanese amateur satellite!\n\nMy journey to the \"birds\" started about a month ago when I joined AMSAT,\ndetermined that 2013 was going to be \"the year\" when I finally got active on\nsatellites. I purchased a copy of SATPC32 software, because I knew that it\ncould control my IC-910H--hopefully making it easier to get active.\n\nAfter listening to a few passes on both the FM and the SSB/CW birds, I\ndecided to try my luck on the less-crowded FO-29. A brief CQ was quickly\nanswered by Art. I adjusted the tuning knob just a bit to correct for the\nDoppler effect, and voila! there he was clear as a bell.\n\nWe had a brief QSO of perhaps ten minutes or so, and then we signed. I was\nquickly called by K4FEG near Memphis in EM55---who just wanted to welcome me\nto the birds!\n\nMan, what a thrill! And it wasn't tough at all.\n\nI'm using a 7 element 432 antenna tilted up to 15 degrees (fixed) and a\n6 element 2 Meter beam tilted up to about 10 degrees (fixed) both inside my\ncrowded attic. The SSB Electronics pre-amp helps a ton on 432, and the 1/2\"\nhardline makes sure that I don't lose too much signal. So far, I've been\nable to copy the birds down to about 2 degrees above the horizon using this\nsetup.\n\nNow to attempt that EME contact! I've got a 12 element Yagi just waiting to\ndeploy in the driveway once the weather warms a bit. Hoping to use WSJT to\nwork one of the monster stations on EME. All this in a deed-restricted HOA\nneighborhood.\n\nI wasted 35+ years on HF----man, all the fun really is in the World Above 50\nMHz! Thanks for helping to make a boys dreams come true at age 51!\n\n\n\n-- \n73,\n\nLes Rayburn, N1LF\n121 Mayfair Park\nMaylene, AL 35114\nEM63nf\n\n6M VUCC #1712\nAMSAT #38965\nGrid Bandits #222\nSoutheastern VHF Society\nCentral States VHF Society Life Member\nSix Club #2484\n\nActive on 6 Meters thru 1296, 10GHz & Light\n\n_______________________________________________\nSent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n",
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