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    "sender_name": "[email protected]",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: First week as a satellite newbie",
    "date": "2008-11-18T22:44:06Z",
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    "content": "Congrats Bryan, be aware this stuff is very habit forming <grin>.\n73 Bob W7LRD\n\n--\n\"if this were easy, everyone would be doing it\"\n\n-------------- Original message -------------- \nFrom: Bryan Green <[email protected]> \n\n> Greetings, all: \n> \n> Bryan KL7CN/W6 here in CM98fn. \n> \n> A week ago, the used IC-W32A and Arrow 146/437-10WBP I purchased from \n> N3PKC via QRZ.com arrived. Hurray! \n> \n> The very first night I stood in the back yard and waved the antenna \n> above my head in one hand and held the IC-W32A in the other. I heard \n> K6LCS on SO-50, but couldn't quite manage to get things aligned to get \n> them to work. \n> \n> The next night I brought the gear to our local Sacramento Java Users \n> Group meeting. It might seem like a funny association, but there have \n> been a couple members of the group who very recently got their radio \n> licenses and I wanted to share the satellite experience with them. \n> \n> So, later that night, Marnie KI6SXU and I stood on a darkened street \n> corner between buildings in a business park in Rancho Cordova, and \n> scanned the sky for SO-50 with the Arrow. Late-leaving workers and \n> security guards made double-takes at us as they drove by, but then we \n> heard him! Chris, KG7EZ in DN32! I stuttered through calling him back, \n> and we made contact! Chris was very gracious and encouraging as we \n> elatedly told him that he was our very first satellite contact! \n> \n> After the thrill of first contact was done, we packed up the gear and \n> went inside to look up the call sign and grid square -- sure enough, \n> there he was! We spent the next hour looking at Google Maps, \n> AMSAT.org, and QRZ.com. We completely skipped the rest of the meeting! \n> Marnie, who's had her license all of two months, concluded that this \n> was actually fun and that she could imagine herself chasing satellites \n> with her retired grandfather at his middle-of-nowhere cabin in Arizona. \n> \n> Since then, I've made 10 more contacts on both AO-51 and SO-50. It \n> took a while to discover the mode schedule for AO-51; it sure started \n> working better after the 17th when mode VU was turned on. I added an \n> old tripod to the mix after watching K7AGE's excellent video tutorials \n> which helps quite a bit. I've heard the ISS on 145.825 Packet but \n> haven't heard anything else from them. \n> \n> This is fun. It's inspiring! I keep imagining the science curriculum \n> that could be written around this! I want to show it to my high-school \n> age cousins! \n> \n> Of course, I aspire to a lovely ground station with a wonderful \n> computer-controlled high-power VHF/UHF transceiver and a fabulous \n> antenna array mounted on rotors on a tower. But this manual operation \n> makes it fun! I walk around outside on the sidewalk, moving the tripod \n> so it has the best view of the pass. I make a complete fool of myself \n> as I juggle the HT, the notebook with coordinates, the flashlight, and \n> my cellphone to check the time. (Note to self: petition Icom to put a \n> clock chip in their HTs -- obvious?) What a hoot! \n> \n> Thanks for listening; I'll hear you on the birds -- I'll be the fellow \n> that sounds like a noob. \n> \n> -- bag \n> _______________________________________________ \n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. \n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! \n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb \n",
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