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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK at the Tucson hamfest and New Mexico yesterday",
    "date": "2009-10-19T01:03:19Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nYesterday was a busy - and enjoyable - day spent in southern Arizona\nand (briefly) southwestern New Mexico.  A hamfest, followed by a \ndrive toward the Arizona/New Mexico border, for a total of 549 miles\n(883km) including my drive down to Tucson on Friday evening.  \n\nThe hamfest was the Old Pueblo Radio Club's annual hamfest in Tucson.\nI attended this event last year, which was a very cold morning.  For\nyesterday, it was warm enough so I didn't need a jacket.  In fact, it\nwas getting rather warm by mid-morning.  The better weather meant a\nlarger crowd showed up - buyers and sellers.  I brought the AMSAT\n\"flag\" back to this hamfest, and set up next to the ARRL table.\nThere was a regular stream of traffic by the table, and good crowds\nfor the demonstrations (one AO-51 pass, two SO-50 passes, and two\nVO-52 passes - although I did not work stations on the first of the \ntwo VO-52 pass).  \n\nThe AO-51 pass started just before the official start of the \nhamfest at 7am (1400 UTC).  Despite the fact that this pass went\nby to my west, there were 12 QSOs made with stations across much\nof the USA along with stations in Canada and Mexico.  Not a bad\nstart.  There was a VO-52 pass at 1537 UTC I had hoped to work, \nbut I had problems hearing the downlink.  Normally, I have not\nhad problems with the 2m downlinks, even with an air force base\na couple of miles/km east of the hamfest.  I apologize to those\nwho were hoping to hear - and work - me on that pass.  \n\nSO-50 first came just after 1600 UTC, and there were a couple of \nJOTA stations from Texas on there.  I worked one of them, along \nwith 4 other US stations.  Then the second (western) VO-52 pass\nshowed up an hour later.  This time, I had no problems hearing \nthe downlink.  Glenn AA5PK in Texas and Bob W7LRD in Washington \nstate answered my CQ calls.  Thanks for the contacts - they \nhelped bring out a \"that's cool\" remark from a long-time ham \nwho was previously active on AO-10 and AO-13, seeing me work \nSSB via satellite with two FT-817s and a handheld antenna.  The\nfinal SO-50 pass came by a little after 1800 UTC, and 3 more\nstations were logged.  \n\nThenks to the Old Pueblo Radio Club for providing me the space for\nthe AMSAT table, and also to those stations who worked me (and, \non the first VO-52 pass, tried to work me).  Having the crowd hear\nwhere the other stations are located helps to show that our \nsatellites cover a large area - even if the footprints are not what\nwe might hope for.  \n\nAfter the hamfest, I decided to spend my afternoon and early evening\naround the Arizona/New Mexico border.  I've operated from several \nlocations in southeastern Arizona on trips earlier this year, so I\nwanted to do something a little different.  Instead of parking on a\ngrid boundary, this trip would be to the state line.  From Tucson,\nI drove about 135 miles/217km - a little less than 2 hours - on the \nI-10 freeway to reach the state line.  There is a freeway exit very \nclose to this spot, and from there I drove on a dirt track up to the \nstate line (grid DM52lf).  Along with the signs on the freeway showing\nthe state line, there was a concrete marker across the freeway on the\nstate line.  I lined up my truck so the radio gear in the back of it \nsat on the state line, and took lots of photos of that and the area - \nalong with the GPS readout.   Then I waited for the 2235 UTC AO-27\npass.  Once the AO-27 repeater switched on, I worked 5 stations on \nthat pass.  \n\nThis location was a good one for passes to the west, or high passes\nto the east.  For the AO-51 pass around 2318 UTC, which was a shallow\npass to the northeast, a hill blocked me in that direction.  I drove\n5 miles/8km east of the state line to reach the town of Road Forks in\nNew Mexico (grid DM52mf).  From here, I had good visibility to the \nnortheast down to the horizon, and I was ready for this pass.  The\nfirst few minutes were busy, when I worked 10 stations in a 3-minute\napan.  After that, several minutes passed with many signals or QRM\nclogged the uplink.  Just before the end of the pass, I was able to\nwork two more stations before the satellite went away from me.  Even\nwith the period where I logged no QSOs, that was still a good pass.\n\nI went back to the state line for the second AO-51 pass, at 0054 UTC.\nThis was a very high pass, approximately 65 degrees maximum elevation\nto the west, as the sun was setting behind mountains to the west.  \nStations were heard from southern Mexico to Alaska and western Canada,\nand across most of the USA.  Clint's JOTA station was on the air, \nand David XE3DX was also operating a JOTA station with a group of\nMexican Scouts (Drew - I will get you more information on the XE JOTA\nsatellite activity shortly).  WD9EWK logged 17 QSOs on this western\npass.  Whether it was the rarely-heard grid DM52 or the fact I was \nworking from a state line, it was an enjoyable pass.  \n\nWhen AO-51 went away for the last time, I quickly disassembled my \nantenna and packed up for the 240-mile/386km drive home.  Between \nthe hamfest and the post-hamfest activity at or near the Arizona/New \nMexico state line, I logged a total of 56 QSOs.  I will mail QSL cards \nto all of those who worked WD9EWK at the hamfest.  If you worked me \nafter the hamfest and want a card, please e-mail me with the QSO \ndetails.  I plan on mailing cards from Saturday's activity, along with \nthe cards from my east-coast trip last week in the coming week.  \n\nThanks to everyone for the QSOs, and especially the QSOs at the hamfest\nduring my demonstrations.  Having some regular satellite operators show\nup and make contacts with me - especially when we are mentioning where\nthe other stations are located - makes a great impression on the crowds\nlistening in.  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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