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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  XE2/WD9EWK from DM21 and DM22 yesterday",
    "date": "2010-02-19T16:02:43Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nAs I'm getting ready to make the 45-minute drive from Calexico CA\nto the hamfest at Yuma AZ, I wanted to post a little more about my\nexploits (along with Larry KI6YAA and his son Kevin KJ6DDS) \nyesterday...\n\nIt took longer to get paperwork yesterday morning in Mexicali.  \nInstead of a 5- to 10-minute process at the border to get the \n\"tourist card\" entry visa required to apply for the XE ham permit,\nit took over 20 minutes.  More paperwork was required, to satisfy \nany Mexican army checkpoints away from the city (which we did not\nsee).  Once that was done, and the newly-issued entry visas were \nphotocopied, we went to the Mexican communications ministry office \non the south end of Mexicali.  Computer problems here delayed the \nprocess for Larry and me to file the paperwork for our XE radio\npermits, but we were able to get out of there in about 45 minutes.\n\nInstead of stopping for an early lunch before leaving Mexicali for\nDM21 after filing the paperwork for the permit, we left the city\nand drove quickly.  Unfortunately, we were a few miles/km short of \nthe DM21 boundary before the first AO-27 pass around 2025 UTC.  We\nstopped at kilometer 61 on Mexico route 5, the highway from Mexicali\nto the town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California.  After a few\nminutes to set up the station, XE2/WD9EWK was on the air from grid\nDM22ib (32 4.915 N 115 15.305 W).  \n\nSince the plan for the day was to try for DM21, this AO-27 pass was\nthe only time I transmitted from DM22 this afternoon.  As usual for \nthis satellite and a pass that favors the US east coast, it was busy.\nEven with that, XE2/WD9EWK logged 17 QSOs on the 7-minute pass.  When\nthis pass wrapped up, we packed my truck and first went north to a \nsmall shop to get some food and drink.  After that, we drove south a \nlittle further.  I was not so interested in working from the DM21/DM22 \ngrid boundary, but definitely wanted to find a safe spot on the north\nedge of DM21 with good visibility to both the east and west.  We\nfound that spot south of kilometer 78 on route 5, parking near a \nbridge over a section of the Laguna Salada, a salty dry lakebed \nthat is mostly below sea level and is the lowest spot in northern \nBaja California.  According to GPS, this was in grid DM21jw \n(31 56.845 N 115 12.612 W).  \n\nSO-50 came up from the south around 2130 UTC, and we were ready.\nLarry and Kevin were taking pictures and listening to the passes\nwith their gear, and I was working stations with my gear.  The\nfirst contact I logged at DM21jw was with Omar XE1AO in central\nMexico.  I also heard ND9M on this pass, when Jim parked at the\nDL79/DM70 grid boundary in Texas.  Very nice to work him there, \neven as I wished I could have made that contact when I was closer\nto home.  :-)  In all, I was able to log 13 QSOs on this pass.\n\nNot long after that SO-50 pass, I had another AO-27 pass to the \nwest at 2205 UTC.  Fewer stations were on, but I was able to work\nall of them - 7 in all.  At this point, Alex XE2BSS/N2IX drove\ndown from Mexicali and joined us for the rest of the afternoon.  \n\nThe AO-51 pass that came by around 2240 UTC was one I had not \nplanned to work originally.  The maximum elevation for this pass\nwas only 2 degrees, but it was in the direction that had no \nobstructions for at least 100 miles in that direction.  Nothing \ngot in the way at this roadside spot from NNW working clockwise\naround to SSE.  I was able to hear stations around 2243 UTC when\nI had AOS, worked 6 stations between 2245 and 2249 UTC, and the\nsatellite simply went away as predicted at 22:49:23 UTC.  \n\nTwenty minutes later, another SO-50 pass came up from the southwest\ntoward the Pacific coast.  Eight stations were worked, from the \nwest coast across to KD8CAO in Michigan in the last seconds I could\nhear the downlink.  Again, I could make QSOs down to the horizon in\nthe direction SO-50 went away from me (NNE).  \n\nThe second AO-51 pass I had out here came by at 0017 UTC.  This\nwas the pass with the highest elevation I had all afternoon at \nDM21jw, with maximum elevation of 51 degrees toward the east.  \nND9M was on from another grid (DM80), and we both worked lots of \nstations.  I logged a total of 17 QSOs on this pass.  \n\nEven though the third - and last - AO-51 pass from DM21jw was\nscheduled to appear at 0157 UTC, just after sunset, we decided\nto stay out for this pass.  We also saw NH7WN's e-mail and his\nplans to work this pass from Honolulu, and I wanted to try to \nmake a contact with him before we left this area.  Two minutes\ninto the pass, I heard Robert through the satellite, and we \nmade the contact.  Robert was very happy, and all of us in the\nsalty lakebed were also happy with this.  I don't know if NH7WN\nhas worked Mexico via satellite before, but it was our pleasure\nto have had the chance to make that QSO last night.  Seven other\nstations in the USA and western Canada were logged before the \nsatellite went behind a mountain at 0208 UTC.  NH7WN also worked\na few stations while he could hear the satellite.  \n\nWe packed up our equipment with the light from our vehicles.  The\nsunlight had evaporated during the last AO-51 pass, and we did not\nwant to stay out there into the nighttime.  Alex and I drove back\nto Mexicali, making the 78km drive in about an hour.  We met another\nMexicali ham when we reached the city, David XE2DAK.  David has been\non the satellites lately, and was very interested in hearing of our\nstories from this afternoon.  \n\nFor the afternoon, XE2/WD9EWK logged 78 QSOs - 19 from DM22ib, \nand 59 from DM21jw.  Some stations were worked from both grids,\nand others were only worked in one or the other.  I think that\nthese passes, despite the presence of other stations in unusual\nor rare grids along with my station, gave many the opportunity \nto get all of these grids in their logs.  ND9M was on a few\npasses, along with NH7WN on the western AO-51 pass.  When I \nreturn home, I will design and print QSL cards for both of these\nlocations.  I will be happy to send QSLs to all who worked \nXE2/WD9EWK yesterday, and I would like to receive your QSLs for\nthese contacts toward a future satellite VUCC certificate from\nthat area.  \n\nThanks to all the stations on these 7 passes for the QSOs, to \nmy audience for the afternoon (Larry KI6YAA, Kevin KJ6DDS, and\nAlex XE2BSS/N2IX), and Mother Nature for a nice afternoon to \nsit in the middle of the dry lakebed.  Lots of photos were \ntaken, along with a nice high-quality video of the 0017 UTC AO-51\npass; all of this will find its way on the Internet shortly. \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK (and, for the next 6 months, XE2/WD9EWK)\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\n",
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