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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] ] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award",
    "date": "2013-08-23T18:01:53Z",
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    "content": "\n\nJohn, congratulations! Don't let this wonderful achievement slow down your hamsat contacts and activity!\n73\nGeorge\nWA5KBH \n \n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: \"Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)\" <[email protected]>\nSent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:01\nTo: \"John Papay\" <[email protected]>, [email protected]\nSubject: [amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award\n\n\n\nJohn,\n\nCongratulations on working all 488 grids! I'm glad I was able to be\na part of that total.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\nOn Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:08 PM, John Papay <[email protected]> wrote:\n\n> Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware\n> that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated\n> from CN72 in Oregon. And I thought it might be interesting\n> to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm\n> all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.\n>\n> Satellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them.\n> A grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is\n> off the air when that person goes away for whatever reason.\n> Interestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were\n> from those operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio\n> with batteries, but in the traditional sense of operating away from\n> their home station location. Once you have experienced being on the\n> other end of a small pileup, you will want to do it again. Just ask\n> W7LRD who tried it recently and is planning another trip. Here is\n> a list of operators who exited the comfort of their home station and\n> put a grid on the air. The callsign is followed by the number of new\n> grids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488. Others may have\n> been worked but these totals represent the first time a new grid was\n> confirmed.\n>\n> ND9M 54\n> WD9EWK 27\n> WC7V 19\n> KD4ZGW 16\n> KB0RZD 10\n> KC0YBM 9\n> AA5CK 8\n> KA6SIP 8\n> KD8COQ 8\n> N5ZNL 7\n> W6GMT 7\n> N0JE 6\n> N2SPI 6\n> WA4NVM 5\n> KB5WIA 4\n> KB9BIT 4\n> KC0ZHF 4\n> KK0SD 4\n> AA5PK 3\n> K7CWQ 3\n> UT1FG 3\n> W6ZKH 3\n> WA6ARA 3\n> WA7HQD 3\n> WA8SME 3\n> AC0ZA 2\n> AJ9K 2\n> K0BAM 2\n> K7DRA 2\n> K7TRK 2\n> KA0RID 2\n> KC2LRC 2\n> KE7DOV 2\n> N3TL 2\n> N5AFV 2\n>\n> Jim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner. Along with working\n> satellites he is also active on the county hunters nets. Most of\n> his activity was between 2009 and 2011. He was also active from a\n> cargo ship and gave out the very rare DM02. Jim would travel for\n> months at a time and worked from a few hundred grids. Most of that\n> operating was done on FM birds rather than linear ones. It was\n> great to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51 were active.\n> HO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too. 54 new grids came\n> from Jim and he tops the list.\n>\n> Most everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK. He has done a lot of traveling\n> both in the US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids. He was very\n> active on the birds until recently. He was an alternate on the AMSAT\n> Board of Directors and was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT\n> Area Coordinator program. He virtually has no home station and most\n> all local contacts were made from a park near his apartment in Phoenix.\n> He knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner.\n>\n> Next on the list is Kerry WC7V. He lives in sparsely populated Montana\n> and travels around by car and in his light aircraft. He went to many\n> grids at my request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from\n> many rare locations. He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids.\n>\n> Next on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m. Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all\n> heard him on a satellite one day. He didn't know his grid square but\n> he knew his milepost on the interstate. From there we had the grid\n> square. Rob went on to improve his mobile station and activated over\n> 100 grid squares. He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not\n> been active for some time. He is fourth on the list with 16 grids.\n>\n> The next three are very special because they all became new operators\n> during the quest to work all 488. Gail KB0RZD is very active today,\n> usually operating with a handie-talkie. He went to 10 grids around him\n> and sent some photo qsl cards that were just outstanding. KC0YBM operated\n> from his home location for a long time before I realized he was very\n> close to other grids. Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested\n> he look into an AC inverter for the car. He did just that and soon he\n> was operating portable from some new grids. This speaks to the ham radio\n> culture that you find a way to operate with what you have. Chris continues\n> to be active and hands out grids in the US and Canada. And then there\n> is Ted, AA5CK. He has operated in grids around his home qth as well as\n> some rare ones in New Mexico. He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where\n> I made my first grid expedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of\n> the White Dog Ranch on old Route 66. I remember Ted's first sat contact.\n>\n> There are a few very special operators that can't be left out. My son,\n> KD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad. He knows how to operate\n> portable and gives out the grids when he travels. Then there was\n> Richard N2SPI. I asked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been\n> on and he took the challenge and drove to all of them, getting back to\n> his dad's place during the first snow of the season. Dave KB5WIA made\n> quite the trip by backpacking into CM79. It took two trips to transport\n> the equipment into the grid. He has a video of it on youtube.\n>\n> I started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August\n> 2008. From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109. In 2009 199\n> were worked. 2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44. Only 4 new grids were worked\n> in 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013. Eight of those final 9 grids were\n> handed out by Tom KA6SIP. He heard about the need and decided to make a\n> grid expedition to put them on the air. He did 7 of them in one trip.\n> Then Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for\n> the first time. That left CN72. Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly\n> made plans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20\n> August\n> 2013 at 2332z. Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very\n> rare grid square but one that I already had. Many others worked him there.\n>\n> There is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is\n> for six meters (FFMA). The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will\n> implement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote\n> and it passes. Hopefully that will happen soon. Having that type of award\n> gives everyone something to work for. It promotes grid expeditions and\n> interest in working through the satellites. If we all contact our\n> ARRL Director, it might just happen.\n>\n> There may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites.\n> K6YK might be one of them. I know there are several others who are\n> getting close. It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate\n> every day. It is something you can work towards over the years.\n>\n> I want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that\n> ultimately\n> led to working all 488. Many went out of their way to put on a grid. Over\n> half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions! If you haven't\n> experienced\n> operating away from home, please consider it. With new operators showing\n> up\n> on the birds every day, there is always a need for an uncommon grid. And\n> you\n> will have a lot of fun doing it! Just ask anyone on my list.\n>\n> 73,\n> John K8YSE\n>\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<http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb>\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",
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