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        "address": "n3tl (a) bellsouth.net",
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    "sender_name": "Tim - N3TL",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  AO-7 was Rockin' tonight!",
    "date": "2010-06-27T02:58:16Z",
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    "content": "Hey everyone,\n\n \n\nI've never heard AO-7 so busy.\n\n \n\nI'm sure she has been - \"in the old days,\" back in the 1970s when she was\nstill new to orbit. But tonight on the pass that reached the W4G Field Day\nsite about 0026 UTC, I heard more stations on AO-7 than I've heard in the\ntwo years I've been working the satellites - and I stayed in the CW portion\nof the passband! If CW was that busy, I suspect the SSB going on above\n145.950 was even busier. Some may disagree (because I'm confident I'm not\nthe only one who heard the \"FMing\"), but I was happy to hear the Grand Old\nGirl get such a workout.\n\n \n\nI promised the clubs from Athens, Ga., and Commerce, Ga. - who do a combined\nField Day effort using the 1x1 call W4G - that I'd try to get them the\n100-point satellite bonus. In 2009, I worked most of the Saturday and\nSunday-morning FD passes as the W4G satellite station, and we did ok. For a\nnumber of reasons this year, I didn't commit to more than the time necessary\nto get them the bonus.\n\n \n\nI took a different tack with the station setup this year, too, because I\nwanted to show the folks how little gear is necessary to effectively work\nthe satellites - even the highest-orbiting, oldest one in the amateur fleet.\nI used an FT-817ND as the transmit radio, and a Yaesu VR-500 handheld\nall-mode receiver as the receive radio. I connected both to my Elk antenna\nwith a Diamond diplexer. In addition to hand-holding the Elk and manually\ntracking AO-7, I tuned for Doppler manually and used a straight key for CW.\nThere was a lot going on during the pass, for sure.\n\n \n\nMy goal was to show those folks that effective satellite communications\ndoesn't require significant expense or so much equipment that portable\noperation is problematic at best. If you can connect an all-mode VHF/UHF\nreceiver and an all-mode QRP rig that also covers VHF/UHF to an Elk or an\nArrow handheld antenna, you only need to add headphones (to avoid feedback\nduring full-duplex operation) and a key or microphone to work any of the FM\nor linear satellites. I dare say that if all the stations I heard on AO-7\ntonight had been running no more than 5 watts into their antennas, the FMing\nprobably wouldn't have been nearly so bad.\n\n \n\nThanks from W4G to W5MSQ, N9AMW and W8DXA for the calls. I had a splitter\ncable from the headphone jack on the VR-500 to two sets of headphones, so\nseveral people got to listen to portions of the pass on the second set of\nheadphones. It was fun seeing the looks on their faces as they heard CW\narriving from orbit!\n\n \n\nBest of luck to everyone this Field Day!\n\n \n\n73 and God Bless,\n\n\nTim - N3TL\n\nAthens, Ga. - EM84ha\n\n",
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