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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/LQNBEJHD4HGL2RTLOLWEHOM3ALJVYT7X/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "LQNBEJHD4HGL2RTLOLWEHOM3ALJVYT7X", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/LQNBEJHD4HGL2RTLOLWEHOM3ALJVYT7X/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net", "mailman_id": "21664df01bef4757931b7cdb42a9e768", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/21664df01bef4757931b7cdb42a9e768/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)", "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK from DM34/DM44, 13 May 2007", "date": "2007-05-17T19:03:40Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Hi!\n\nAfter a few days, I have been able to sit down and download pictures\nfrom my camera, audio from my recorder, make some MP3 files of those\naudio recordings, and log my contacts from that Sunday trip I just\ntook to northern Arizona. It was a fun drive, making 24 contacts from\n3 different locations during 5 different passes (2 on AO-51, 2 on SO-50,\n1 on AO-27) throughout the day.\n\nFirst stop, DM34we (34.184433 N 112.134783 W, 3400 feet/1036m elevation)\n\nAfter leaving home at 0645 local (1345 UTC), I drove north to a freeway\nrest area on the edge of a valley about 50 miles/80km north of Phoenix\non the I-17 freeway. This rest area, at Sunset Point, has a good view\nof the sky in all directions, and was about 12 miles/20km north of the\nDM33/DM34 boundary so I could start my operating from DM34. You can\nsee a map with photo from Google Maps of this location at:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=34.184433333+n+\\\n112.134783333+w&ie=UTF8&ll=34.195617,-112.116938&spn=\\\n0.050618,0.065489&t=h&z=14&om=0\n\nI parked at the south end of the parking lot, so the back of my\nwife's truck was pointing northeast - perfect for the upcoming\nSO-50 pass. The pass, at 1444-1458 UTC, was a nice one to start\nwith. It had a maximum elevation of 38 degrees, going from north\nto southeast, and I hoped that would bring more than 1 or 2 contacts\nto start the morning. It did - 5 contacts (W6ZQ in Arizona, N5AFV\nin Texas, and 3 Mexican stations - XE2HWB, XE2MWY, XE2WY). Once\nthe pass ended, I packed up my stuff and drove about 25 miles/40km\nfurther north for more fun.\n\nDM34xm/DM44am (34.51875 N 112.0 W, 4455 feet/1358m elevation)\n\nThis was the area I had identified previously as a good spot I could\ndrive to and operate from both of these grids at once. It was a little\nmore than 1/2 mile/1km west of the I-17 freeway, and north of Arizona\nroute 169, just inside the boundary of the Prescott National Forest.\nFor those not familiar with Arizona, a forest at this elevation has\nfew trees. I was able to follow a dirt track north from route 169 that\nturned east and let me park at this spot away from the highways and\nhave a good view of the sky. A map with photo of this location is at:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=34.51875+n+\\\n112.0+w&ie=UTF8&ll=34.518898,-111.9942&spn=\\\n0.025211,0.032744&t=h&z=15&om=0\n\nSince I didn't have plans for lunch until 2100 UTC, I knew I could\nspend the morning playing radio on my way to lunch. I arrived at\nthis spot about 20 minutes before the first AO-51 pass I could work\nat 1541-1556 UTC, confirmed the location with my GPS receiver and\ntook a couple of photos of the display showing 112 degrees West\nexactly, and set up my equipment.\n\nThe first AO-51 pass, toward my east, was the busiest pass of the\n5 I worked. This was also the pass with the highest elevation, at\n62 degrees. I made contacts with 9 USA stations and 2 Mexican\nstations during this pass. All of those contacts were in the first\nhalf of the 15-minute pass, and I did not hear any other stations\ncome on for the last half. Oh well... it was fun to get on and\nhelp others put these grids into their satellite logs.\n\nAbout 30 minutes later, I had an SO-50 pass that went to the west of\nme between 1625 and 1638 UTC. It was a 20-degree pass, and I figured\nthat there would be only a few showing up on there. Unfortunately, I\nwas right - Mark WA8SME in California and Bernardo XE2HWB in southern\nBaja California were the only 2 I heard during the entire pass. I\nworked them both, then waited for the final AO-51 pass of the morning\nI'd work from this location.\n\nWhen AO-51 returned for a pass at 1721-1733 UTC, it was only up at\n14 degrees maximum elevation. Not an impossible pass to work, but\none that would probably have few stations show up. After a couple\nof minutes, I work Dino VE7XDT near Vancouver. Dino was demonstrating\nsatellite operating at a swap meet, and I was happy to say \"hello\" to\nhim and his group there. I made contacts with 4 more stations in Idaho,\nCalifornia, and Washington state to complete this pass.\n\nAfter these passes, I drove across to Payson - a small city about 90\nmiles/145km northeast of Phoenix - for lunch. After lunch, I saw that\nI had time to work an AO-27 pass on my drive back to Phoenix. This\npass was a \"bonus\", as I had not previously announced any plans to\nwork afternoon passes on this day.\n\nDM44ha (34.0347 N 111.365866667 W, 3196 feet/974m elevation)\n\nThis location was another highway rest area, at the junction of two\nArizona state routes (87 and 188) about 15 miles/25km south of Payson\non the way back to Phoenix. I had quickly driven to the DM43/DM44\nboundary, but there were too many mountains to the west so close to\nthat spot I decided not to try working AO-27 from there. This rest\narea is about 3 miles/5km north of the DM43/DM44 boundary, but with\na better view of the western sky. You may see a map with aerial photo\nof the location at:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=34.0347+n+\\\n111.365866667+w&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&om=0\n\nAlong with running my PREDICT program, I used the Java applet from\nthe AO-27 web site http://www.ao27.org/ to know the approximate time\nthe AO-27 repeater would switch on for the pass I could work. The\nstart time was 2315 UTC, and I was ready to go. Or so I thought.\n\nI knew that the AO-27 timer is not the most accurate timepiece. I\nexpected that it would turn the repeater on a little early, but I\nthink I missed the first 30 seconds. There were some high moutains\nsouthwest of me, and I think I might not have been pointing at the\nsatellite accurately. Once I heard Mark WA8SME on there, I called\nhim and made another contact with him. Nobody else showed up during\nthe pass, even when we would take breaks to invite others to join,\nso we chatted until the repeater switched off at 2322 UTC. Only\none contact during the pass, but better than nothing.\n\nRecap\n\nOverall, I made a total of 24 contacts on 5 different passes. I worked\nstations in 10 US states, 1 Canadian province, 4 Mexican states, and a\ntotal of 18 grids. I made 7 contacts on 2 SO-50 passes, 16 contacts on\n2 AO-51 passes, and 1 contact on the AO-27 pass I worked later in the\nday. Maybe not a large number of contacts, but 11 on one AO-51 pass\nwas pretty good. With the hot weather in the deserts of central and\nsouthern Arizona during the summertime, I hope to be able to repeat\ntrips like this and possibly to some other grids further north.\n\nI have posted photos from the first two stops I made, along with MP3\nrecordings of the passes I worked from those locations, on some free\nweb space I have. You can find those files at:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/xe2wd9ewk/20070513-DM34_DM44/\n\nSince this is free web space, Geocities will enforce hourly bandwidth\nrestrictions. If you have difficulties in accessing those MP3s or\nphotos, please e-mail me directly and I would be happy to send you\nany of those files.\n\n73!\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n", "attachments": [] }