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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK - Wednesday evening in Indiana, working AO-85...",
    "date": "2015-10-15T03:46:28Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nAfter flying from Phoenix to Indianapolis, I drove up to Fort Wayne for the\nnight. On the 125-mile drive, I made two stops to work AO-85 passes. I have\nworked from EN70 and EN71 before, but those past occasions were times I\noperated from Ohio. Between a freeway rest area and a parking lot for a\nlarge store, I was able to give out these two grids and have fun on the new\nbird.\n\nBetween pass predictions I printed at home last night and my AmsatDroid\nFree app on my mobile phone, I had a good idea when I could work passes. I\ndecided to focus on AO-85 tonight, even though I basically have my complete\nsatellite station with me. I decided I would stop about 25 to 30 minutes\nbefore the first of the two AO-85 passes I worked, so I could disassemble\nmy suitcase and carry-on bags enough to get my gear ready for the pass. I\nassembled an Elk antenna, pulled out everything related to my 8-inch HP\ntablet and SDRplay receiver, my IC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio (that was\nan item of interest in the Phoenix airport this morning, especially with\nits faceplate packed away from the radio), and accessories like an audio\nsplitter, diplexer, coax, etc. I had everything ready in time to take some\npictures, and tweet a couple of them before the pass.\n\nI used the same setup that I have used at home a couple of times with this\nsatellite - Icom IC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile transceiver for the uplink,\nset to transmit in narrow FM; SDRplay SDR receiver, 8-inch Windows 10\ntablet with HDSDR, all connected through a diplexer to my Elk log periodic.\nI plug an audio splitter into the tablet's headset jack, and split the\nreceive audio between earbuds for me and a Sony audio recorder. I know I\ncould also have HDSDR write an audio recording at the same time it writes\nan RF recording, but I don't want to risk overloading the tablet.\n\nWhen 2305 UTC came, I could hear AO-85 after it was up about 2 to 3 degrees\nelevation. It sounds like most stations were using narrow FM on the uplink,\nas most signals sounded pretty good this evening. I was able to log QSOs\nwith 7 stations, including Paul N8HM on top of the parking garage next to\nthe Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Dayton, site of this weekend's AMSAT\nSymposium. During this pass, I could hear XW-2F passing by - just like I\ndid on Sunday evening back in Phoenix. I saw stations working the XW-2F\ntransponder, and also saw XW-2F's CW beacon, as I worked AO-85.\n\nAfter that pass, I drove north to Fort Wayne. I realized that Fort Wayne is\nbasically at the EN70/EN71 grid boundary, but did not want to try to find a\ngood spot for that boundary in the dark. I have only been through Fort\nWayne once before, so I'm not familiar with the area. I kept an eye on my\nTH-D72A's GPS location, waiting to see EN71 appear on the screen. Once that\nhappened, I looked for an exit off I-69, and for something like a truck\nstop or large parking lot at a store or shopping center to park. Just north\nof the grid boundary, I exited the freeway, and found a parking lot just\nwest of the freeway.\n\nAfter setting up my gear on the roof of my car, and waiting for AO-85 to\npop up over the western horizon around 0051 UTC, I had no problems hearing\nit. I worked 8 stations during this pass, including someone else heading to\nDayton (Wyatt AC0RA - he was in EN60 for this pass). It was also nice to\nhear stations from the western USA, like Larry WA6DIR and Jack KC7MG, from\nhere in Fort Wayne, plus VE4AMU in Manitoba.\n\nMost stations sounded pretty good on both passes. The later pass was a\nlittle harder for me to hear, not keeping up with the fading as well as I\nhad been doing on the earlier pass. I think more stations were transmitting\nin narrow FM tonight. A couple were not, and one sounded so-so at best -\neven after trying to adjust the FM settings in HDSDR in an attempt to clean\nup the audio. My portable setup worked well from the rooftop of my rental\ncar in two different locations, a good sign for upcoming activities later\non in the coming week.\n\nThe SDRplay is working very well as my receiver for working satellites,\nincluding AO-85. HDSDR's AFC function works well, except in close proximity\nto the XW-2F CW beacon and/or transponder signals (the 2305 UTC pass had\nboth AO-85 and XW-2F in view at EN70). Being able to fine-tune how narrow I\nheard the FM signals, and being able to raise the filtering on the low end\nof the received signals to eliminate any noise from the telemetry, makes\nthis a very powerful way to work these passes. I will try to upload the\ntelemetry from the RF recordings of both passes this evening.\n\nI have uploaded the audio recordings, along with photos and screengrabs,\nfrom both of these passes to my Dropbox space:\n\nhttp://dropbox.wd9ewk.net/\n\nAgain, press F5 if the file/folder listing doesn't appear immediately. I\nhope to be able to upload my RF recordings in a day or two from Dayton,\ndepending on the Internet access at the Symposium hotel. I won't try to\nupload them using my mobile phone's hotspot, as they are too big to do\nwithout exhausting my monthly data allowance in a matter of a couple of\ndays. I hope to have tonight's QSOs uploaded to Logbook of the World\nshortly, for those looking to get confirmations for EN70 and/or EN71.\nQSL cards will also be available after the trip; please e-mail me with\nthe QSO details, and I'll send a card if you're in the log.\n\nTomorrow will be a busy day, between making a quick stop at the border\ntripoint where 3 states come together (Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio) and\ndriving down to Dayton to attend the AMSAT Symposium. Please follow my\n@WD9EWK Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/WD9EWK ) for updates on my\nactivities, and my car should show up on APRS as WD9EWK-9 (visible at\nhttp://aprs.fi/WD9EWK-9 among other places). Day 1 was fun, and there is\na week to go...\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - Fort Wayne, Indiana\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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