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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/M3F67U3DXZKJ45NGR33D47SNPBWXH27J/?format=api",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Thunderbird Hamfest @ Phoenix AZ,\tlast Saturday (9 January) - report",
    "date": "2016-01-13T04:41:18Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nLast Saturday (9 January), I had an AMSAT booth at the Thunderbird Amateur\nRadio Club's annual hamfest in Phoenix, Arizona. This is one of several\nhamfests in central and southern Arizona away from the summertime. The\nmorning was a little cool and humid, but as the sun came up this was a\ngreat morning. As the rain that had soaked the Phoenix area last week moved\naway, a nice crowd - buyers, and sellers - came out to the hamfest.\n\nDuring the hamfest, I had lots of opportunities to talk about our new AO-85\nsatellite, along with the group of Chinese amateur satellites launched last\nfall, and more Fox-1 satellites in the pipeline. At these hamfests, the\nmost popular events are the on-air demonstrations. Starting with a very\nearly AO-85 pass before 6am (1300 UTC) which was a good pass for collecting\ntelemetry, through two AO-73 passes later in the morning, there is always\ninterest in seeing satellite activity in person. Besides the AO-85 and two\nAO-73 passes, I also worked a pair of LilacSat-2 passes and an XW-2F pass.\nThis makes for a nice mix of FM and SSB satellite operating. As always,\nmany thanks to the stations who called and worked WD9EWK during these\npasses! It helps to have stations come on and say \"hello\" to the crowds,\nand also mention more than a grid locator for their location. I uploaded\nmy log to Logbook of the World for the contacts made at the hamfest, and\nwould be happy to send a QSL card if anyone would like to receive a card\nfor a contact with WD9EWK at the hamfest. Please e-mail me directly with\nthe QSO details, so I can check my log before sending a card your way.\n\nFor the final demonstration pass I had at the hamfest, a western AO-73 pass\na few minutes past 10.30am (1730 UTC), I had contacts with Frank K6FW near\nLos Angeles and Glenn AA5PK in west Texas. After I finished the contact\nwith Glenn, someone in the crowd pointed out that Texas was to the east,\nand I was pointing my Elk log periodic westward. I explained that the\nsatellite was over the eastern Pacific Ocean during this pass, and that\nboth of us would be pointing our antennas at the satellite - not in the\ndirection of the other station for each contact. The proverbial lightbulb\ncame on at that moment, followed by \"cool\". We who regularly work\nsatellites know that we may not point our antennas anywhere in the\ndirection of where the other station is located, but sometimes it takes a\nmoment for that concept to make sense for someone who knows little or\nnothing about satellite communications.\n\nFor almost all of the passes I worked at the hamfest, I used my SDRplay\nSDR receiver and an 8-inch Windows 10 tablet for my downlink receiver. I\nfigured a hamfest would be a great place to demonstrate the power of an SDR\nreceiver like the SDRplay, combined with the small yet functional Windows\ntablet - something I wrote about for the AMSAT Journal and the AMSAT-UK\nOSCAR News publications in the past year. \"Eating my own dog food\", you\ncould say. I was able to use the shade from my parked car so I could see\nthe tablet's screen, and the tablet/SDR receiver combination attracted lots\nof interest from the hamfest crowd. Using HDSDR on the tablet, I was able\nto see the transponder and other telemetry from the satellites. I think I\ntalked about the tablet/SDR combination as much as the satellite that were\nrecently launched and those coming up during 2016.\n\nThanks to the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club for providing AMSAT space for\na booth at the hamfest. This is the 10th consecutive year I have been at\nthis hamfest representing AMSAT. I'm looking forward to the next hamfest\nwhere I will represent AMSAT - the Yuma Hamfest, which is also the 2016\nARRL Southwest Division Convention, in southwestern Arizona next month.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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