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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Saturday (7 May) at Sierra Vista AZ hamfest & other operating/travels report (long)",
    "date": "2016-05-12T20:56:30Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nSorry for the delay in posting this report. A project at the office has\nconsumed a lot of my time this week - not just during the workdays, but\nalso a couple of very late evenings and early mornings.\n\nLast Saturday's Cochise Amateur Radio Association hamfest in Sierra Vista,\nArizona, was another good event for AMSAT. This is a small, half-day\nhamfest in southern Arizona, which had a good turnout on a great day. No\nrain or heavy winds to deal with. After the hamfest, the afternoon and\nevening was nice for some sightseeing and - of course - more operating.\n\nAfter I drove down to Sierra Vista the night before the hamfest, I only had\na 15-minute drive to reach the hamfest on the edge of town. The gate for\nthe hamfest site was open when I arrived a few minutes after 5am (1200\nUTC). I started to set up my AMSAT table, knowing there was an SO-50 pass\nan hour or so after that. Even though the hamfest didn't officially start\nuntil 7am (1400 UTC), I still had a small crowd on hand for that pass that\nwent to the west of the hamfest. Seven QSOs went in the log on that pass, 6\nfrom stations in the western USA plus XE2BHL in Tijuana. A good start to\nthe morning. The hamfest site is in grid DM41, not a rare Arizona grid with\nsome active satellite operators in the area (NP4JV, W7JPI, W7JSD).\n\nI missed the passes for the XW-2 satellites after SO-50, as I had been\ntalking with people walking around my AMSAT booth, outside the buildings\nat the club's \"Green Acres\" site. After the crowds eased, I set up for a\ndemonstration on AO-73 around 1535 UTC. I moved the VFO on my receiver\nthrough the transponder and down to the telemetry around 145.935 MHz, so\nthe crowd could hear the SSB activity as well as the data that comes from\nthis satellite. I was able to work 3 stations, AA5PK in Texas followed by\nXE1AO and XE1AU (a club station at XE1AO's university in central Mexico).\nOmar, as always, greeted the crowd in English as I talked to him in\nSpanish.\n\nSome time passed before another satellite pass, the first of two AO-85\npasses that have probably become the best for demonstrations. With the\nstronger 2m downlink from AO-85 compared to SO-50's 70cm downlink, many are\nnow able to hear the satellite with almost any 2m FM radio they may have at\na hamfest. The first of the two AO-85 passes Saturday morning came a little\nafter 10am (1700 UTC), which provided for 14 QSOs from coast to coast. A\ngreat way to show off the capabilities of AMSAT's newest satellite, and for\nseveral in the crowd to hear the satellite for themselves on HTs with\neither duckie antennas or (in one case) a telescoping whip antenna.\n\nThe later AO-85 pass, just before 12 noon (1900 UTC) and the official end\nof the hamfest, came up from the west and wrapped around the north. This\nwasn't as busy as the earlier AO-85 pass, but still enough activity for\nmost of the pass. Stations in the western USA and Canada, and as far east\nas K8YSE in Cleveland, made up the 8 QSOs logged on this pass. The shortest\nQSOs were made with Fernando NP4JV, who was across the field from the AMSAT\nbooth, and with Sid W7JSD who worked me from his house a few miles away.\nSid had been out to the hamfest earlier in the morning, and I asked him if\nhe could possibly try working this pass when he returned home.\n\nOn the two AO-85 passes, John K8YSE figured prominently in both passes. Not\nthat John made lots of QSOs on each pass, but that he initially made QSOs\nwith me as K8YSE/7 from his Arizona station, and then made QSOs with me as\nK8YSE from his station in Cleveland. He was physically in Arizona at his\nhome in the Phoenix area, and remotely operating his Cleveland station\nlater in each of these passes. The crowd was impressed with the ability to\nbe on from two different stations at the same time. They were also happy\nwith the extremely long-distance QSO with NP4JV. :-)\n\nAlong with talking with John through both of his stations and seeing both\nFernando and Sid, Fernando had his daughter Yalitza (\"Yali\") with him at\nthe hamfest. Yali took the Technician license exam at the hamfest, and\npassed. Yali has not received a call sign from the FCC yet, but hopefully\nshe does soon, and we can hear her on the satellites from DM41 in the near\nfuture.\n\nUnlike most of my hamfest road trips, I had not made definite plans to go\nanywhere after the hamfest. Talking with Fernando and Yali at lunch after\nthe hamfest, I wanted to try working at least one pass from the nearby\nCoronado National Memorial. This memorial is south of Sierra Vista, at the\nUSA/Mexico border. It is so close to the border that my mobile phone made\nthe switch to a Mexican carrier, until I left the memorial. The best place\nto work an SO-50 pass just after 3pm (2200 UTC) was just inside the east\nentrance of the memorial, near the large Coronado National Memorial sign at\na parking area in front of that sign.  I set up my station, took pictures\nof it and my GPS receiver, and proceeded to work 13 stations on that pass\nacross the USA and Mexico. I think some were hoping another station was\ngoing to show up, so that helped me in making at least 10 QSOs to have this\npass count as an activation for the ARRL's National Parks on the Air\nactivity. This was my second NPOTA activation, and the first for me at a\nNational Park Service site in Arizona following my operating from Lake Mead\nin Nevada the previous weekend (29 April-1 May). Like with the hamfest,\nthis memorial is also in grid DM41.\n\nAfter working the SO-50 pass, I stopped at the visitor center to get the\nobligatory stamps in my passport to show I was at this location, and then\ntook my time heading back to Sierra Vista. My drive home took several\nhours, with a drive through another scenic part of southern Arizona to\nNogales along another portion of the USA/Mexico border, and then up through\nTucson back home. I stopped to work one AO-85 pass in the evening, around\n8.25pm (0325 UTC), logging 4 QSOs from a spot northwest of Tucson in grid\nDM42 before finishing my drive home.\n\nBetween the hamfest and operating from the Coronado National Memorial, this\nwas a fun day in southern Arizona. I'll be on the road for another hamfest\nin eastern Arizona on 4 June, plus I hope to operate from more National\nPark Service sites around Arizona during the summer. Thanks to the Cochise\nAmateur Radio Association for their hospitality in providing AMSAT a space\nat their annual hamfest, and to all of the stations that worked WD9EWK\nduring the hamfest and later in the day at the other locations!\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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