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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK's 19 April road trip (long)",
    "date": "2008-04-21T17:54:30Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI haven't done a road trip like I did on Saturday in a long time.\nI woke up early, left Phoenix before sunrise (5am local/1200 UTC),\nwas part of an event with a radio club 90 minutes north of the city, \nand then proceed to put a bunch of miles (456.5 miles/734km) on my \ntruck.  In all of this, I was able to park in 4 different locations, \nputting a total of 4 different grids on the air during 4 AO-51 and \n2 AO-27 passes and making a total of 65 QSOs with stations in the \ncontinental USA, Canada, Mexico, and Alaska.  Through my fuel\npurchases, I also made a small boost in the economies of some \noil-producing countries.  \n\nThe primary reason for the trip on Saturday was to help the Yavapai\nAmateur Radio Club with their activity at an event in Prescott AZ, \nabout 100 miles/160km north of Phoenix.  I added to that a loop \nthrough northern Arizona that would allow me to operate from 4 \ndifferent grids, and in particular put a couple of unusual (for \nsatellite ops) grids on the air: DM35 and DM45.  These two grids\nin northern Arizona are rarely on the satellites, unless someone \ndriving on I-40 decides to stop and work passes from up there.\nI can probably count on one hand the number of passes I've heard\nstations from both of these grids in the last 2+ years.  \n\nFirst stop... 1410 UTC, about 85 miles/137km north of Phoenix, \nwest of the I-17 freeway in grids DM34xm and DM44am at 4455 feet\n(1358m) elevation:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=34+31.125+N+112+0.00+w&ie=UTF8&ll=34.079962,-112.08252&spn=3.621272,5.218506&t=h&z=8&iwloc=addr&om=0\n\nThis was a pass to my east, and the only time I would be on the\nair from DM44 during the day.  Lots of activity, and I was able \nto log contacts with 12 stations in Canada, Mexico, and the US.\nI have operated from this spot off and on in the past year, and\nthis time I had an \"audience\" - some cattle, roaming through this\nfield just inside the Prescott National Forest.  In this area, the\nnational forest has very few trees.  It is more high desert than \nforested area.  \n\nAfter this pass, I made the 30-mile/50km drive west to Prescott.\nThe event I was helping with would be in the public library in \ndowntown Prescott, grid DM34sm:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=34.5397+n+112.4672+w&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=34.341168,-111.810608&spn=1.85958,2.69989&t=h&z=9&iwloc=addr\n\nThe event was only for 2 hours, between 10am and 12 noon (1700-\n1900 UTC), and its location on a hill prevented me from working\nany eastern passes unless the satellites were above 40 or 45 \ndegrees elevation.  I was able to do a demonstration on one AO-51\npass to the west at 1548 UTC, logging contacts with 9 stations \nfrom Alaska to Mexico.  The event, primarily focused on astronomy,\nwas a good one.  The Yavapai Amateur Radio Club had a table with \ngeneral information on amateur radio including details of a local \nschool's SAREX contact in 1994 and another table with information \non radio astronomy, along with my table with satellite-related \ninformation.  Thanks to Ray W1OTH, Terry KB7TRE, Bob WB6ODR, and \nthe others with the radio club and the Prescott Astronomy Club for \nyour assistance.  \n\nAfter the event wrapped up, I grabbed some lunch and drove 35 \nmiles/56km north to a spot east of Arizona route 89 in grids\nDM34tx and DM35ta near Drake AZ (25 miles/40km south of Ash\nFork and the I-40 freeway):\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35+0.00+n+112+23.132+w&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=34.288992,-112.412109&spn=3.830102,7.734375&t=h&z=7\n\nThis was a very nice spot, again just inside the Prescott \nNational Forest in the high desert (4735 feet/1443m elevation,\nper my GPS receiver).  I had a great view of the sky in all \ndirections, no hassles from people driving on the road, and was \nable to work a pair of AO-27 passes.  I made 10 QSOs on the 2121 \nUTC pass to the east, and 8 more on the 2302 UTC pass to the west.   \n\nAfter those passes, it was time to pack up my stuff and move on\nto the last spot I wanted to reach.  After a 45-mile/72km drive\nI reached a spot on old US 66 west of Parks AZ in grids DM35xg\nand DM45ag:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=35+15.570+n+112+0.00+w&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=34.669359,-112.071533&spn=3.812693,7.734375&t=h&z=7\n\nNo more high desert here.  I was in the Kaibab National Forest,\nand this actually looked like a forest with lots of tall trees.\nI had gone up in elevation, up to 7128 feet/2173m.  I had almost \n90 minutes before the first AO-51 pass of the evening, so I tried \nto find a good spot that would still put me on the DM35/DM45 \nline away from the road.  No luck with that, so I parked on the\nside of the road and prepared for the first pass.  \n\nWhen I started to hear the satellite come up from the southeast,\nit was already jammed with stations from all over the USA and \nMexico.  Despite the crowd, I was able to make quick contacts with\n15 different stations during the 0120 UTC pass.  Between that pass\nand the 0259 UTC pass to the west, I drove around the area again\nto see the sights while there was still sunlight.  I returned to \nthe same spot for the 0259 UTC pass, and made 11 more contacts with\nstations from Mexico up to Alaska to wrap up my satellite operating\nfor the day.  After I dismantled my station, I drove to Flagstaff \nfor dinner.  Then a quick look around that city, before driving down \nthe I-17 freeway to go home.  \n\nIf anyone who worked me Saturday wants a QSL card for the contact(s), \nplease e-mail me.  If I already have a QSL card from an earlier \nsatellite QSO with you, there's no need to send me another card.  If \nwe have not worked before, I would appreciate receiving your QSL card.  \nIf you didn't work me and would like to hear DM35, DM45, or some other \nunusual grids in Arizona on future satellite passes, there will be \nother opportunities as summer approaches.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK \nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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