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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/NQWGJVCN75KCNJ3AGN5TOYUW5HLHEKFP/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "91BA9771DE57884FBCD59E08A62C65A8881D94@BUTTON-DC-02.buttonds.msc.navy.mil", "message_id_hash": "NQWGJVCN75KCNJ3AGN5TOYUW5HLHEKFP", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/NQWGJVCN75KCNJ3AGN5TOYUW5HLHEKFP/", "sender": { "address": "James.T.Clary.civ (a) MSC.NAVY.MIL", "mailman_id": "b915b08afbd343e4b7be6e9fcc383fee", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/b915b08afbd343e4b7be6e9fcc383fee/emails/" }, "sender_name": "Clary, James T, Civilian", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ND9M/MM Op Sked: 13 March and Rare Grid DM02", "date": "2011-03-12T05:54:35Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "We're wrapping up our assignment in the San Diego area. Thankfully, the\ntsunami that resulted from the earthquake in Japan was pretty much a\nnon-event for us, but it was interesting to witness all the different\ntypes of alerts (government, military, and civil) that went out in the\nlocal area.\n\n \n\nWe are scheduled to depart our local anchorage this coming Sunday, 13\nMarch, at 1500Z and head for the Panama Canal. We're due to arrive there\nand transit the Canal on the 23rd and then finish up the trip at\nJacksonville on the 29th.\n\n \n\nI asked the ship's captain to detour the ship a few miles once we get\nunderway so that we would sail southbound through DM02, and he agreed to\nthe request. This is one of the rarest grids to get for those trying to\nwork all 488 grids in the Continental USA. San Clemente Island is\nlocated partially in DM02, but the island is controlled by the Navy,\nwhich only allows military personnel and contractors to come to the\nisland. Also, quite a bit of the grid square is covered by areas used\nfor testing things that go boom.\n\n \n\n(The ARRL offers the \"Fred Fish Memorial Award\" for working all 488 grid\nsquares on 6 meters only. There's currently no award for working all 488\ngrids by satellite, but efforts are being made to get one going.)\n\n \n\nThat's the good part of the detour. The bad part is that the four hours\nor so that we'll be in DM02, there will be only two satellite passes\navailable to work the grid. One is AO27 which will favor the eastern\nstates and provinces but will only be 6 degrees for me. Since I set up\nmy gear on the ship's flight deck which is a bit more than 100 feet\nabove the water line, I can usually hear AO27 throughout its entire\n7-minute window when it's available to me even at low satellite\nelevations like this pass will be.\n\n \n\nThe other pass that I'll be on from DM02 will be either VO52 starting at\n13/1712Z or the second AO27 pass that turns on at about 13/2111Z.\nNeither of those two passes hits the eastern areas.\n\n \n\nWe'll cross into DM01 after that and turn southeast to follow the Baja\ncoastline toward DM11 and DM10 and on down towards Panama. \n\n \n\nOur general direction of travel will be southeast which will typically\ntake us through three different grids each day and probably a fourth and\nsometimes a fifth. I'll be on from as many grids as I can, including in\nthe middle of the night when it's necessary.\n\n \n\nHere is the planned sked:\n\n \n\nVO52 - 13/1712Z - DM13 or DM03 or DM02\n\nAO27 - 13/1930Z - Approx turn on time - DM02\n\nAO27 - 13/2111Z - Approx turn on time - either DM02 or DM01\n\nAO7 - 14/0040Z - if in Mode B - DM01 or DM11\n\nVO52 - 14/0229Z - Probably DM00 or DM10\n\nAO7 - 14/0236Z - if in Mode B - Probably DM00 or DM10\n\nFO29 - 14/0938Z - Looks like DL09 or DL19\n\nAO7 - 14/1440Z - DL18 ?\n\n \n\nWill try to hit these:\n\nAO27 - 13/2251Z - Approx turn on time - DM01 or DM11\n\nAO51 - 13/2314Z - DM01 or DM11\n\nFO29 - 13/2331Z - DM01 or DM11\n\n \n\nMaybe:\n\nVO52 - 14/0402Z\n\n \n\nMy work sked is from 0800-1700 ship's time every day, including\nweekends. Starting Sunday when Daylight Savings Time begins, those hours\ntranslate to 1500-0200Z. Other than my lunch period which is very\nflexible, I'll hit passes during my work hours if possible. As we\napproached the States last month, I was able to get in quite a few\npasses during that time frame; hopefully I'll be as lucky as we head\ntowards the East Coast.\n\n \n\n73,\n\n \n\nJim, ND9M / VQ9JC\n\nGrid DM13\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n", "attachments": [] }