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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ORESLTUJMC3T6QAJGBIVUFJ5UW4BWRDC/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "ORESLTUJMC3T6QAJGBIVUFJ5UW4BWRDC", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ORESLTUJMC3T6QAJGBIVUFJ5UW4BWRDC/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net", "mailman_id": "21664df01bef4757931b7cdb42a9e768", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/21664df01bef4757931b7cdb42a9e768/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)", "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK's road trip - Wednesday (22 July) report", "date": "2009-07-23T06:04:46Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/CBWEELPVWQ2OTEEAWYD2QJFJGPBHRIXK/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Hello!\n\nAfter 7 days and over 1905 miles/3066km on the road, I'm back home\nin Phoenix. Today was mainly a travel day, not wanting to make a \nlate drive home tonight before returning to work tomorrow morning.\nI worked two passes to help some operators get QSOs with certain\ngrids, had lunch in between the two passes, and drove about 400 \nmiles/640km today. \n\nI started the day in Mesquite, Nevada - a small town along the I-15\nfreeway at the Nevada/Arizona border. Before leaving that area, I \nworked one SO-50 pass around 1449 UTC from the DM26xt/DM36at line\njust inside northwestern Arizona. DM26 is on regularly, but not \nDM36. I figured I'd make one pass from here, handing out more QSOs\nfrom there. I was in another part of DM36 in late May, operating\nfrom Grand Canyon Village. In 2008, I worked from 3 different \nspots in DM36 as part of my July 2008 road trip along Arizona's\nborders with Utah and Nevada. I worked 7 stations across the US\nand Canada, not a big number but pretty good for a weekday morning.\n\nAfter the SO-50 pass, I made the hour-long drive down to Las Vegas. \nI met Jeff WB3JFS, a Las Vegas resident and satellite ham, for lunch.\nJeff had told me earlier that he had never worked anyone in his \nhome grid (DM26), but had worked the other grid that covers the \nsouthern end of metropolitan Las Vegas (DM25). I said I would try\nto help him, and planned to work from the DM25jx/DM26ja grid \nboundary where I stopped last year. Jeff gave me some QSL cards \nfor QSOs we had made earlier in my current road trip, saving the\npostage for those cards. :-) After lunch, Jeff went home and I \nwent to the south end of the Las Vegas \"Strip\" for an AO-27 pass \naround 2029 UTC. \n\nIn 7 minutes on AO-27, I worked 15 stations - including WB3JFS - \nfrom the DM25/DM26 grid boundary. I realize that these grids \nwould not be the most rare of the grids in the state of Nevada.\nI was not intending on going to those rare spots on this trip. \nThis stop, and the earlier stop in DM26/DM36, were made to help\nothers specifically looking for at least one of the grids at\nthose stops - and they were not out of my way for today's travels.\n\nAfter the AO-27 pass, I dismantled my portable station and stowed\nthe gear. It was time to return home and wrap up this trip. \nOther than s-l-o-w traffic passing over Hoover Dam on the Colorado\nRiver, the drive was OK. Some rain near Hoover Dam and near \nPhoenix, otherwise a quiet drive where I could set the cruise \ncontrol on my truck. I made a quick stop at Hoover Dam to get \nsome photos of Lake Mead (the water level was much lower than I\nhave ever seen it in person), and held my camera out the window \nto get pictures of the new bridge being built over the river that\nwill replace Hoover Dam as the way to cross the river at that \npoint on the Arizona/Nevada border. \n\nI will post a longer report covering all of my trip in a few days.\nSo far, I know I made over 250 QSOs throughout the trip, working \nfrom 14 grids (DM25, DM26, DM35, DM36, DM37, DM38, DM45, DM46, \nDM47, DM48, DM49, DM57, DM58, DM59) in 3 states (Arizona, Nevada, \nUtah). In between the two AO-27 passes from DM58/DM59 in eastern\nUtah on Monday afternoon, I made a quick road trip to the \nUtah/Colorado border. I stopped at the state line to take some\nphotos, then went to the first exit on I-70 in Colorado before \nreturning to the DM58/DM59 boundary for the later pass. \n\nIf you worked me during the past week - going back to last Thursday,\nthe day before the hamfest in Williams AZ started - and would like \nQSL cards for those QSOs, please e-mail me with a listing of the QSOs.\nIf you're in the log, you'll get a card (or multiple cards). \n\nSince I operated from so many unique locations, I will need a little \nbit of time to prepare cards. As I have tried to do in the last year\nwith my QSL cards, all of these cards will have descriptions of the \nlocation for each QSO including the grid(s), name of the county I \nwas in during the QSO, and an image of my GPS receiver's display \nshowing the latitude and longitude for that location. I will \ninclude the GPS image even for those cards where my location was not\non a grid boundary, to keep all of these cards similar in terms of \nthe information I am presenting for my location. \n\nWas this a fun trip for me? Yes! I've never driven beyond the \nArizona/Utah border area in Utah, and it was fun to see more of that\nstate. Getting on the air a lot over the past week, whether I was\nat the hamfest or on the road after the hamfest closed, was great.\nGenerally there was good cooperation on passes, allowing many to get\nQSOs with me in these different locations. Meeting WB3JFS in Las\nVegas today was a nice surprise, and I was happy to help Jeff and a\nfew others get QSOs with new grids throughout this trip. \n\nTime for bed. Good night, and 73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK - back home in Phoenix, Arizona\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }