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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  WD9EWK - 2010 Field Day",
    "date": "2010-06-29T05:52:09Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nField Day was fun, even if my \"contest\" was only a Saturday event.\nI did not stay out for the whole time, but enjoyed being in the\nmountains in a forest playing radio.  I also had a chance to make\nsome QSOs on HO-68 about an hour or so before the start of Field \nDay.  A good way to avoid the 111F/44C heat in my home city of\nPhoenix.  \n\nOn my way to my Field Day site, I stopped in Flagstaff AZ near the \nI-17/I-40 junction to sneak in on an HO-68 pass at 1645 UTC.  I \nparked in a parking lot west of the junction and the Northern Arizona\nUniversity campus in grid DM45de, and made 7 QSOs before the satellite \nwas out of range.  After that, I packed up my gear and finished my \ndriving to my Field Day spot.  \n\nI parked at the same place I used for Field Day last year, the Garland \nPrairie Vista picnic ground in the Kaibab National Forest.  This picnic \narea is 20 miles/32km west of Flagstaff AZ, along old US-66 in grid \nDM45ag.  Along with last year's Field Day, I have worked from along the \nroad just west of here at the DM35xg/DM45ag grid boundary several times \nin the past couple of years.  I set up my station in the back of my \ntruck, catching some shade and enjoying the occasional breeze through \nthe forest.  There have been some forest fires near this area, but those\nwere some distance away from me.  I worked HF and 6m, along with the \nsatellites, enjoying the much cooler weather at this site.  This year, \nfor the first time, I made some SSB satellite QSOs.  :-)  \n\nI had a VO-52 pass right at the start of Field Day, 1800 UTC Saturday.\nIt was a shallow pass, and at that time the satellite was only up a \nfew degrees from the horizon to the southwest.  No luck in completing \na QSO in the 4 or 5 minutes of the pass that started Field Day, but \nI'd get a QSO on VO-52 later.  Off to HF and - when I heard activity - \n6m to log some QSOs before SO-50 and AO-27 passes to the west starting \nat 2112 UTC.  \n\nI was able to make my SO-50 QSO with W0NT in Colorado before AO-27 \nstarted up.  Then a quick QSO on AO-27 with \"neighbor\" WA2DFI in \nanother part of Arizona took care of my QSOs for 2 of the 3 FM birds. \nA few stations called for me toward the end of the pass after I made\nmy QSO.  I responded, so they could get their QSOs on AO-27.  These \nadditional AO-27 QSOs were listed on my ARRL and AMSAT logs, but not \ncounted in the score for either event.  I then went back to HF for an \nhour, before an AO-7 pass at 2242 UTC.  Lots of stations, but the 7-\ndegree pass at my location proved to be a barrier.  No QSOs logged on \nthis pass, but I had 2 more AO-7 passes later.  Back to HF and 6m...\n\nBetween 0018 UTC and 0110 UTC, I had passes on AO-51 followed by \nAO-7 and FO-29.  I was able to get Alvaro XE2AT on AO-51, something\non the order of a miracle with all the stations trying to get on \nthere.  Then over to AO-7, which - once again - was as busy as 20m\nSSB.  Near the end of the pass, Rick VE4AMU was able to hear me \nwell enough to make a QSO.  Then the fun really started on FO-29.\n\nFO-29's pass to my east, starting at 0055 UTC, was what I hoped it\nwould be for my Field Day effort.  During that 15-minute pass, I was \nable to work 4 stations.  It was easier for me to find my 5W signals \nin the downlink, and hold it for the QSOs I made.  I know there were \nmany more stations I did not work on that pass, but these QSOs got me \nexcited for more satellite passes an hour or so later. \n\nBefore the last group of satellite passes in the hour starting around\n0222 UTC, I copied the W1AW Field Day bulletin on 17m SSB.  After that, \nI packed the HF/6m side of my station and got ready for 3 more passes -\nAO-7 at 0222 UTC, then FO-29 at 0240 UTC, and VO-52 at 0308 UTC.  The \nfirst two passes were to my west, and VO-52 was on a pass to my east.  \n\nWhen AO-7 came up, I was able to quickly find myself in the downlink\nand started calling CQ.  Throughout the 20-minute pass, I made 5 QSOs!\nThe most-productive satellite pass I worked all day.  As AO-7 was going\naway, FO-29 was coming up.  Despite hearing myself through the bird \nand alternating between calling CQ and trying to answer other CQ calls,\nI made no QSOs.  Not a problem, since I had one more pass I wanted to \nwork as the sun was setting.  VO-52 was loud, with many stations just \nlike I heard on the earlier AO-7 and FO-29 passes.  Near the end of \nthe pass, WI9MRC in Wisconsin patiently asked for repeats in order to\ncomplete our QSO.  This was my only VO-52 QSO, but it was fun to slug\nit out with my 5W radios trying to make that QSO happen. \n\nWhen VO-52 went away, I turned on a couple of flashlights to help see\nas I dismantled the satellite station and pack things in my truck for \nthe drive down I-40 to a truck stop for food and fuel, followed by \nthe 2-hour drive home.  \n\nFor ARRL Field Day, I logged 49 QSOs on bands between 40m and 6m plus\nthe satellites.  For AMSAT Field Day, 14 QSOs on 6 satellites - 6 on \nAO-7, 4 on FO-29, and one each on the other 4 (AO-27, AO-51, SO-50, \nVO-52).  All done on battery power with a pair of 12V/20Ah jumpstart \nbattery packs, 5W transmitter power, without generators or running off\nmy truck's electrical system.  No world records, but spending the day\nin the mountains playing radio was a lot of fun.  The SSB satellite \nactivity, in particular, was a great test of my skills in advance of\nmy trip to Canada next weekend.  \n\nI used an IC-703 HF/6m transceiver at 5W with an Outbacker Joey HF/VHF \nvertical for my HF and 6m work, and my Elk Antennas handheld 2m/70cm \nlog periodic as my satellite antenna.  I swapped between different \nradios for the FM satellites (an IC-2820H 2m/70cm FM mobile radio,\nthrottled back to 5W) and SSB (two FT-817NDs, connected to the log \nperiodic through a diplexer).  My ARRL web site soapbox entry for this\nyear's Field Day, along with some photos, can be seen at:\nhttp://www.arrl.org/soapbox/view/7117\n\nI've worked Field Day with my call as a 1B/1-op/Battery station every \nyear since 2001, and since 2006 on the satellites.  My ARRL score won't \nbe as big as in 2009 with a slightly-lower QSO count, but being able to \nlog those SSB satellite QSOs meant I achieved the goal I set for myself \nfor this year's Field Day.  And, as always, having fun at the same time.  \n\nField Day is always a fun time for me, and I look forward to the 2011 \nevent.  Thanks to all the stations that made QSOs with WD9EWK, whether \non the satellites or on HF or 6m.  73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK \nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\n",
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