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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/P4755U7AFBBUXAEAQNG6OYD6MHFGFKFG/",
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    "message_id": "CAN6TEUeE=JmL_iGE0_6K_iNZTkJTSAYA_hK0XBRB3eMPE9iz6A@mail.gmail.com",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Post-hamfest road trip on 11-12 June - report (long)",
    "date": "2016-06-21T14:26:11Z",
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    "content": "Hi again!\n\nAfter the Prescott Hamfest on 11 June, I planned on making a loop through\nnorthern Arizona before returning home the following evening (12 June). I\nended up making stops in 3 grids (this included a grid boundary), three\nnational monuments, and making an official ARRL National Parks on the Air\n(NPOTA) activation in the process. And, of course, having fun while doing\nall of this...\n\nWhen I packed up my stuff at the Prescott Hamfest on Saturday (11 June)\nafternoon, and after making a quick stop for dinner as I left Prescott, I\ndrove north on AZ-89 toward the I-40 freeway. On the way up to I-40 is the\nDM34/DM35 grid boundary, and a spot I have operated from in the past. There\nis a county road that runs parallel to AZ-89 in that area, near a cement\nplant, and this was the spot I looked to operate from. I parked on the grid\nboundary, used my GPS receiver to confirm my location, and took pictures of\nmy setup. I had an XW-2F pass coming by about 45 minutes after I arrived,\nand worked that pass with my FT-817ND/SDRplay combination. Only one station\nwas heard, K0NW in California, but one contact was a nice start to my\nefforts at this location.\n\nThe pass I had targeted as the best for handing out contacts with these two\ngrids was an SO-50 pass around 7pm (0200 UTC). I was worried about how I\nwould be working this pass, after a quick and heavy rain storm passed\nthrough the area after the XW-2F pass. The rain quickly went away, and I\ndidn't have to put my radios in the car or under some sort of cover to\nshield them from the rain. Short of seeing lightning in the area, I wanted\nto work this pass, and I did. Twelve QSOs went in the log on this pass,\nwith stations from coast to coast and also in Canada.\n\nI had over an hour until the next pass I worked at DM34/DM35, a western\nSO-50 pass. Between passes, I updated my logbook with the QSOs from the\n0200 UTC SO-50 pass, and even uploaded them to Logbook of the World. I had\ngood coverage on the mobile phone network, so I took advantage of that and\nalso tried to quickly get at least a few of these QSOs turned into QSLs in\nLOTW.\n\nBy the time the 0340 UTC SO-50 pass came, there was virtually no light left\nin the western sky. Out with a flashlight, and back on the radio for the\nwest-coast pass. I worked 8 more stations, in Canada and mostly on the west\ncoast. I did work W5CBF in Louisiana, the furthest east I worked on this\nmostly western pass.\n\nDuring this SO-50 pass, it was mentioned that AO-73 was coming by in a few\nminutes (at 9pm, 0400 UTC). I had not planned to work that pass, but knew I\ncould set up quickly for it. Using my FT-817ND/SDRplay combination again, I\nworked two stations on AO-73 to wrap up my stay at the DM34/DM35 grid line.\n\nI knew there was an ISS pass coming by around 10pm (0500 UTC), and I had\nmentioned this on Twitter earlier in the day. I had one taker for a QSO\nattempt on that pass, and hoped to make it from the DM34/DM35 line over to\ngrid DM45 near Flagstaff in time for this pass. I made the 50-mile drive in\nabout 40 minutes to the first I-40 freeway exit inside DM45, only leaving\nme a couple of minutes to set up for the ISS pass. As I have been doing\nlately, I use only my TH-D72A HT and Elk antenna to work these passes using\nAPRS messages. I logged two QSOs, with KK6QMS in California and NP4JV in\nsouthern Arizona, to wrap up my operating for Saturday evening. I then\ndrove the last 20 miles to Flagstaff, checked into a motel, and called it a\nnight.\n\nSunday (12 June) morning came, and my plans for this day were simple - work\nsome passes from a couple of the national monuments around Flagstaff, then\nhead home. All of these monuments were in grid DM45, and I hoped I might be\nable to make one or two official NPOTA activations up in this area. I had\nplanned to start my day at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument\nnorth of Flagstaff. I went there, and found that this was a tough spot for\nsatellite operating. The volcano rises above the forest surrounding it, and\nthe only clearing that I could use to work satellites had no parking area.\nI'd have to hike about a mile to work from that clearing. I decided to move\ndown the road to the Wupatki National Monument next door, and try from\nthere.\n\nWupatki National Monument is away from the trees, on the edge of a large\nplateau covering much of this part of Arizona. Other than some hills to the\nwest, this was a great location to operate. The only drawback was that I\nhad no access to APRS or the mobile phone network in most of this national\nmonument, without driving back toward Flagstaff or the US-89 highway along\nthe western edge of this national monument, almost 20 miles west of where I\noperated from. The lack of APRS or mobile phone coverage was not going to\nstop me.\n\nThe first of the 5 passes I worked was a very low western SO-50 pass just\nbefore 7am (1400 UTC). I hoped someone would be on, to get my day started\nwith something for the log at Wupatki. Christy KB6LTY was up early like me,\nand was my only contact on this pass. One QSO is better than none, and I\nfelt like this was going to be a good morning. I had over an hour and a\nhalf until a pair of eastern passes, on AO-73 and AO-85. I worked only\nWN9Q on the AO-73 pass just before 9am (1600 UTC), followed by 7 other\nstations on the AO-85 pass a few minutes later. These QSOs brought me to 9\ndifferent stations worked from this national monument, and the next new\ncall sign in my log would make this an official NPOTA activation.\n\nBetween these two passes and the next pair of AO-73/AO-85 passes, I went to\nthe visitor center for the Wupatki monument to get my passport stamps for\nthis national monument. I did some sightseeing before returning to where I\nworked the early passes, to try the AO-73 and AO-85 passes between 10am and\n11am (1700-1800 UTC). The western AO-73 pass was quiet, with no QSOs made.\nThe AO-85 pass passed almost directly over my head, and this was better.\nSeven QSOs, five of which were new calls for my log at Wupatki, were made.\nThis completed my NPOTA activation, and I drove back to Flagstaff and the\nthird of the three national monuments around this area, Walnut Canyon\nNational Monument.\n\nWalnut Canyon National Monument is only a few miles east of Flagstaff along\nI-40 and old US-66, still in grid DM45 like the other two national\nmonuments. The national monument is in a forest, and a national forest\nsurrounds the monument. For the afternoon, I did not have any other FM\nsatellite passes available. I had passes on FO-29, AO-7, and the ISS.\nAfter visiting the visitor center to get more passport stamps to show I\nvisited Walnut Canyon, I parked along the roadway between the visitor\ncenter and I-40, which was within the national monument's boundaries, for\nthe 5 passes I attempted.\n\nFO-29 was first, around 12.30pm (1930 UTC). There was a lot of activity on\nthere, and I was able to work 5 different stations. This was a good start\nto the afternoon. The ISS pass that followed about 20 minutes after the\nFO-29 pass wasn't so good. I heard the station's packet digipeater well,\nbut made no QSOs.\n\nAround the 2-3pm hour (2100-2200 UTC), I had FO-29 and AO-7 passes. The\nFO-29 pass was quieter, and I worked KO6TZ and KI6WJ to add to my log. The\nAO-7 pass after that was completely quiet. No QSOs logged. Seeing that I\nwas now at 7 QSOs for my stop at Walnut Canyon, and hoping to get to the\nmagic number of 10 different stations worked for an official NPOTA\nactivation, I stuck around for one last AO-7 pass near 4.30pm (2330 UTC).\nThis was a complete bust. Although I heard a couple of stations on, AO-7\nappeared to make a switch from mode B to mode A. Since the monument\nwas closing at 5pm (0000 UTC), and I still had a drive of over 2 hours to\nget back home, I wrapped up my radio activities for the day and weekend.\nAlthough I was disappointed in not making my stop at Walnut Canyon an\nNPOTA activation, I was able to put that monument into a few logs.\n\nBetween the Prescott Hamfest and the post-hamfest road trip, I covered over\n500 miles in about a day and a half. This was fun, and I hope to be able to\nmake a return trip to Walnut Canyon to add that to my list of activations\nfor the NPOTA activity in 2016.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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