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    "sender_name": "Sean K.",
    "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] Road trip to DM03/DM15/DM25/DM26/DM35 last weekend\t-\treport",
    "date": "2015-04-08T20:45:59Z",
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    "content": "Patrick -\nThanks so much for the DM15 QSO. It was my first QSO with California (state #41), and your LOTW QSL put me over the top for my Satellite VUCC. Appreciate the effort! Sean Kutzko\nAmateur Radio KX9X\n      From: Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) <[email protected]>\n To: \"[email protected]\" <[email protected]> \n Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 3:53 PM\n Subject: [amsat-bb] Road trip to DM03/DM15/DM25/DM26/DM35 last weekend - report\n   \nHi!\n\nAfter the presentation and demonstrations in Long Beach last Friday (3 April),\nI did not take the direct route back home to Arizona. I made a long detour,\nstopping in different locations to work satellites until I eventually returned\nhome on Sunday (5 April) afternoon. I have done day-trips to hamfests and\nother locations after those hamfests, but it had been a while since I did a\ndrive like this in the southwestern USA.\n\nWhen I left the Los Angeles area on Saturday (4 April) morning, I was planning\nto end up in Las Vegas later in the day. A simple drive - get over to the I-15\nfreeway near San Bernardino, then head north to Las Vegas. I wanted to stop in\neither grids DM14 or DM15 on the way to Las Vegas, which straddles the line\nbetween grids DM25 and DM26. DM15 has less activity than DM14, so I decided\nto skip DM14 and try to work DM15 in the afternoon.\n\nMy first stop in DM15 was northeast of Barstow, in the southwestern corner of\nthe grid. I was planning to try an FO-29 pass around 2045 UTC, which was a\nshallow pass out there. I heard stations, and heard myself, but was not able\nto make any QSOs from here. Back onto the I-15, and north I went to the small\ndesert town of Baker. This point is in the northeastern corner of DM15, and\na better FO-29 pass was coming around 2220 UTC. I had about 35-40 minutes to\nspare before the pass, which I used to scout a good location to park and work\nthe pass.\n\nOnce FO-29 came up from my southeast, I had a much easier time to hear myself\nand other stations. Once I started calling CQ, Dave KG5CCI called me first.\nAfter logging him, I went on to work 12 other stations over the next 15\nminutes. Several were looking to make a contact with DM15, and the subsequent\nQSL showing up in Logbook of the World, and I was happy to oblige. I worked\nstations from coast to coast during that pass. It was pushing 90F/32C out\nthere on Saturday, a warm day on the edge of the Mojave Desert.\n\nAfter that pass, I had about 75 minutes until an SO-50 pass at 0005 UTC. I\nneeded to drive just over 80 miles/130km from Baker to the spot I wanted to\noperate from in Las Vegas, sitting on the DM25/DM26 grid boundary. The traffic\nup to Baker was going slowly at times, but north of Baker I-15 was more like\na drag strip. I was able to make the drive to Las Vegas in 65 minutes, with\n10 minutes to spare before SO-50 appeared. I set up my station, took the\nobligatory photos to show my location on the DM25/DM26 grid boundary (I\ntweeted a photo of my GPS receiver from that spot), and then went on to work\n14 different stations on the first SO-50 pass. Later, I worked 5 more stations\non an SO-50 pass that favored the west coast.\n\nI saw an ISS pass was coming up from the southwest just after the sun went\nbehind the mountains at 0225 UTC. Using my TH-D72A HT, I completed one QSO\nusing APRS messages with N7NEV in the Phoenix area - a call I have worked\nvia the ISS a few times in the past few months, either from home or when I\nhave been on the road. After the pass, I looked on the ariss.net web site\nto see that two others were trying to work me after my LOS on that pass.\n\nAfter the ISS pass, I checked into my motel, then returned to the DM25/DM26\nboundary for one AO-73 pass. I worked 3 stations during that pass. Not a bad\neffort for 4 different passes in a few hours, after the drive up from Los\nAngeles.\n\nOn Sunday morning, I left Las Vegas - after a stop at the famous \"Welcome to\nLas Vegas\" sign and a drive up Las Vegas Boulevard. I drove to Kingman in\nnorthwestern Arizona, looking to work an AO-73 pass just after 1700 UTC from\nthe DM25/DM35 grid boundary north of I-40. I had a lot of time to spare before\nthis pass, with the bridge that now crosses the Colorado River south of\nHoover Dam cutting down the drive time a bit. I found the spot, one I have\nused in the past, and set up my station. After taking photos of my station\nand GPS receiver with my station, I went on to work 3 stations.\n\nBefore I left Kingman, I made additional stops for lunch and fuel, and then\nmade the 3-hour drive home. In total, I drove 1053 miles (almost 1700km) on\nthis road trip, and operated from 5 locations in 5 different grids. I used\nto do more of this, and with different operators coming on the satellites\nin recent times - it may be time to do some of the road trips I did in the\npast again.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n_______________________________________________\nSent via [email protected]. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available\nto all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed\nare solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA.\nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n\n  \n",
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