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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/Q2VGZE4UALIA2HJF4ZF7YAKHMEUCGP6L/?format=api",
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    "sender": {
        "address": "aa5uk (a) yahoo.com",
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    "sender_name": "Adrian Engele",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award",
    "date": "2013-08-25T18:05:28Z",
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    "content": "John,\n\nCongratulations on a job well done! \n\nWhat a great recap of your journey over these many years to complete this achievement. I know it took hundreds of hours, patience, more patience and lots of effort to get there. I am sure the journey to this achievement was a tremendously satisfying experience that only few people will ever know.\n\nHope you are doing well. I have not been much on the air due to family issues and other personal issues. \n\nBest regards,  Adrian AA5UK\n\n\n\n\n\n>________________________________\n> From: John Papay <[email protected]>\n>To: [email protected] \n>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:08 AM\n>Subject: [amsat-bb] The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award\n> \n>\n>Some of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware\n>that KA6SIP just gave me my last USA grid when he operated\n>from CN72 in Oregon.  And I thought it might be interesting\n>to look at the stats and how one manages to work and confirm\n>all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.\n>\n>Satellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them.\n>A grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is\n>off the air when that person goes away for whatever reason.\n>Interestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were\n>from those operating portable, not in the sense of using a radio\n>with batteries, but in the traditional sense of operating away from\n>their home station location.  Once you have experienced being on the\n>other end of a small pileup, you will want to do it again.  Just ask\n>W7LRD who tried it recently and is planning another trip.  Here is\n>a list of operators who exited the comfort of their home station and\n>put a grid on the air.  The callsign is followed by the number of new\n>grids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488.  Others may have\n>been worked but these totals represent the first time a new grid was\n>confirmed.\n>\n>ND9M 54\n>WD9EWK 27\n>WC7V 19\n>KD4ZGW 16\n>KB0RZD 10\n>KC0YBM 9\n>AA5CK 8\n>KA6SIP 8\n>KD8COQ 8\n>N5ZNL 7\n>W6GMT 7\n>N0JE 6\n>N2SPI 6\n>WA4NVM 5\n>KB5WIA 4\n>KB9BIT 4\n>KC0ZHF 4\n>KK0SD 4\n>AA5PK 3\n>K7CWQ 3\n>UT1FG 3\n>W6ZKH 3\n>WA6ARA 3\n>WA7HQD 3\n>WA8SME 3\n>AC0ZA 2\n>AJ9K 2\n>K0BAM 2\n>K7DRA 2\n>K7TRK 2\n>KA0RID 2\n>KC2LRC 2\n>KE7DOV 2\n>N3TL 2\n>N5AFV 2\n>\n>Jim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner.  Along with working\n>satellites he is also active on the county hunters nets.  Most of\n>his activity was between 2009 and 2011.  He was also active from a\n>cargo ship and gave out the very rare DM02.  Jim would travel for\n>months at a time and worked from a few hundred grids.  Most of that\n>operating was done on FM birds rather than linear ones.  It was\n>great to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51 were active.\n>HO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too.  54 new grids came\n>from Jim and he tops the list.\n>\n>Most everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK.  He has done a lot of traveling\n>both in the US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids.  He was very\n>active on the birds until recently.  He was an alternate on the AMSAT\n>Board of Directors and was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT\n>Area Coordinator program.  He virtually has no home station and most\n>all local contacts were made from a park near his apartment in Phoenix.\n>He knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner.\n>\n>Next on the list is Kerry WC7V.  He lives in sparsely populated Montana\n>and travels around by car and in his light aircraft.  He went to many\n>grids at my request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from\n>many rare locations.  He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids.\n>\n>Next on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m.  Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all\n>heard him on a satellite one day.  He didn't know his grid square but\n>he knew his milepost on the interstate.  From there we had the grid\n>square.  Rob went on to improve his mobile station and activated over\n>100 grid squares.  He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not\n>been active for some time.  He is fourth on the list with 16 grids.\n>\n>The next three are very special because they all became new operators\n>during the quest to work all 488.  Gail KB0RZD is very active today,\n>usually operating with a handie-talkie.  He went to 10 grids around him\n>and sent some photo qsl cards that were just outstanding.  KC0YBM operated\n>from his home location for a long time before I realized he was very\n>close to other grids.  Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested\n>he look into an AC inverter for the car.  He did just that and soon he\n>was operating portable from some new grids.  This speaks to the ham radio\n>culture that you find a way to operate with what you have.  Chris continues\n>to be active and hands out grids in the US and Canada.  And then there\n>is Ted, AA5CK. He has operated in grids around his home qth as well as\n>some rare ones in New Mexico.  He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where\n>I made my first grid expedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of\n>the White Dog Ranch on old Route 66.  I remember Ted's first sat contact.\n>\n>There are a few very special operators that can't be left out.  My son,\n>KD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad.  He knows how to operate\n>portable and gives out the grids when he travels.  Then there was\n>Richard N2SPI.  I asked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been\n>on and he took the challenge and drove to all of them, getting back to\n>his dad's place during the first snow of the season.  Dave KB5WIA made\n>quite the trip by backpacking into CM79.  It took two trips to transport\n>the equipment into the grid.  He has a video of it on youtube.\n>\n>I started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August\n>2008.  From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109.  In 2009 199\n>were worked.  2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44.  Only 4 new grids were worked\n>in 2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013.  Eight of those final 9 grids were\n>handed out by Tom KA6SIP.  He heard about the need and decided to make a\n>grid expedition to put them on the air.  He did 7 of them in one trip.\n>Then Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for\n>the first time.  That left CN72.  Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly\n>made plans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20 August\n>2013 at 2332z.  Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very\n>rare grid square but one that I already had.  Many others worked him there.\n>\n>There is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is\n>for six meters (FFMA).  The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will\n>implement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote\n>and it passes.  Hopefully that will happen soon.  Having that type of award\n>gives everyone something to work for.  It promotes grid expeditions and\n>interest in working through the satellites.  If we all contact our\n>ARRL Director, it might just happen.\n>\n>There may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites.\n>K6YK might be one of them.  I know there are several others who are\n>getting close.  It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate\n>every day.  It is something you can work towards over the years.\n>\n>I want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that ultimately\n>led to working all 488.  Many went out of their way to put on a grid.  Over\n>half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions!  If you haven't \n>experienced\n>operating away from home, please consider it.  With new operators showing up\n>on the birds every day, there is always a need for an uncommon grid.  And you\n>will have a lot of fun doing it!  Just ask anyone on my list.\n>\n>73,\n>John K8YSE\n>\n>_______________________________________________\n>Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n>Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n>\n>\n",
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