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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/RYQM67KXOKKUICRV57CHOXI2KGEECK2Y/?format=api",
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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] WD9EWK satellite activity on Saturday (22 October)",
    "date": "2011-10-24T00:26:48Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nAnother Saturday not in the summertime, another Arizona hamfest, and \nanother road trip to different parts of the state.  Yesterday was a \nfun day, with perfect weather for the Old Pueblo Radio Club's hamfest \nin Tucson yesterday morning, followed by a few hours in southeastern \nArizona working satellites from the DM51bx/DM52ba grid boundary, and a \ndrive out to a different spot in the rarely-heard grid DM53 in eastern \nArizona.\n\nSaturday morning at the hamfest was crowded.  More people seemed to \nbe out this year than at last year's hamfest.  The parking lot used\nfor the hamfest was full, if that's any gauge (it hasn't been, for\nthe past few years since I started going to this hamfest).  For the\nfirst time since I've been representing AMSAT at hamfests in almost\n5 years, all of my satellite demonstrations were done on the SSB\nbirds. \n\nWith AO-51's pass times gradually moving earlier and earlier as the\nyears have passed, and SO-50 not passing by in the morning except\nfor one pass that overlapped an AO-7 pass, I made good use of both\nAO-7 and VO-52.  AO-7 was in mode B, and that - along with the \nreliable VO-52 - made great impressions on the people watching.  \nThanks to the stations that called and worked me during the morning,\nand I apologize if I missed some of you on those passes.  \n\nBy 11am (1800 UTC), the hamfest was almost vacant.  I packed up my\nstuff, stopped for a quick lunch down the street from the hamfest, \nthen it was off to the DM51bx/DM52ba grid boundary just over an \nhour away from Tucson.  I was able to get out there in time for the \nAO-27 pass around 2006 UTC, and have lots of time to spare.  Working \n5 passes (two each on AO-27 and AO-51, plus an AO-7 pass) while \nenjoying the Saturday afternoon in southeastern Arizona was enjoyable.  \nEven the time between passes after updating my logbook doing nothing \nmore than sitting back and listening to some music before the next \npass. \n\nAfter the last AO-51 pass around 2330 UTC, I had almost 2 1/2 hours\nbefore the SO-50 pass I planned to work at the DM52ax/DM53aa grid\nboundary.  As I was driving up toward DM53, I started poking around\non my sat-nav system and noticed that I might be able to help a \ncouple of other satellite operators work a very rare Arizona county\nvia satellite and still be in grid DM53.  \n\nGreenlee County, along Arizona's eastern border with New Mexico, is \nthe smallest in population (less than 8000).  Its county seat, \nClifton, has about half of that - and a big copper mine.  Most of\nthe town is hemmed in by mountains, but I was able to find a dirt\nroad off the main highway (US-191, the Coronado Trail - previously \nknown as US-666) in grid DM53ia that kept me up higher than most of \nClifton and have a better shot at working the two passes I planned \nfor - SO-50 at 0155 UTC, followed by VO-52 at 0220 UTC.\n\nOnce I heard SO-50, I was able to work stations from central Mexico\nand all across the USA in about 10 minutes.  Many were happy with the\nDM53 QSO, and a few got the one Arizona county that had eluded them\non the satellites.  VO-52 a few minutes after the SO-50 pass was also\ngood.  I'm still working on my log for those two passes, but I was \nable to work stations from start to finish on each pass.  A good way\nto wrap up the radio part of my quick road trip.\n\nAfter finishing up the radio operating, it was back in the truck for \na drive home of almost 4 hours including a fuel stop.  Including my \ndrive to Tucson on Friday evening in advance of the hamfest, this was \na 524-mile (843km) road trip and activity from 4 grids (hamfest was \nin grid DM42me, along with the DM5x grids activated after the hamfest).  \nI looked at my APRS track for the trip, and I am happy to see that \nmy entire trip was picked up by the APRS network out here.  Lots of \nmountaintop digipeaters, and many APRS gateways to feed the APRS RF\nnetwork into the Internet, here in Arizona.  \n\nFor those that missed out on working me in those grids, I will be back\nin Tucson for another hamfest in the spring (late March or early April,\ndate hasn't been determined yet) and a hamfest in Sierra Vista \n(southeast of Tucson) in May.  I take advantage of these events to \nvisit the grids in southeastern Arizona that are rarely heard on the\nsatellites, and I plan on doing it again for those two events next\nspring.  If there are any county hunters that would like to hear \nGreenlee County on the birds again, I might be able to plan another\nroad trip in that direction.  \n\nTime to finish updating my log from last night, and then printing up \nmore QSL cards....    and, yes, this was fun.  :-)  \n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n\nP.S.: The Arizona Worked All Counties award is available for those who\nmake contacts with all 15 Arizona counties.  Contacts via satellite \nare specifically permitted.  I have now been on the satellites from 14 \nof the 15 counties over the past few years, and Leo W7JPI is on from the \ncounty I have yet to operate from (Santa Cruz County).  Information \nabout this award is at: http://www.w7yrc.org/az-wac.htm\n\n\n",
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