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    "sender_name": "Harvey N. Vordenbaum",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award",
    "date": "2013-08-23T16:18:15Z",
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    "content": "Is there an AMSAT Award for this?\nk5hv\n\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On\nBehalf Of John Papay\nSent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:08 AM\nTo: [email protected]\nSubject: [amsat-bb] The USA Lower 48 Worked all 488 Grids non-Award\n\nSome of the active grid chasers on the birds are aware that KA6SIP just gave\nme my last USA grid when he operated from CN72 in Oregon.  And I thought it\nmight be interesting to look at the stats and how one manages to work and\nconfirm all 488 USA lower 48 States grids.\n\nSatellite operators come and go and grids come and go with them.\nA grid might have a very active operator in it and then it is off the air\nwhen that person goes away for whatever reason.\nInterestingly, about half of the 488 grids that were worked were from those\noperating portable, not in the sense of using a radio with batteries, but in\nthe traditional sense of operating away from their home station location.\nOnce you have experienced being on the other end of a small pileup, you will\nwant to do it again.  Just ask W7LRD who tried it recently and is planning\nanother trip.  Here is a list of operators who exited the comfort of their\nhome station and put a grid on the air.  The callsign is followed by the\nnumber of new grids they gave me towards the goal of working all 488.\nOthers may have been worked but these totals represent the first time a new\ngrid was confirmed.\n\nND9M 54\nWD9EWK 27\nWC7V 19\nKD4ZGW 16\nKB0RZD 10\nKC0YBM 9\nAA5CK 8\nKA6SIP 8\nKD8COQ 8\nN5ZNL 7\nW6GMT 7\nN0JE 6\nN2SPI 6\nWA4NVM 5\nKB5WIA 4\nKB9BIT 4\nKC0ZHF 4\nKK0SD 4\nAA5PK 3\nK7CWQ 3\nUT1FG 3\nW6ZKH 3\nWA6ARA 3\nWA7HQD 3\nWA8SME 3\nAC0ZA 2\nAJ9K 2\nK0BAM 2\nK7DRA 2\nK7TRK 2\nKA0RID 2\nKC2LRC 2\nKE7DOV 2\nN3TL 2\nN5AFV 2\n\nJim, ND9M, is a seasoned grid expeditioner.  Along with working satellites\nhe is also active on the county hunters nets.  Most of his activity was\nbetween 2009 and 2011.  He was also active from a cargo ship and gave out\nthe very rare DM02.  Jim would travel for months at a time and worked from a\nfew hundred grids.  Most of that operating was done on FM birds rather than\nlinear ones.  It was great to have many daily fm passes when AO-27 and AO-51\nwere active.\nHO-68 and SO-67 were in the mix for a while too.  54 new grids came from Jim\nand he tops the list.\n\nMost everyone knows Patrick WD9EWK.  He has done a lot of traveling both in\nthe US and Canada and he gave me 27 new grids.  He was very active on the\nbirds until recently.  He was an alternate on the AMSAT Board of Directors\nand was recently appointed to oversee the AMSAT Area Coordinator program.\nHe virtually has no home station and most all local contacts were made from\na park near his apartment in Phoenix.\nHe knows how to do it and he is a meticulous planner.\n\nNext on the list is Kerry WC7V.  He lives in sparsely populated Montana and\ntravels around by car and in his light aircraft.  He went to many grids at\nmy request and made a lot of us very happy by operating from many rare\nlocations.  He is in slot number 3 with 19 grids.\n\nNext on the list is Rob KD4ZGW/m.  Rob drove an 18 wheeler and we all heard\nhim on a satellite one day.  He didn't know his grid square but he knew his\nmilepost on the interstate.  From there we had the grid square.  Rob went on\nto improve his mobile station and activated over\n100 grid squares.  He is no longer driving on long hauls and has not been\nactive for some time.  He is fourth on the list with 16 grids.\n\nThe next three are very special because they all became new operators during\nthe quest to work all 488.  Gail KB0RZD is very active today, usually\noperating with a handie-talkie.  He went to 10 grids around him and sent\nsome photo qsl cards that were just outstanding.  KC0YBM operated from his\nhome location for a long time before I realized he was very close to other\ngrids.  Chris didn't have portable equipment so I suggested he look into an\nAC inverter for the car.  He did just that and soon he was operating\nportable from some new grids.  This speaks to the ham radio culture that you\nfind a way to operate with what you have.  Chris continues to be active and\nhands out grids in the US and Canada.  And then there is Ted, AA5CK. He has\noperated in grids around his home qth as well as some rare ones in New\nMexico.  He lives in EM04, not far from EM05 where I made my first grid\nexpedition contact with KD8CAO from EM05 in front of the White Dog Ranch on\nold Route 66.  I remember Ted's first sat contact.\n\nThere are a few very special operators that can't be left out.  My son,\nKD8CAO, provided 8 new grids for his dad.  He knows how to operate portable\nand gives out the grids when he travels.  Then there was Richard N2SPI.  I\nasked him about some grids in Maine that hadn't been on and he took the\nchallenge and drove to all of them, getting back to his dad's place during\nthe first snow of the season.  Dave KB5WIA made quite the trip by\nbackpacking into CM79.  It took two trips to transport the equipment into\nthe grid.  He has a video of it on youtube.\n\nI started with satellites in June 2006 and only had 47 USA grids by August\n2008.  From August 2008 till Jan 2009 I worked another 109.  In 2009 199\nwere worked.  2010 was 76 and 2011 was 44.  Only 4 new grids were worked in\n2012 and 9 were snagged in 2013.  Eight of those final 9 grids were handed\nout by Tom KA6SIP.  He heard about the need and decided to make a grid\nexpedition to put them on the air.  He did 7 of them in one trip.\nThen Bob W7LRD went to the beach in CN77, operating away from home for the\nfirst time.  That left CN72.  Tom just got back from Hawaii and quickly made\nplans to camp out in CN72 and gave me the final grid on AO-7B, 20 August\n2013 at 2332z.  Then he put CN71 on the air on 22-23August, also a very rare\ngrid square but one that I already had.  Many others worked him there.\n\nThere is no award for working all 488 grids on satellites as there is for\nsix meters (FFMA).  The ARRL awards committee has looked at it and will\nimplement it if someone on the Board of Directors brings it up for a vote\nand it passes.  Hopefully that will happen soon.  Having that type of award\ngives everyone something to work for.  It promotes grid expeditions and\ninterest in working through the satellites.  If we all contact our ARRL\nDirector, it might just happen.\n\nThere may be others who have already worked all 488 grids on satellites.\nK6YK might be one of them.  I know there are several others who are getting\nclose.  It is not any easy thing to accomplish even if you operate every\nday.  It is something you can work towards over the years.\n\nI want to thank everyone that made satellite contacts with me that\nultimately led to working all 488.  Many went out of their way to put on a\ngrid.  Over half of the grids worked were from grid expeditions!  If you\nhaven't experienced operating away from home, please consider it.  With new\noperators showing up on the birds every day, there is always a need for an\nuncommon grid.  And you will have a lot of fun doing it!  Just ask anyone on\nmy list.\n\n73,\nJohn K8YSE\n\n_______________________________________________\nSent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\nNot an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\nSubscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n\n",
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