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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Prescott Hamfest on 11 June - report",
    "date": "2016-06-21T14:24:38Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nI'm a little tardy in posting this report, but better late than never...\n\nBack on 11 June, I had an AMSAT booth at the Prescott Hamfest, on the\nEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University campus in Prescott. There have been\nhamfests in and around Prescott over the years, but this was the first\ntime attending a hamfest at Embry-Riddle. In fact, I had never been on\nthe campus until this morning. The university's Eagle Amateur Radio Club\nwas the co-sponsor of the event, along with the Yavapai Amateur Radio Club.\nThe hamfest actually started the day before at noon, but I was not able to\nmake it up there for that day. The Saturday portion of the hamfest was\nscheduled to run from 8am (1500 UTC) until 5pm (0000 UTC). Most had packed\nup and left before 5pm, but it was still a good day.\n\nThe university's Student Union building was the site of the AMSAT booth.\nNice, air-conditioned, and with electricity to power one of my tablets. I\nalternated between running SatPC32, HDSDR with my SDRplay receiver for\ngeneral listening, and ADS-B software with the SDRplay to watch the planes\nflying around northern Arizona. SDR has been a popular topic whenever I\nhave one of my receivers on display, or when I use an SDR receiver during a\ndemonstration. This was no exception. It was too bright, and a little too\nwarm, to run the SDR receiver and tablet outside for my demonstrations.\nHaving that set up at my booth was more than sufficient to start\nconversations about that and extending into satellite operating. Having\ncopies of the new 2016 edition of the AMSAT \"Getting Started with Amateur\nSatellites\" book on hand was big. In the past, I'd still have copies of the\nprevious edition of this book for hamfests I visited in June. Thanks to\nSteve Belter N9IP, I received a couple of boxes with these new books, and\nthey were popular at the hamfest.\n\nDuring the day, I had demonstrations on 5 different passes. In the morning,\nI worked an AO-85 and an FO-29 pass from outside the building. The AO-85\npass was a nice cross-country pass, with stations heard from coast to\ncoast. I used my Icom IC-2730A mobile radio and Elk log periodic to make a\nfew contacts. Some Embry-Riddle students were watching me work this pass,\nwhich was a nice bonus. In the late morning and mid-afternoon, a couple of\nFO-29 passes came by. I used one of my FT-817s with the Elk, working\nhalf-duplex, to show that it really doesn't take a lot to get on this SSB\nsatellite. I made a few contacts on each of those passes. And there were a\npair of ISS passes that led to a couple of contacts, including one with\nXE3ISS in Cancun at a distance of just over 2900km - a personal best for an\nISS QSO, packet or voice. I used only my Kenwood TH-D72A HT and Elk log\nperiodic to make the ISS packet QSOs via APRS messages. No computer or\ntablet was needed, and I have relearned the fine art of quickly tapping\nmessages out on a DTMF keypad, as was done in the past with the non-smart\nmobile phones. :-)\n\nAt the end of the hamfest, the organizers said they felt it was a success,\nand are hoping the 2017 Prescott Hamfest could be held at Embry-Riddle.\nAMSAT thanks both the Eagle Amateur Radio Club at Embry-Riddle and the\nYavapai Amateur Radio Club for providing a booth and helping promote the\nsatellite demonstrations throughout the day.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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