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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] AMSAT (and ARRL) at the IEEE International Microwave\tSymposium 2015 - report",
    "date": "2015-05-24T05:14:06Z",
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    "content": "Hi!\n\nOn Thursday, 21 May 2015, I represented AMSAT and the ARRL at the IEEE\nInternational Microwave Symposium 2015 that was at the Phoenix Convention\nCenter in downtown Phoenix. The ARRL had a booth in the symposium's\nUniversity Pavilion in the exhibit hall, manned by Ward Silver N0AX during\nthis week. Other hams helped Ward earlier in the week, and I was able to\ntake a day off and spend Thursday at the booth. Along with Ward, Hermann\nSchumacher DF2DR, a professor from the University of Ulm in Germany, was\nalso there with me. Although this was not an amateur radio event, there were\nlots of hams from around the world in the exhibit hall, and many students -\nhigh school and university students. The high school students were from\ndifferent schools around the Phoenix area, and the university students were\nfrom universities in the USA and other countries.\n\nIn addition to talking about the ARRL and amateur radio generally, Thursday\nwas promoted at the ARRL booth as the satellite day, complete with on-air\ndemonstrations in the afternoon. I brought my satellite equipment. I brought\nsome AMSAT Getting Started with Amateur Satellites books, frequency guides,\nand Fox flyers to go with the ARRL literature. During the morning, I learned\nthat Hermann had worked AO-6 in the 1970s, but had moved away from satellite\noperating. He enjoys SOTA operating on HF, and I think he's looking to give\nthe satellites another try when he returns home.\n\nI had 3 demonstrations during the afternoon, starting with an SO-50 pass\njust after 1930 UTC (12.30pm local time). I was able to work Dave W0DHB in\nColorado from outside the convention center, and then listen to the remainder\nof the pass. Although I only logged one QSO, being able to hear the pileups\non SO-50 impressed the crowd.\n\nThe FO-29 pass around 2124 UTC was the most fruitful pass of the day. Not\nonly was it busy, I had my largest crowd of the 3 demonstrations. We walked\nacross the street from the convention center to a pedestrian bridge over\nWashington Street, and had a good view of the sky from over the street. I\nused one FT-817ND and my Elk log periodic antenna, and this was the first\ntime I had worked FO-29 half-duplex. I have heard others do this, and I\nremember reading an AMSAT Journal article in 2005 by Drew KO4MA detailing\nhow to do this. It worked! I logged 6 QSOs with stations across the\ncontinental USA, and the crowd enjoyed hearing the locations of those\nstations. Thanks to K8YSE, AA5PK, N8HM, K0MDJ, KE4KOL, and N5AFV for calling\nand being a part of this demonstration! This was a great way to show off the\ncoverage of our satellites, and how they could be used with a very simple\nstation like my FT-817ND and Elk antenna.\n\nIn the crowd for this FO-29 pass were a pair of university students from\nTurkey, who are working on CubeSats at their university. They were not\nfamiliar with amateur radio, and I have since e-mailed them information\nabout amateur radio, amateur radio organizations in Turkey, and more\ninformation about AMSAT. I had taken a couple of pictures of them, and I\nalso included the pictures with my e-mail.\n\nThe later FO-29 pass, around 2310 UTC, yielded only one QSO, with Wyatt\nAC0RA. I was standing on the same pedestrian bridge outside the convention\ncenter, pointing my antenna to the west over downtown Phoenix on a 40-degree\npass.\n\nFor those keeping score, or logs, this symposium was in grid DM33xk. I have\nuploaded my QSOs to Logbook of the World, and a few have turned into QSLs. I\nwill also send special QSL cards to everyone I worked during these satellite\ndemonstrations.\n\nHermann DF2DR assembled a short video that includes parts of the first two\ndemonstrations I gave, and some photos from the symposium. You can see this\nvideo at:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYzzgkPrmuw\n\nThis symposium is a great example of a non-ham event where an amateur radio\npresence can reach many who have never heard of the hobby. Simply hanging a\nposter, or laying out flyers, with references to web sites would not have\nhad the same effect as a booth with hams ready and able to talk about the\nhobby in general, and our satellites specifically. Thanks to Ward and Sean\nKutzko KX9X at the ARRL for inviting me to be a part of the ARRL's booth at\nthe symposium.\n\n73!\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\nTwitter: @WD9EWK\n",
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