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        "address": "amsat-bb (a) wd9ewk.net",
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    "sender_name": "Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb]  Yes, my call was XE2/WD9EWK today...",
    "date": "2009-02-20T07:30:25Z",
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    "content": "\nHi all!\n\nDespite a lot of local QRM on the SO-50 downlink and the \nabsolute wall of stations in the first half of one AO-51 \npass (50W could not break through from here!), it was a \nvery nice day in Mexicali.  A good day to visit, with nice\nweather and (mostly) good conditions on several satellite\npasses.  After over 4 years since my last trip to Mexico, \nthis would be my first opportunity to work the satellites\nfrom there.  Please note that my callsign when in Mexico is\nXE2/WD9EWK, as the Mexicans follow the CEPT convention (also\nused by FCC in the US except for visiting Canadian hams)\nwith the prefix/indicator comes before the foreign ham's \ncall.  Please keep that in mind, if you are using Logbook of\nthe World and upload satellite contacts to that system - I \nhope to do the same for my satellite QSOs eventually, including\nthose made from Mexico. \n\nAfter getting my paperwork at the border (Mexican immigration)\nand at the communications ministry, I was itching to get on the \nair.  The ISS was passing by just after midday local time (2039\nUTC, to be precise), and I was able to work it from a spot in \nthe west end of Mexicali for a few QSOs.  I tried SO-50 from \nthere around 2250 UTC, but had lots of QRM from nearby TV\ntransmitters on towers very close to that area.  Ouch!  After\nthat pass, I went across the city to the \"Ciudad Deportiva\" \n(Sports City) complex, near the baseball stadium that is home to \na Mexican winter-league club and the recently-concluded Caribbean\nSeries tournament.  More open space, and not as close to those \npesky TV transmitters. \n\nThe AO-51 pass around 0010 UTC was crazy for the first 5 minutes.\nI could only break through a couple of times, and at one point\nit was nothing but stations calling for me - and I could not even\nget through to acknowledge any of them.  I apologize for that, as \neven 50W into my handheld antenna was no good against all that RF\nto my east.  I sincerely hope K5D is not greeted in the same manner\nif they show up on the FM satellites, especially since they will \nonly have 5W to work with.  After K7WIN cleared some space for me \nto come through the crowd (many thanks, Jeff!), I was able to log \ncontacts.  SO-50 right after that pass was a bit easier, with fewer stations and less QRM from those TV transmitters. \n\nThere was a really high AO-51 pass to the west around 0147 UTC,\nand I was on there from a park area in a neighborhood a few miles/km\nsouthwest of the baseball stadium.  This turned out to also serve\nas an impromptu demonstration for a local radio club, the \"Red\nDigital Noroeste\" (Northwest Digital Network).  Four club members\nwere there, and saw me work that western pass.  I was closer to\nthe TV transmitters, but they seemed to have less effect on the \nAO-51 435.300 MHz downlink compared to the SO-50 436.795 MHz \ndownlink (and zero effect on the ISS 145.800 MHz downlink).  This\nwas a great pass to show satellite operating to hams who had never\nseen or tried this part of the hobby.  Thanks to all the stations\nfrom central Mexico up through the western USA and Canada on the \npass!  Then a quick get-together with the local hams to talk about\nradio, satellites, and other stuff hams like to talk about almost\nanywhere before crossing the border back into the USA and calling \nit a night.  \n\nQuick stats... I worked 5 passes this afternoon/evening.  On those\npasses, I worked 6 stations through the ISS U/V cross-band repeater \non one pass, 12 on the 2 SO-50 passes, and 28 on the 2 AO-51 passes.\nI operated from 3 different locations in Mexicali, two in DM22go and \none in DM22gp (the baseball stadium), and all 3 were not too far \nsouth of the USA/Mexico border.  Alex XE2BSS/N2IX, who was with me \nduring the day, took some pictures and has started uploading them to:\n\nhttp://www.xe2bss.org/patmxl.html\n\nAlex is still adding pictures to this page, so consider it a \"work\nin progress\".  Check it again in a couple of days to see additional\npictures he posts there, and run the link through Babelfish or some\nother translation site if you can't read the Spanish-language text\non that page.  \n\nFor Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, I will continue to be in\ngrid DM22.  For those two days, I will have an AMSAT table at the \nYuma AZ hamfest, and will do satellite demonstrations on FM and SSB\nsatellites as I had originally planned.  I don't have firm plans for\nSunday yet, but hope to be on satellites once again from somewhere.\nMonday is still my travel day back to Phoenix, possibly including\nstops to work passes in other grids on my way home. \n\nGood night, and 73!\n\n\n\nPatrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK (now also XE2/WD9EWK) - Calexico, California\nhttp://www.wd9ewk.net/\n\n\n",
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