We have to create a "Hardest Workin' AMSAT Member" award, and give the first one to Patrick. When I perform my demos, he's ALWAYS out there. When he slides into his car, he is ALWAYS stopping alongside a highway to work a satellite. (Did you see the video he posted yesterday? He is LITERALLY stopped alongside a highway just to work a bird for our benefit.)
I have seen him in action at a hamfest in Arizona ... I hope some of his energy and enthusiasm rubs off on us all.
I am working on my PACIFICON presentation for this weekend in Sam Ramon, CA. Tentative passes to work while there are ...
Friday, October 15 AO-51 4:56PM Pacific Daylight / 11:56 GMT
Saturday, October 16 SO-50 9:12AM Pacific Daylight / 16:12 GMT
AO-51 4:17PM Pacific Daylight / 2317 GMT
Clint, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com 909-241-7666
Clint,
Well said,Clint, Patrick, WD9EWK and you are also very knowledgeable and approachable, enough said I used up all my syllables for the day!
73- Pete WB2OQQ
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK - Hardest Workin' AMSATter
We have to create a "Hardest Workin' AMSAT Member" award, and give the first one to Patrick. When I perform my demos, he's ALWAYS out there. When he slides into his car, he is ALWAYS stopping alongside a highway to work a satellite. (Did you see the video he posted yesterday? He is LITERALLY stopped alongside a highway just to work a bird for our benefit.)
I have seen him in action at a hamfest in Arizona ... I hope some of his energy and enthusiasm rubs off on us all.
At the Symposium this past weekend many people were recognized for their efforts and achievements for the prior year; I think the Journal will list them all in due time. Germane to this thread--both Patrick WD9EWK and John K8YSE were appropriately recognized for their incredible effectiveness with making contacts and promoting our niche of the hobby.
Way to go, guys! The contacts these two alone have chaulked up is nothing short of amazing...
73,
Mark N8MH
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Peter Portanova roic@optonline.net wrote:
Clint,
Well said,Clint, Patrick, WD9EWK and you are also very knowledgeable and approachable, enough said I used up all my syllables for the day!
73- Pete WB2OQQ
Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK - Hardest Workin' AMSATter
We have to create a "Hardest Workin' AMSAT Member" award, and give the first one to Patrick. When I perform my demos, he's ALWAYS out there. When he slides into his car, he is ALWAYS stopping alongside a highway to work a satellite. (Did you see the video he posted yesterday? He is LITERALLY stopped alongside a highway just to work a bird for our benefit.)
I have seen him in action at a hamfest in Arizona ... I hope some of his energy and enthusiasm rubs off on us all.
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Clint mentioned ...
... I have seen him in action at a hamfest in Arizona ... I hope some of his energy and enthusiasm rubs off on us all.
Yeah, I have to agree! You AMSAT folks out there need to watch this dude in action. His set up, his technique, tuning the radio ... the works ... teach you something just watching him. Patrick's enthusiasm and operating skill makes ya want to run out and grab your satellite gear and operate too.
Good luck to Clint this weekend too ... working at one of the big ones.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal
Clint,
I couldn't agree more. Add to all you and the others have said, Patrick is a great Elmer. I first met him at WestFest in Glendale back in January and his demo convinced me that I wanted to work the birds. He's been a great help to me as I learn the ropes of working satellites. He always has the time to answer my questions (and anticipate a few as well.
He's gonna be blushing when he get back home......:)
BTW, you're a pretty strong voice as well.
73
Clear Skies
Rick Tejera Editor SACnews, Public Outreach Coordinator Saguaro Astronomy Club Phoenix, Arizona www.saguaroastro.org saguaroastro@cox.net K7TEJ
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Clint Bradford Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:27 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] WD9EWK - Hardest Workin' AMSATter
We have to create a "Hardest Workin' AMSAT Member" award, and give the first one to Patrick. When I perform my demos, he's ALWAYS out there. When he slides into his car, he is ALWAYS stopping alongside a highway to work a satellite. (Did you see the video he posted yesterday? He is LITERALLY stopped alongside a highway just to work a bird for our benefit.)
I have seen him in action at a hamfest in Arizona ... I hope some of his energy and enthusiasm rubs off on us all.
I am working on my PACIFICON presentation for this weekend in Sam Ramon, CA. Tentative passes to work while there are ...
Friday, October 15 AO-51 4:56PM Pacific Daylight / 11:56 GMT
Saturday, October 16 SO-50 9:12AM Pacific Daylight / 16:12 GMT
AO-51 4:17PM Pacific Daylight / 2317 GMT
Clint, K6LCS http://www.work-sat.com 909-241-7666 _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
Hi Clint!
When he slides into his car, he is ALWAYS stopping alongside a highway to work a satellite. (Did you see the video he posted yesterday? He is LITERALLY stopped alongside a highway just to work a bird for our benefit.)
For the pass shown in the video from Saturday, I was out in the Holiday Inn parking lot near the end of the lunch break working that pass. Adrian AA5UK and another ham were also out there. Adrian was planning to listen to the pass and maybe work some stations, then decided to wander over to my setup. He had the thought to roll the video about halfway through the pass, something I didn't think of at the time (I didn't consider this a "demonstration", even though I had an external speaker hooked up to my radio once I saw someone standing near me to watch what I was doing.
As for stopping along the highway to work a bird, you heard me do that Sunday evening when we had our contact on AO-51. I found a spot on the EN40tx/EN41ta grid boundary north of Galesburg IL, along a county road surrounded by farmland, and had a good view to the west for that 6-degree maximum pass. I also worked AO-7 and FO-29 after AO-51 went away Sunday evening, and a couple of early morning AO-51 passes before making my drive back to O'Hare for the flight home. I will scribble more about the post-Symposium road trip later.
Hope to hear you next Saturday, when I'm at a hamfest in Tucson that morning. More on that in a separate message. Now, back to getting caught up on the paperwork and e-mails that accumulated from being out of the office for a few days.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/
P.S.: Thanks to all for the kind words in this thread and others posted in the past couple of days. I'm not the only one that works hard on behalf of AMSAT, so let's not forget the others. As mentioned earlier, a bunch of people were recognized at the Symposium for their hard work on behalf of this organization.
participants (6)
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Clint Bradford -
JoAnne Maenpaa -
Mark L. Hammond -
Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) -
Peter Portanova -
Rick Tejera