[ARRL-OK] Columbia Shuttle Commemorative Special Event

[Eddie Manley]

Our THANKS to all who participated in the recovery of the Columbia 
Shuttle.   Many Oklahoma Hams helped with this unprecedented tragedy.  
Our thoughts will be with all of you today -- please call  station  
W5NAC ....

REPRINT ** Shuttle Columbia commemorative special event set: The Nacogdoches
Amateur Radio Club (NARC) in Texas will mark the first anniversary of the
shuttle Columbia disaster February 1 with a daylong special event
operation from W5NAC. The club says the operation will honor the lost
Columbia astronauts, recovery workers and volunteers and agencies involved
in the debris recovery effort. More than 350 Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES), Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) and Deep
East Texas SKYWARN volunteers assisted with the shuttle recovery effort by
providing the other responding agencies with a unified radio communication
system as well as providing up-to-the-minute weather information. "The
amateur radio community really came together to serve during that time,"
commented NARC President Kent Tannery, KD5SHM. "That is what we train to
do." Tannery said the special event is the club's way of showing respect
to all of the volunteers and especially the Columbia crew members and
their families. Details are available on the NARC Web site
<http://www.andersoft.com/narc>.


On behalf of John Thomason, WB5SYT, and all of the Oklahoma ARRL
Eddie Manley KD5JGB
Ass't Section Manager