[GCARC] Apollo 11 moon landing celebration

[djgrath1]

From: Sheldon Parker [mailto:k2men at comcast.net] 
Sent: July 20, 2019 07:00
To: djgrath1
Subject: FW: Apollo 11 moon landing celebration

 

Jeff,

 

Art Strong sent me the below email concerning the Huntsville ARC Apollo 11 special event station (3rd para).  It will be operating this weekend both days to celebrate the moon landing anniversary as K4CJH https://whnt.com/2019/07/19/huntsville-ham-radio-club-celebrating-apollo-anniversary-at-space-and-rocket-center/ .  Is this something the club would like to know about?  I happened to work a Canadian station yesterday celebrating Apollo.  I don’t know how to operate the reflector.

 

Sheldon

 

From: Arthur Strong <ka0ws at outlook.com> 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 11:41 PM
To: k2men at comcast.net
Subject: Apollo 11 moon landing celebration

 

Sheldon,

Before I go into the celebration I wanted to let you know that you are coming down here in Falkville, Al, on FT8, like gangbusters.   I've seen your signal show up on several occasions, on FT8, but you were chasing some stations so I didn't try to contact you.   

Donna and I are currently located in Falkville, Alabama which is about 35 miles West Southwest of Huntsville, Al.   Huntsville is in big celebration of the moon landing as the vast majority of the space program was developed here.  The Saturn 5 was developed and built in the Redstone Arsenal, which is still in operation bigtime, and it was test fired out at the Marshall Space Flight Center.    Despite our 5 months here, we haven't taken the bus tour out to the Space Flight Center but we have been to the Space and Rocket center and took lots of pictures..    We will take the bus tour when we get back here the end of next month.

Besides telling you about your signals here I have some info that you may want to pass along to the GCARC members via email system that I have no idea how to work.    The Huntsville Amateur Radio Club has a Special Event Station operating from 10am to 10 pm, your time, at the Rocket and Space Flight Museum in Huntsville, on route 565, on Saturday and Sunday of this weekend.  From what I saw on TV they are running SSB and CW and they were on 20 and 40 meters during the TV blurb.   I plan on getting out there either Saturday or Sunday and visit the station.  I also plan on taking pix which I will forward to Jeff Garth for the newsletter.   Some of the club members may be interested in operating  the station.. No idea what they have for QSL cards but I'm sure they would be quite nice.

We also are planning a trip to Houston, TX so I can visit the Johnson Space Flight Center.  It has been completely rebuilt to the way it was during the Apollo 11 flight.  Gene Krantz was the Flight Director during the flight and he was able to get donors and others to get the place rebuilt to its glory days.

The Apollo 11 flight was important to me because when man stepped on the moon on July 20th, 1969, that was my 21st birthday.  You know how important that is to a guy.

On a side note, we will be at the Four Seasons Campground in Pilesgrove, NJ from Aug. 8th to the 24th.  We have all our household stuff in a storage unit in Blackwood and we are having it shipped down here to a storage unit in Cullman.  So we'll be around and on the club repeater.

Take care,

Art Strong,  KA0WS