Friends-

NASA is on the AIR this weekend! You may not be able to hear W5RRR on 20m (too close) but please do call in to the other NASA centers on CW, FT8 and SSB. We will open up 40m from 4 pm and also may be on SIMPLEX 145.52 (still being debated).

Can one of you from BVARC either post this on your LISTSERVER or I can if you give me permission?

Best

Jayant

KG5LJZ

Several of the NASA Center's ham radio clubs will be getting on the air for select milestones in space history this year. We're kicking it off with the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, FL on April 16, 1972 and splashed down in the South Pacific on April 27, 1972.

See https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo-16 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16 for more info on the Apollo 16 mission.

We'll likely do additional special events in the future for Apollo 17, the Artemis I launch, and something for the James Webb Space Telescope, but TBD for now...still being discussed amongst the clubs.

The Kennedy Space Center (N1KSC) will be on the air starting this weekend at 1400Z. Other centers are planning to be on the air starting next weekend (April 23rd) including the Johnson Space Center (W5RRR), Glenn Research Center (NA8SA), Marshall Space Flight Center (NN4SA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (W6VIO), Ames Research Center (NA6MF), Stennis Space Center (N5SSC), Armstrong Flight Research Center (NA6SA), and Goddard Space Flight Center (WA3NAN). I also plan to get on some satellite passes as W5RRR from the Johnson Space Center. Operations will wrap up on April 27th for this event.

As was done for previous NASA On The Air events, we'll have a Certificate that can be downloaded with custom stats for how many NASA Centers were worked.

More info at https://nasaontheair.wordpress.com/

We will try to post activations/frequencies to https://twitter.com/NASARadioClubs (@NASARadioClubs) but the DX Cluster is probably the best place to find us.

Anyway, appreciate it if you could spread the word.