[QCWA] QCWA Chapter 91's website updated - Bob Zimmerman speaks on Manned Space Exploration

[Richard Rucker]

Our web site was updated this morning.  Please point your browser to:

               http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91.html


New Photo Album added
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A new photo album appears here:

         http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum72.html

The first station featured is that of Denny Avers, W3DRY...   If you  
are a Member or Friend of Chapter 91, please send digitized photos of  
good quality showing your current station(s) to DIck Rucker at  
rrucker at mac.com.


Under Scheduled Events:
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Dates with the programs scheduled so far for 2006 have been posted.


Under Recent Events:
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December 10, 2005: Holiday Luncheon: Bob Zimmerman, KB3IWD, speaks on  
the Early Manned Space Flights
"Our annual Holiday Luncheon was held at the Marco Polo Restaurant in  
Vienna, VA...

"QCWA President John Johnston, W3BE, was then invited up front to  
present...

             QCWA's Presidential Honors Award to Diane Zimmerman, AA3OF

             QCWA's Meritorious Award in behalf of Chapter 91 to Len  
Hook, KG6ZR

"With a nod to a photo of American astronaut Mike Fink talking to  
Earthlings from space via amateur radio from the International Space  
Station (ISS), Bob Zimmerman said that amateur radio communications  
can provide an important link between those aloft and those who  
remain on Earth...

"Bob then gave us a pictorial tour, with fascinating human-interest  
stories along the way, of several of the more significant Russian  
space stations in the Salyut series and of the early Soyuz  
spacecraft, manned and unmanned, that visited them between 1974 &  
1985...

"Bob's remarks made it clear that the United States has followed, not  
led, the Russians with one exception: SkyLab (1973-79).
He called it the one "glorious forgotten triumph" of NASA's manned- 
space program...

"Some lessons learned from these early missions..."


Under Archived Events:
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October 15, 2005: Tour of Fairfax County's Alternate Emergency  
Operations Center (AEOC)

     http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/Oct-Dec_2005_events.html


Under Photo Albums & Downloadable Files:
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Photos from our 2005 Holiday Luncheon:

      http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum73.html


Dick Rucker, KM4ML
Secretary
QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91