[SFDXA] Fw: Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club to offer Special "Texas Navy Certificate" for Museum Ships Weekend 2012

Norman Alexander npalex at bellsouth.net
Wed May 23 11:53:39 EDT 2012


The SFDXA web received this notice of an upcoming special event.  


Norm W4QN


  
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Houston, TX, May 23, 2012:  Houston area based Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club 
will celebrate its fifth year of participation in the annual Museum Ships 
Weekend Event, June 2-3, 2012 by offering a special commemorative certificate to 
amateur stations who contact all five Texas Based Museum ships during the 
event.  The five museum ships and their call signs include the Submarine USS 
Cavalla and Destroyer Escort USS Stewart (KK5W) in Galveston , Texas , The 
Battleship USS Texas (NA5DV), in  La Porte Texas , The Tall Ship Elissa (N5E) 
also in Galveston and the Aircraft Carrier USS Lexington (W5LEX) in Corpus   
Christi , Texas . 

To earn the Texas Navy Certificate, amateur stations must submit proof of 
contact with all five  Texas Museum  ships to  QSL Manager, KK5W along with a 
#10 SASE.  The address is in QRZ.com.
Museum Ships Weekend is an annual operating event sponsored worldwide by the 
Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station with more than 90 ships 
participating this year.  “We decided to put in a special Texas  twist to the 
event to commemorate our five years of taking part”, said Ron Litt, K5HM, one of 
the Event Coordinators.  

The Texas Navy Certificate is a cooperative effort between four different area 
clubs,  In addition to the  Brazos Valley  club, members of the Battleship Texas 
Amateur Radio Station, The Tidelands Amateur Radio Society and the South Texas 
Amateur Radio Club are participating as well.
 
For more information contact:
Ron Litt, K5HM
K5HM at arrl.net
 
 
 
73,
Ron, K5HM
k5hm.ron at gmail.com
www.qrz.com/db/k5hm


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