[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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