[SixClub] Museum Ships Weekend Event

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Mark your calendars, Jun6 - 7, 2009 Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio 
Station will conduct an event involving amateur radio operators at over 
50 "Museum Ships", this will include both SSB & CW operations from in 
many cases on-board the 50 museum ships that may include operation of 
original ship radios over long wire antennas.

Details are at: <http://www.nj2bb.org/museums/index.html>

In Texas there will be the Battleship Texas, Submarine Cavalla, 
Destroyer Escort Stewart, Aircraft Carrier Lexington.

The Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club  www.bvarc.org  is sponsoring 
operation from Galveston Seawolf Park using long wire antennas aboard 
the USS Cavala and the Destroyer Escort USS Stewart on several bands & 
will include PSK31 from the radio room of the USS Cavalla.  Club call 
"KK5W" will be used from Galveston, operators will work 40, 20, 10 and 6 
meters from the site, as well as a few other frequencies. (See the 
listing of suggested frequencies at the Battleship New Jersey site.).

Documented contacts with call KK5W will count as 2 ships contacted, if 
15 or more ships are contacted, logs submitted with 15 different ships 
will get you a colorful "Marine Ships 2009" 8.5 x 11 certificate in 
addition to QSL cards.

www.nj2.org/museum/index.html

Howard Bingham
KE5APJ

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