[TVARC] Year-Long NASA On The Air Event Kicks off on December 11

[Larry Peterson]

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Larry, N2AMW


Year-Long NASA On The Air Event Kicks off on December 11

The Amateur Radio clubs at National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA <http://www.nasa.gov/>) centers around the US have invited the 
Amateur Radio community to join the NASA On The Air (NOTA 
<http://www.nasaontheair.wordpress.com/>) special event. NOTA gets under 
way in December and continues through December 2018. In addition to 
being the agency's 60th anniversary, 2018 will mark 50 years since NASA 
orbited the first human around the moon, and 20 years since the first 
elements of the International Space Station (ISS) were launched into 
low-Earth orbit.

*The Marshall Space Flight Center's NN4SA is one of the NASA Center 
stations that will be active during NOTA.*

Starting on Monday, December 11, 2017, Amateur Radio club stations at 
various NASA centers and facilities will be on the air with special 
event operations to celebrate these monumental achievements, as well as 
current milestones. Some clubs will offer commemorative QSL cards, and a 
special certificate will be available indicating the number of NASA club 
stations worked on various bands and modes.

"We plan to have a web-based system for you to check your points total 
and download a printable certificate at the end of the event in December 
2018," the NASA announcement said. "Points will be awarded for each 
center worked on each band and mode (phone, CW, digital, and 'space' 
modes -- satellites, meteor scatter, EME, ISS APRS)." That would, of 
course, include contacts with any of the Amateur Radio stations on the ISS.

Key anniversaries during NOTA include the 45th anniversary of Apollo 17 
on December 11, 2017, which kicks off the event; NASA's founding on July 
29, 1958; the 20th anniversary of the ISS first element launch on 
November 20, 1998; the 20th anniversary of the ISS Node 1 Launch on 
December 4, 1998, and the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8 -- launched on 
December 21, 1968, and returned on December 27 -- marking the end of the 
event.

More information <http://www.nasaontheair.wordpress.com/> is on the NASA 
On The Air website. Participating Amateur Radio clubs and the NOTA event 
are independent of -- and not officially sponsored by -- NASA. Read more 
<http://www.arrl.org/news/year-long-nasa-on-the-air-event-kicks-off-on-december-11>. 
/-- Thanks to //Rob Suggs/ <mailto:kb5ez at yahoo.com>/, KB5EZ, NASA 
Marshall Space Flight Center Amateur Radio Club (NN4SA), and //Kevin 
Zari/ <mailto:kk4yel at gmail.com>/, KK4YEL, NASA Kennedy Space Center 
Amateur Radio Club (N1KSC)./
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