[W3GV] Fwd: Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club to offer Special "Texas Navy Certificate" for Museum Ships Weekend 2012

[Douglas Sweet]

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From: AE5NO Ron <ae5no.ron at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:30 AM
Subject: Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club to offer Special "Texas Navy
Certificate" for Museum Ships Weekend 2012
To: AE5NO Ron <ae5no.ron at gmail.com>, K5HM <k5hm.ron at gmail.com>


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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****.
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To earn the Texas Navy Certificate, amateur stations must submit proof
of contact
(Log Extract) with all five ****Texas** **Museum**** ships to  QSL Manager,
KK5W along with a #10 SASE.  The address is in QRZ.com. Look for us around
28.360 21.360 18.160 14.260 7.260, 3.860, Plus or minus QRM.****

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. **
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For more information contact:****

Ron Litt, K5HM****

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73,****

Ron, K5HM****

k5hm.ron at gmail.com****

www.qrz.com/db/k5hm****

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