ARLA/CLUSTER: Planeados contactos via satelite no "Museum Ships Weekend" deste fim de semana.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

PORTUGUESE SHIPS PARTICIPATING FOR 2012

NAME                                                                      TYPE OF SHIP                                                                 LOCATION                              CALLSIGN
D. Fernando II e Glóira          Frigate                     Cacilhas Dockyard, Portugal  CS5DFG

Navio Hospital Gil Eannes<http://www.fundacaogileannes.pt/engine.php?cat=54>        Hospital Ship               Viana do Castelo, Portugal   CS1AAM

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Satellite operations planned for worldwide Museum Ships Weekend

The worldwide Museum Ships Weekend Event (MSWE) will be held for two days, June 2-3, 2012.

Last year 83 ships in 13 countries around the world participated in the event. Amateur radio operators make special event contacts from these museum ships on all amateur radio bands with most of the contacts taking place on the HF bands. In the past several years only two or three museum ships in North America have made satellite contacts during the event.

This year a number of Houston area AMSAT members, W5ACM, N5AFV and WC5WM, will participate with the Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
(BVARC) operating club station KK5W from Seawolf Park on Pelican Island in Galveston, Texas.

Seawolf Park is home to two Second World War vintage museum ships - the destroyer escort USS Stewart (DE-238) and the submarine USS Cavalla (SS-244). As a result, a contact with KK5W counts for two ships. Amateur radio operators who make contacts with 15 or more ships qualify for a handsome certificate.

The BVARC KK5W station plans to operate the afternoon passes of  AO-27 and FO-29 on Saturday June 2nd and hope other AMSAT members will be operating from other ships. This will be their fifth year participating in the MSWE and hope to make their first MSWE satellite contact with another museum ship this year.

If any AMSAT members are interested in this event they may visit the MSWE website: http://www.nj2bb.org/museum/index.html  to find out if any museum ships near them are participating.

Allen Mattis, N5AFV

Amsat website
http://www.amsat.org

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