This week the Johnson Space Center Club is on the air as part of the NASA on the Air (NOTA) year-long special event.

We are currently one of 12 NASA club stations participating in the event. Throughout the year, we will be continuously operating in celebration of a variety of significant NASA milestones.

For July, we will be operating to commemorate the 60th anniversary of President Dwight D Eisenhower's July 29th, 1958, signing of the Space Act which established the creation of NASA. During this week, the JSCARC will be heavily operating on 10/15/20/40/80 m bands and also satellites. A commemorative 1958 vacuum tube vintage station will be activated consisting of a Johnson Ranger/Courier and a Hammarlund HQ145C, courtesy of one of our members, K5RG. This station will be used to make CW, SSB, and AM QSOs. In addition, our other shack radios will sue SSB, FT8, FM, CW, and SSTV to make contacts on all bands. A special 60th Anniversary QSL card (designed by AB5SS) will be available with an SASE for contacts made.

A QSL card can be received only if you send an SASE to our address listed on our website (w5rrr.org), or QRZ.com.

There will be a special certificate issued for top stations that work modes and bands across the NOTA NASA centers. Each of the other NASA stations will be issuing their own special QSL cards as well. For more information on this and NOTA, see NASAontheAir.wordpress.com.

73, Keith WD9GET