Marshall Space Flight Center Amateur Radio Club

06/08/2022

We went to space center Houston yesterday. The figure above was "floating" In a Skylab mockup. This astronaut has been to WA4NZD during a student amateur radio television contact when Charles Bolden was on the flight. Years later Mr. Bolden became head of NASA. I'r shared pictures of the student event with Mr. Bolden during his time at HQ.

01/25/2020

Winter Field Day from the VBAS observatory on Monte Sano.

07/19/2019

Show your love for Icom radios with theses included Icom goodies. NOTE: Certain shirt sizes have a limited quantity and if we run out of your size, we reserve the right to substitute for an item of equal or greater value.

11/20/2018

The Hunstville ARC, K4BFT, is in the top 50

11/16/2018

Look who made to top 50 list for NOTA!

11/15/2018

K4BFT is the Huntsville ARC here where NN4SA is located.

11/01/2018

Remember, the year long NOTA event will end with the special event honoring the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8 on December 21st-27th, 2018.

08/18/2018

We'll be in full force at the Huntsville, AL hamfest and North AL. DX Club banquet today.

07/31/2018

The Meatball

Did you know? Our insignia was designed in 1959 and is filled with symbolism:

🔵 The sphere represents a planet
✨ The stars represent space
✈️ The v-shaped vector represents aeronautics
🚀 The circular orbit represents space travel

Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/symbols-of-nasa.html

07/25/2018

Picnic this weekend to celebrate NASA's 60th anniversary. We'll fire up the grill and the HF bands. NN4SA.

07/05/2018

Today my newly licensed Wife, KN4MUC, made several contacts with 13 Colony stations, She looked up the QSL information and I had to explain the list of alphabet of acronyms to her. Luckily I didn't have to explain IRCs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon
But I did anyway.

An international reply coupon (IRC) is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter of up to twenty grams sent to another Universal Postal Union (UPU) member country. IRCs are accepted by all UPU member cou...