[ARES-SE] FW: ARISS Presentation

[gfletcher5 at att.net]

FYI

Not exactly ARES but may be of interest to some of you.

--George Fletcher, AD5CQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth R. Goodwin, Jr. [mailto:krgoodwin at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:00 PM
To: w5rrr at comcast.net
Cc: clavus83627 at mypacks.net
Subject: ARISS Presentation

One of the JSC Amateur Radio Club members, Ken Ransom N5VHO will be 
speaking this Saturday (August
9th) at the Houston Red Cross building (Hwy 59 and Kirby).

http://www.w5acm.net/QRP_8809.html

Ken works at NASA coordinating the ham radio contacts between the 
Astronauts on board
the Space Station and schools around the world. He will be sharing 
all the latest
information on the Space Station and astronaut ham radio activities 
and plans for
the future.

The meeting is 9am on Saturday August 9th in the Red Cross building 
on the Southwest
Freeway and Kirby. The address is below.

Please pass this on to anyone you think will be interested.

Thanks,

Craig Davidson
wd5bdx


Check out Ken's bio at http://www.w5rrr.org/hqrp.html

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The talk in frequencies are 146.7 Mhz and 147.1 MHz (114.8 pl)

Below is the address and maps to find the Houston Red Cross building:

Greater Houston
Area Red Cross
2700 Southwest Freeway
Houston, TX 77098

Here is a link from google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2700+southwest+freeway,+hou
ston,+texas&sll=29.732707,-95.420637&sspn=0.008739,0.013733&ie=UTF8&ll=29.73
2707,-95.420637&spn=0.008739,0.013733&z=16&iwloc=addr

Here is a link for mapquest:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=
2700%20Sw%20Fwy&city=Houston&state=TX&zipcode=77098%2d4607&country=US&locati
on=Dc6HwtzpmI5UIeTIW34xDmWzFbdd%2bKCbUdzJg1uAfnHU%2bRpHp2hWoQQ9AUEn4tJ4t504k
gWLO9s9T7oiiYahAnR4v9AT2Lrd7nb5DahdxOc5cp87Vl8s%2bjMc6GtlBYQbW%2fEbl1jxruU%3
d&ambiguity=1