Johnson Space Center
Amateur Radio Club
Houston, Texas, USA

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Welcome to the Johnson Space Center Amateur Radio Club's (JSCARC) home page.  Thanks to the Houston Area League of PC Users (HAL-PC), a 10,000+ member PC club, for providing space for our website.   Please take a moment to browse their website and/or send them a note of thanks for their support to the JSCARC.

The JSCARC is located at NASA's Johnson Space Center, 25 miles southeast of downtown Houston, Texas.  The club membership is made up of NASA and Contractor employees based in and around the Johnson Space Center.  The club is very active in various aspects of the amateur radio hobby:   On-the-air ragchewing, DX'ing, Contesting, Satellites and Public Service.  The club also publishes a monthly newsletter, The Uplink.  The members frequently support the numerous public service activities conducted around the space center: fun runs, walk-a-thons, bicycle rides, parades, etc., which are conducted in the Clear Lake area.

Astronaut Dr. Laurel Clark speaks with New Mexico school students via one of W5RRR's HF stations. The JSCARC has been very active in the past with the recently completed Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX), space (Shuttle/Earth) and terrestrial (W5RRR/Schools) and the Russian Space Station Mir amateur radio activities.  The club is very actively supporting and involved with the development of the International Space Station (ISS) amateur radio (ARISS) activities.

The club callsign, W5RRR, is very well known on the HF, VHF and UHF bands.  It has been, and continues to be, one of the most active of the NASA facilities amateur radio stations.  There's nothing like getting on the air and being "Domestic DX" when operating W5RRR.

This site is a "work in progress."  Please send us your suggestions, ideas, favorite amateur radio-related space links, and, of course, criticisms about our webpages.  They are welcome and encouraged--we want to improve, so please comment.

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This page is maintained by Dale Martin, KG5U.

Comments, suggestions and contributions (images, links, articles) are solicited and welcome.

Last update: November 30, 2007