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If you would like a W5RRR QSL for a contact made with us, please follow the procedure below to insure receipt of our card.  The club receives no franking privileges or financial support for mailing QSL's.

U.S. stations: Please send your QSL card with a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) to the address below.

DX stations: Please send your QSL card direct with a self-addressed envelope (SAE) and IRC's sufficient for return mailing to your country to the address below.

W5RRR Address:

NASA Johnson Space Center
Attn: AW7/JSC Amateur Radio Club
2101 NASA Parkway
Houston, Texas 77058


Our Current and Past QSL Cards
We've issued a number of different QSL cards over the years. There are a couple of QSL's missing from our collection that we cannot find among our members. If you have one that you received from us and does not appear below, please contact KG5U. If you can scan it at a high JPEG quality and e-mail it to KG5U, he can add it to the collection below. Or if you mail it to us, We will scan it and return it to you. We will give you credit on the webpage for your help.

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Our Current QSL Card
This QSL card has been in use since 1982 as our generic, all-purpose QSL card. During the first four Space Shuttle flights, STS-1, -2, -3, and -4, we issued individual mission cards to commemorate those flights. It was just too labor intensive to develop and get printed a new card for each Space Shuttle flight, so the generic card was adopted.
The images on the card include a view of the 'old' Mission Control Center Flight Control Room #1 (upper-left), a view looking out of the shuttle orbiter's aft-looking flight deck windows (lower-left), a shuttle launch picture (middle), an Edwards, CA, dry lakebed Shuttle landing picture (upper-right) and a view of our old HF console and operating position at W5RRR (lower-right).
In the picture of the station, you can see some of the equipment used at W5RRR when the picture was taken in the early 80's. Check our W5RRR Station webpage for the current equipment setup.
  • Collins 32S3 HF transmitter
  • Collins 75S3C HF receiver
  • Collins 30S1 HF linear amplifier
  • Collins 51S1 general coverage HF receiver
  • Rockwell (Collins) KWM-380 HF transceiver
  • Alpha 76A HF linear amplifier
  • Robot 600C SSTV Converter
Other equipment not seen included our VHF station equipment (which, at that time, consisted of a 2-meter FM transceiver (Icom IC-22S, I believe it was) and another HF radio console containing a couple of Collins KWM-2A's and Collins 30L-1 HF linear amplifiers.

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Apollo 11 25th Anniversary Certificate
During July 19 through 22, 1994, we commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, man's first steps on the moon. During the four-day period, we contacted close to two thousand stations around the U.S. and the world. Operating in conjunction with other NASA Center amateur radio clubs around the country in special event status, we issued this certificate for those contacts.

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Space Shuttle STS-1, -2, -3, and -4 flights
Four test flights were conducted to certify the Space Shuttle orbiters for operational flight readiness.
These cards were issued to W5RRR contacts to commemorate those flights.
   
   

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Early JSCARC QSL Cards
This card was used during the time between the end of the Skylab Project and the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program flights. This card was used as a special event card during the Skylab Project (1973).
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This page is maintained by Dale Martin, KG5U.

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Last update: February 15, 2007