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Amateurs Invited to Participate in Armed Forces Day On-Air Event
NEWINGTON, CT,
Apr 29, 2002--Amateur Radio operators are invited to take part in the 52nd
celebration of Armed Forces Day by exchanging contacts with Army, Air Force,
Navy-Marine Corps and Coast Guard radio stations. This year's traditional Armed
Forces Day Anniversary and Military/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will
take place the weekend of May 11-12.
"These tests
give Amateur Radio operators and short-wave listeners an opportunity to
demonstrate their individual technical skills and receive recognition from the
Secretary of Defense or the appropriate military station for their proven
expertise," the chiefs of the Army, Air Force and Navy-Marine Corps Military
Affiliate Radio System (MARS) said in announcing the event.
Armed Forces
Day actually falls on May 18, but the office of Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld rescheduled the traditional cross-band communications test to avoid a
conflict with the Dayton Hamvention May 17-19.
During the
cross-band test, military stations in the continental US, Germany and Hawaii
will listen on amateur frequencies in the 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10-meter bands and
transmit on selected MARS frequencies--a mode of operation similar to the split
operation used by many DXers. Participating military stations will announce
their listening frequencies. Not all stations will be active on all amateur
bands.
Starting at
1100 UTC on May 11 (individual stations' operating hours will vary), 13
military stations will be on the air on SSB and will exchange QSL cards. MARS
has requested that contacts be limited to two minutes or less. Depending on
staffing and propagation, some stations may not be on the air during the entire
communications test period.
Ten additional
stations will transmit the Secretary of Defense's Armed Forces Day message at
stated intervals via digital modes including PACTOR, AMTOR, G-TOR and Clover.
Commemorative certificates will be awarded to amateurs submitting "as received"
hard-copy evidence of successful reception.
A full listing
of stations, frequencies, anticipated hours of operation and operating
instructions is available on the Army MARS Web site.
Page last modified: 08:17 AM, 24 Apr 2002 ET
Page author: awextra@arrl.org
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