{"id":587,"date":"2009-04-13T17:09:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2009-04-14T00:28:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:28:47","slug":"annual-armed-forces-day-crossband-test-scheduled-for-may-9-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for May 9 – 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"armed1\"The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military\/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 59th anniversary of Armed Forces Day.<\/p>\n

The AFD Military\/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted on May 9 –\u00a010, 2009. The annual celebration features traditional military to amateur crossband communications SSB voice tests and copying the Secretary of Defense message via digital modes.<\/p>\n

These tests give Amateur Radio operators and short wave listeners an opportunity to demonstrate their individual technical skills and to receive recognition from the Secretary of Defense and\/or the appropriate military radio station for their proven expertise.<\/p>\n

QSL cards will be provided to those stations making contact with the military stations. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Special commemorative certificates will be awarded to anyone who receives and copies the digital Armed Forces Day message from the Secretary of Defense.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military-to-Amateur crossband operations will take place on the dates and time in UTC on the frequencies listed for each station on the Army MARS Web site. Voice contacts will include operations in single sideband voice (SSB). Some stations, depending on propagation and manning, may not operate the entire period. Participating military stations will transmit on selected Military MARS frequencies and listen for Amateur Radio stations in the Amateur bands. The military station operator will announce the specific amateur band frequency being monitored. Duration of each voice contact should be limited to 1-2 minutes.<\/p>\n

Locally, the Navy-Marine Corps station, NAV3, will be on the air on these frequencies:<\/p>\n

TIMES AND DATES ARE:
\nSTATION: NAV3 (09 MAY 1200Z – 10 MAY 0400Z)
\nFREQUENCY\u00a0 \u00a0 EMISSION\u00a0 AMATEUR BAND
\n4014.0 KHZ\u00a0\u00a0 LSB\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 80M
\n7394.5 KHZ\u00a0\u00a0 LSB\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 40M
\n13974.0 KHZ\u00a0 USB\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 20M
\n20997.0 KHZ\u00a0 USB\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 15M
\nQSL ADDRESS:<\/p>\n

NAVMARCORMARS RADIO STATION NAV3
\n9035 OCEAN DR SUITE 3A
\nCORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78419-5234<\/p>\n

\u00a0FREQUENCIES AND TIME FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MESSAGE:<\/p>\n

STATION: NAV3 (NAVMARCORMARS RADIO STATION, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX)
\nFREQUENCY\u00a0 \u00a0 MODE\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 BROADCAST DATE\/TIME
\n7393.0 KHZ\u00a0\u00a0 RTTY\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 09 MAY\/2340Z
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 AMTOR FEC\u00a0 10 MAY\/0010Z
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 MT63\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 10 MAY\/0040Z
\n13975.5 KHZ\u00a0 RTTY\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 09 MAY\/2340Z
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 AMTOR FEC\u00a0 10 MAY\/0010Z
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 MT63\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 10 MAY\/0040Z<\/p>\n

Other military stations will also be on the air with their times\/call posted by the ARRL. You can expect to hear them on these frequencies announcing that they will be listening on amateur radio frequencies just like a “split-band” operation. DO NOT TRANSMIT ON THE ABOVE FREQUENCIES.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be operating as “NAV3”, from a field location,\u00a0during some of these times.<\/p>\n

Bob\u00a0 W2IK – NNN0KSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military\/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 59th anniversary of Armed Forces Day. The AFD Military\/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted on May 9 –\u00a010, 2009. The annual celebration features traditional military to amateur crossband communications SSB voice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,16],"tags":[104,37,102,103,70,799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}