sabato 25 aprile 2015

Armed Forces Day Crossband test 9-10 May

   The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual military/amateur radio communications tests in celebration of Armed Forces Day (AFD) and the 90th Anniversary of MARS. Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on Saturday, May 16, 2015, the AFD Military/Amateur Cross band Communications Test will be conducted 09-10 May 2015 to prevent conflict with the Dayton Hamvention on 15-17 May 2015.
This annual event is a unique opportunity to test two way communications between Amateurs and military stations as authorized in 47 CFR 97.111, and features traditional military to amateur cross band SSB voice, Morse Code, and legacy interoperability waveforms. New for this year’s event, Amateur Radio stations may try their hand at using more modern military communications modes such as MIL-STD Serial PSK. Also new for this year is the cross band Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) test.
This annual event gives Amateur Radio operators and Short Wave Listeners (SWL) an opportunity and a challenge to demonstrate their individual technical skills, and to receive recognition from the appropriate military radio station for their proven expertise. QSL cards will be provided to those stations making contact with the military stations.
Amateur Radio stations and Short Wave Listeners that are interested in trying the MIL-STD Serial PSK mode can download the software program called “MS-DMT” from site: http://www.n2ckh.com/MARS_ALE_FORUM/MSDMT.html.
For a complete listing of participating military stations, operating modes, and times of operation, go to:
http://www.usarmymars.org/home/announcements or the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HQArmyMARS?ref=hl


 
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