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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