Yeah... I know its not a contest but its lots of fun to work your
fellow contesters operating during this more than fifty year old
emergency preparedness and patriotic event.
This year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test is on Saturday May 11.
This annual event is open to all licensed amateur radio operators . For more
than 50 years, military and amateur stations have taken part in this event,
which is only an exercise scenario, designed to include amateur and
government radio operators alike.
http://www.usarmymars.org/events/armed-forces-day
Twenty PVRC members will activate the historic NSS callsign this
Saturday from the location of the former U.S. Navy High Power Radio
at Greenbury Point in Annapolis. Visitors are welcome at Beach Circle,
Annapolis.
https://goo.gl/maps/KHuMYaS1tiNGpQ9v7
NSS began operations in 1918 using a pair of Federal Telegraph Company
500 kilowatt Poulson arc transmitters and four 600 foot towers in the
Very Low Frequency (VLF) band. Until 1921 VLF provided the only
known capability for trans-oceanic radio communications.
NSS began fifty years of continuous operations in the HF bands from about
1926 until 1976 when its HF mission was terminated and transferred to
NAVCOMMSTA Norfolk, Virginia (NAM). NSS was dismantled in 1999,
only three 600 foot towers remain at the tip of Greenbury Point, installed
during a major VLF antenna upgrade in 1938.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/NSS_Annapolis_Towers.JPG
NSS plans to operate continuously on six frequencies on CW and SSB from
about 8 a.m. until midnight Saturday. Who will work NSS on all eleven
bands and modes?
A commemorative NSS QSL is available via K3LU.
This is last year's QSL:
https://i0.wp.com/swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NSS-QSL-CArd-e1529320144216.jpeg?ssl=1
NSS transmitting frequencies , NSS will listen for callers on announced
frequencies in adjacent amateur bands
4041.5 LSB 4039.0 CW
5330.5 USB 5330.5 CW
7536.5 LSB 7534.0 CW
9447.0 CW
14487.0 USB 14487.0 CW
17545.0 USB 17545.0 CW
In addition to working your fellow contesters operating at military
stations this Saturday , please also spot us on the DX Cluster because
no one is ever going to find our transmitting frequencies by accident
except on 60 meters where government frequencies are shared with hams.
DX Clusters will not accept out-of-ham-band frequencies,
t his is the only DX spotting procedure that will work:
DX NSS 14037 transmitting 14487
Have some fun and work (and spot) as many of the Armed Forces Day
stations on as many bands and modes as you can, the full announcement
including transmitting frequencies is here. Click on the pdf document
at the bottom of the page:
www.usarmymars.org/events/armed-forces-da y
Information about interesting history of NSS is available here:
https://youtu.be/jWuJ6DB9drw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he428tqLbpk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSS_Annapolis
http://j-hawkins.com/nss.shtml
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/greenbury-point.htm
73
Frank
W3LPL
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