Hey Frank,
Will NSS be operating FT4 or any other digital modes Just kidding!!!
We will look you and fellow PVRCers on all bands / modes from KP2. Good luck
with you operation and I know it will be a success as you are involved.
73,
Fred, NP2X / K9VV
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 11:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: donovanf@starpower.net
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Work your fellow contesters operating during
> Armed Forces Day this Saturday
>
> 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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