[CQ-Contest] NSS Operation

[Fred Kleber]

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 at starpower.net
> To: cq-contest <cq-contest at 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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