[CQ-Contest] 2021 Armed forces Day Cross-Band Test this Saturday (not Friday)

[donovanf at erols.com]

There is an error in the title and opening paragraph of the official 
MARS document, but the detailed operating schedule is correct: 




https://docs.google.com/file/d/1PYGao-Va6F6agNubzMSejbej2zD9RX2K/view 


The Armed Forces Day Cross-band Test is on Saturday and early Sunday. 
NSS will be active on Saturday from 8 a.m. (1200Z) until midnight 
(0400Z) Sunday. 



CW Freq SSB Freq 
4040.0 4041.5 LSB 
5332.0 5330.5 USB 
7535.0 7536.5 LSB 
9448.5 N/A 
14488.5 14487.0 USB 
17546.5 17545.0 USB 


We hope to work contesters on as many bands and modes 
as possible 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 




----- Original Message -----

From: donovanf at erols.com 
To: "cq-contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 4:56:32 AM 
Subject: 2021 Armed forces Day Cross-Band Test 






Please look for your fellow contesters as PVRC activates the historic 
NSS call sign on Saturday, May 8, during the 2021 Armed Forces 
Day Cross-Band Test . For more than 60 years, military and amateur 
stations have taken part in this exercise, during which military stations 
transmit on military frequencies and listen for radio amateurs in 
adjacent amateur bands. 


NSS operation will be from the location of the former US Navy 
High Power Radio Station at Greenbury Point in Annapolis, Maryland. 
NSS began operation in 1918 on VLF, using a pair of Federal Telegraph 
Company 500 kW Poulson arc transmitters and four 600-foot towers. 


NSS began operations on HF in the 1920s, and operations there 
continued until 1976. NSS was dismantled in 1999, but three of its 
600-foot towers remain on Greenbury Point. A commemorative 
NSS QSL card is available via K3LU (SASE appreciated). 



Callsigns and assigned frequencies of participating military stations: 



https://docs.google.com/file/d/1PYGao-Va6F6agNubzMSejbej2zD9RX2K/view 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL