This is a reminder of this event coming up next weekend. For those who may not be familiar with it, here is some info in a nutshell:
The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual military/amateur radio communications tests in celebration of the 57th Anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD). Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on Saturday, May 19, 2007, the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted 12 May 2007 to prevent conflict with the Dayton Hamvention (18-20 May 2007), which is the same weekend as the actual Armed Forces Day. The annual celebration features traditional military to amateur cross band communications SSB voice tests and copying the Secretary of Defense message via digital modes. These tests give Amateur Radio operators and Short Wave Listeners (SWL) an opportunity to demonstrate their individual technical skills, and to receive recognition from the Secretary of Defense and/or the appropriate military radio station for their proven expertise. QSL cards will be provided to those stations making contact with the military stations. Special commemorative certificates will be awarded to anyone who receives and copies the digital Armed Forces Day message from the Secretary of Defense. I am the QSL manager for and will be one of the operators for one of the stations participating in the event: WUG-231. Here are the details of our operation: STATION: WUG-231 (12 May 1300Z - 13 May 0200Z) Frequency Emission Amateur Band 4032.9 kHz LSB 80M 7.360.0 kHz LSB 40M 6.826.0 kHz LSB 40M 14486.0 kHz USB 20M 14663.5 kHz USB 20M 20973.5 kHz USB 15M We will be operating from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers W.G. Huxtable Pumping Plant near Marianna, Arkansas. As an added "extra," I will be providing special QSL cards that will only be available for SWL reports. No return postage is necessary and you may send them to me at the postal address below, or via e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The postal address is: Jim Pogue AFD Test 2007 P.O. Box 3777 Memphis, TN 38173 USA Finally, here is the link for full details on the other stations participating in this year's tests. http://www.netcom.army.mil/mars/docs/ARMEDFORCESDAYFinal.doc Thanks, and I hope to get lots of reports from my fellow SWLs. 73s, Jim Pogue/KH2AR ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
