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About MARS	English (USA)
MARS is a Department of Defense sponsored program, established as a separately managed and operated program by the Army, Navy, and Air Force. In November 1925, the Army Amateur Radio System (AARS) was formed by a few dedicated pioneers in the United States Army Signal Corps. This organization continued until the start of World War II when operations were suspended. Army amateur radio was authorized to resume operations in 1946 and the Army Amateur Radio System was reactivated and functioned as such until 1948 when the Army and Air Force established the Military Amateur Radio System, later renamed the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS). In 1962, the Navy-Marine Corps MARS program was launched making MARS a joint service program. QST Magazine archives expand on the birth of AARS (MARS) in 1925: The Army-Amateur Radio System was a joint undertaking of U.S. Army Signal Corps and the ARRL. The October 1925 issue of QST quotes Maj. Gen. Charles McKinley Saltzman, then the Army's Chief Signal Officer, on the purpose of this historic alliance: to secure additional channels of communication throughout the continental limits of the United States that can be used in the time of an emergency such that telephone and telegraph are seriously damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, tornado, earthquake, ice, or other cause. IMPORTANT: IF YOUR E-MAIL USER NAME IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR AMATEUR OR MARS CALLSIGN, YOU MUST SEND YOUR FULL NAME (FIRST AND LAST) AND EITHER CALLSIGN TO THE LIST ADMINISTRATOR, [email protected] To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the MARS Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
Using MARS
To post a message to all the list members, send email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to the list, or change your existing subscription, in the sections below.
Subscribing to MARS
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MARS Subscribers
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