[CW] MRD - Marconi Radio Day 2015

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW]

http://www.trafficlist.net/mrd/

Maritime Radio Day 2015

Maritime Radio Day April 2015



this edition will be held on April 14th 12h00 GMT until April 15th 22h00 GMT

The Maritime Radio Day is being held annually to remember the nearly 90
years of wireless service for seafarers. Since its beginning in 1900,
Maritime Radio was in use mainly until the end of 1998.

The MRD is open to all Amateur Radio Stations. Special stations (like
Coastal radios and ship’s callsigns) can participate to the MRD only if
operated by former Commercial or Navy operators, or by radio technicians
who worked in the installation and/or maintenance of naval equipments.

If you are a former Merchant Marine Radio Operator or former ship’s
electronic Technician please subscribe to this event by communicating your
certificate type/year, your Amateur Radio callsign and last ship of last
coast radio you served to R/O Rolf Marschner at:

 dl9cm at t-online.de

Rules:

1 Bands: 160m, 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m & 10m & WARC
2 Mode: CW only
3 Power: not limited
4 QSO – Exchange: QSA, QRK, name, callsign of last or favorite ship /
aircraft / maintance company (DEBEG, SAIT, SIRM)
5 Silence periods do not have to be observed
6 Deadline of MRD-NC is 1st of May.
7 Certificate of participation (CoP) is available via e-mail only (see
notes)
8 Results of MRD-NC will be published on MRD homepage
9 QSL cards: Each participant manages their own QSL card. There is no qsl
manager.

Notes:

- QSA (1 to 5) is the strength of the received signal
- QRK (1 to 5) is the readability and additional a : tr, msg and/or a qtc
if you like
- Certificate of Participation (CoP):
SWL’s have to send a complete log entry.
Licensed operators can send their contact list with naval, coastal, special
stations to dl9cm at t-online.de

News and Updates


>From http://www.trafficlist.net/category/mrd/

  MRD 2015 Working Frequency

   1824.0 kHz
3520.0 kHz
7020.0 kHz
10.118.0 kHz
14.052.0 kHz
18087.0  kHz
21.052.0 kHz
24.897.0 kHz
28.052.0 kHz

The use of WARC frequencies is not higly recomended because in the past we
had not much traffic on these bands except on the CW band of 30 meters.
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