[CW] Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community Set

[Radio K0HB]

Whoa!

I’d like to participate, but that’s the biggest CW weekend of the year,
Sweepstakes CW, the traffic guys contest.

73, de Hans, K0HB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™


On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 13:13 David J. J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community Set
>
>
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/communications-interoperability-training-with-amateur-radio-community-set
>
> Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community
> Set
>
> 10/24/2017
>
> Elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will conduct a
> “communications interoperability” training exercise November 4-6, once
> again simulating a “very bad day” scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS
> organizations will take part.
>
> “This exercise will begin with a national massive coronal mass ejection
> event which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of
> traditional communication, including landline telephone, cellphone,
> satellite, and Internet connectivity,” Army MARS Program Manager Paul
> English, WD8DBY, explained in an announcement.
>
> During the exercise, a designated DOD Headquarters entity will request
> county-by-county status reports for the 3,143 US counties and county
> equivalents, in order to gain situational awareness and to determine the
> extent of impact of the scenario. Army and Air Force MARS organizations
> will work in conjunction with the Amateur Radio community, primarily on
> the 60-meter interoperability channels as well as on HF NVIS frequencies
> and local VHF and UHF, non-Internet linked Amateur Radio repeaters.
>
> Again this year, a military station on the east coast and the Fort
> Huachuca, Arizona, HF station will conduct a high-power broadcast on
> 60-meter channel 1 (5330.5 kHz) on Saturday from 0300 to 0315 UTC. New
> this year will be an informational broadcast on Sunday, on 13,483.5 kHz
> USB from 1600 to 1615 UTC. Amateur Radio operators should monitor these
> broadcasts for more information about the exercise and how they can
> participate in this communications exercise, English said.
>
> “We want to continue building on the outstanding cooperative working
> relationship with the ARRL and the Amateur Radio community,” English
> said. “We want to expand the use of the 60-meter interop channels
> between the military and amateur community for emergency communications,
> and we hope the Amateur Radio community will give us some good feedback
> on the use of both the 5-MHz interop and the new 13-MHz broadcast
> channels as a means of information dissemination during a very bad day
> scenario.
>
> Contact English for more information or questions about this exercise.
>
> From  ARRL
>
> 73
> DR
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