[CW] Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community Set

[john]

Sweepstakes CW will qualify as a "very very bad day" to operate CW 
training on ( or a very very good one, depending on how one likes the SS 
exchange!)

73
John K5MO




On 10/30/2017 3:56 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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