[GCARC] Cross-band armed forces on the air - Saturday!

[Jim Wright]

Hey GCARC!
Remember the article in the May edition of Crosstalk titled "How to
participate Cross-Band with the Armed Forces on May 14, 2016"?
Well, that day is here!
Most stations go on the air starting in the morning.
See the tables in the Crosstalk for frequencies to listen for them to
transmit on.
They'll then tell you what frequency in the ham band they are listening on
- which is the frequency you split set your transmitter to.  Listen to them
on their military frequency, transmit to them where your license class
allows you to on a ham band frequency. How cool is that!

Personally, I will be hunting first for callsign "WAR" (the Pentagon
station, Washington DC). They're scheduled to be on 60M band 5.357 Mhz,
starting after 1200Z (8am our time). I don't have many contacts on the 60M
ham band.  And none of my QSL on this band are with a military station.
Something different!
Looks like there are some others interesting military callsigns to chase on
the 40 Meter band, like "AIR" (Andrews AFB) on 7.305 Mhz. I'll try and
chase them too.

More details at http://www.usarmymars.org/home/announcements

Good luck everyone!

Jim