[K3VOA] Historic NSS Call Sign to be Reactivated During its 100th Anniversary

[Ken Claerbout]

Historic U.S. Navy callsign NSS will be reactivated during the 100th
anniversary of the former Naval Radio Station in Annapolis, Maryland.
The U.S. Naval Academy Radio Club (W3ADO) and the Potomac Valley Radio
Club (W3GRF) will reactivate the historic callsign during the upcoming
Armed Forces Day Crossband Military/Amateur Radio Communications Test.

NSS operations from the location of the former Naval Radio Station on
Greenbury Point will be from 1300Z Saturday May 12 to 0200Z May 13.
CW and SSB transmissions will be on 4038.5, 5330.5, 7533.5, 9447,
14487 and 17545 kHz. NSS will listen for callers on announced
frequencies in adjacent amateur bands. Commemorative QSLs will be sent
for all QSOs.

NSS began operations in 1918 as the Annapolis High Power Radio Station
using a pair of Federal Telegraph Company 500 kilowatt Poulson Arc
transmitters and four 600 foot towers operating in the Very Low
Frequency (VLF) band. At that time VLF provided the only known
capability for trans-oceanic radio communications. NSS began
continuous operations in the HF bands about ten years later until 1976
when its HF mission was transferred to Naval Radio Station NAM in
Norfolk, Virginia. The 1200 foot  central tower and dozens of other
towers and masts were demolished in 1999, except for three iconic 600
foot Eiffel towers that remain at the southern tip of Greenbury Point.

A brief video history of NSS is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuJ6DB9drw<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuJ6DB9drw>

A virtual tour of NSS is here: http://j-hawkins.com/nss.shtml
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