[MRCA] Working Military direct, Armed Forces Cross Band

Mon Sep 12 18:17:37 EDT 2022

FWIW, here’s the AFD list from 2022. The only Navy stations activated were
museum ships and the Naval Academy.
https://svarc.us/annual-armed-forces-day-cross-band-exercise-set-for-may-14/

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 5:43 PM Jeep Platt <jeepcomms at outlook.com> wrote:

> Could the lack of Navy and USMC points of contact be due to the disbanding
> of the NavCorps MARS program and, hence, no assets available?
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> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on
> behalf of W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2022 2:13:07 PM
> *To:* Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; Rob Flory <
> farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>; mrca <mrca at mailman.qth.net>; MMRCG at groups.io
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> *Subject:* Re: [MRCA] Working Military direct, Armed Forces Cross Band
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> Gotcha. Yes I remember about armed forces day. I always seem to be out of
> touch when these events are occurring. I don’t think I saw any mention of
> it in advance on the lists. Next year!
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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> *From:* Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2022 11:22 AM
> *To:* W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com>; Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>; mrca <
> mrca at mailman.qth.net>; MMRCG at groups.io
> *Subject:* Working Military direct, Armed Forces Cross Band
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> WAR is the call sign for the radio station located in the Pentagon, AIR is
> Andrews AFB, NPAX Navy, Annapolis or maybe Patuxent River because they may
> have been NNS. Camp Evans up in NJ is AAV so you got one in your
> neighborhood.
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> Most of the operation is cross band where you listen to the military
> station on a band outside of the Ham band and they tell you what frequency
> they are monitoring in the Ham bands but the sixty meter operation is on
> the same frequency being both government and Ham share those channels.
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> The Armed Forces Day Cross band test is a annual event by the DoD and MARS
> every May, also its fun to have some three letter calls in the log book.
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> This is outdated but they don’t release the information until after the
> first of the year for the current opps but you can get an idea of the
> participating stations and there location from this web site:
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> https://www.n1fd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-05-Armed-Forces-Day-Crossband-Test-Information.pdf
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> Quick look at it and did not see any USMC stations participating, maybe we
> can get Rob to get his son to put the word out to the corps and have a USMC
> station on the air in the future?
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> *From:* W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2022 10:04 AM
> *To:* Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; Rob Flory <
> farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>; mrca <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* RE: [MRCA] OMRN/Phone
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> What is WAR?
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Ray Fantini
> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2022 9:27 AM
> *To:* Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>; mrca <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [MRCA] OMRN/Phone
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> Back at the Blue and Gray MVPA Show in Hagerstown last May worked WAR at
> the Pentagon several time on 5357 being that’s one of the channels that’s
> available to both Ham and military during the annual military cross band
> event. The advantage to using sixty meters was you did not have to do a
> cross band operation.
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> Had a couple other Hams and served as control operator for several
> veterans during the event and WAR cycled thru several operators on their
> end during the day. Think they liked the idea that it was a station set up
> at a MVPA Show running military equipment from a M151
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> Hard to imagine your son being grown and in the corps, remember him and my
> one daughter running all around the Howell building.
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> Both MRCA M&S Net and the MMRCG 7.296 Net take place on Saturday and are
> fairly regular although propagation has sucked lately. Don’t know about the
> 3885 Net being that I cant get inspired to get up that early and somehow
> always regarded 80 meters as the “Band of the Gas Bags” with 3885 heavily
> populated with people who want to talk for hours and say nothing, but maybe
> that’s just me.
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> Will have a bucket full of activity during the Gilbert event in a couple
> weeks, short and long range. Thin the web site is up to date for that.
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> http://www.mrca.ar88.net/Fall_Meet/fall_meet.html
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> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Rob Flory
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 10, 2022 5:48 AM
> *To:* mrca <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [MRCA] OMRN/Phone
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> My son, who used to attend MRCA events with me at Gilbert and InfoAge, is
> now in USMC communications.
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> He recently told me that his colleagues on the radio side want to work me
> on the air with my old stuff.  I had the idea that maybe I could give them
> a shout out on OMRN/Phone as they listened to all the other cool old
> radios.
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> I tuned in briefly this morning and was reminded that the net sounds too
> much like regular operations on 3885,  "solder to talk", long pauses during
> transmissions, old buzzard-style detailed stories about unrelated topics,
> etc. etc.
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> Ain't no 20-something wants to listen to that.
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> Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative way to reach this natural pool
> of future MRCA members?
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> 73, K2WI
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