[SFDXA] Armed Forces Day

Bill bmarx at bellsouth.net
Thu May 9 13:21:21 EDT 2019


 From Another List: - Bill W2CQ

PVRC members operating at NSS this Saturday
By W3LPL, Frank Donovan
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This year's Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test is on Saturday May
11. This annual event is open to all licensed Amateur Radio operators.
For more than 50 years, military and amateur stations have taken part
in this event, which is only an exercise scenario, designed to include
hobbyist and government radio operators alike.
http://www.usarmymars.org/events/armed-forces-day

Twenty Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) members will activate the
historic NSS callsign this Saturday from the location of the former
U.S. Navy High Power Radio at Greenbury Point in Annapolis. Visitors
are welcome at Beach Circle, Annapolis.
https://goo.gl/maps/KHuMYaS1tiNGpQ9v7

NSS began operations in 1918 using a pair of Federal Telegraph Company
500 kilowatt Poulson arc transmitters and four 600 foot towers in the
Very Low Frequency (VLF) band. Until 1921 VLF provided the only known
capability for trans-oceanic radio communications.

NSS began fifty years of continuous operations in the HF bands from
about 1926 until 1976 when its HF mission was terminated and
transferred to NAVCOMMSTA Norfolk, Virginia (NAM). NSS was dismantled
in 1999, only three 600 foot towers remain at the tip of Greenbury
Point, installed during a major VLF antenna upgrade in 1938.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/NSS_Annapolis_Towers.JPG

We plan to operate continuously on six frequencies on CW and SSB from
about 1200Z until 0400Z Sunday. Who will work NSS on all eleven
band/modes?

A commemorative NSS QSL is available via K3LU. This is last year's
QSL:https://i0.wp.com/swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NSS-QSL-CArd-e1529320144216.jpeg?ssl=1

NSS transmitting frequencies, NSS will listen for callers on announced
frequencies in adjacent amateur bands
         
  4041.5 LSB        4039.0 CW
  5330.5 USB        5330.5 CW
  7536.5 LSB        7534.0 CW
                    9447.0 CW
14487.0 USB       14487.0 CW
17545.0 USB       17545.0 CW

More information about NSS is available at:

https://youtu.be/jWuJ6DB9drw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he428tqLbpk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSS_Annapolis

http://j-hawkins.com/nss.shtml

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/greenbury-point.htm



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