[SFDXA] Members of the Potomac Valley Radio Club to Activate NSS for Armed Forces Day

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    Members of the Potomac Valley Radio Club to Activate NSS for Armed
    Forces Day

05/04/2021Members of the Potomac Valley Radio Club (*PVRC 
<http://www.pvrc.org/>*) will activate the historic NSS call sign on 
Saturday, May 8, during the 2021Â *Armed Forces Day Cross-Band Test 
<http://www.arrl.org/news/annual-armed-forces-day-cross-band-test-set-for-may-7-8>*. 
For more than 60 years, military and amateur stations have taken part in 
this exercise, during which *military stations 
<http://www.dodmars.org/home/armed-forces-day-2021>*Â transmit on 
military frequencies and listen for radio amateurs on adjacent amateur 
bands. It will take place May 7 – 8 this year.

NSS operation will be from the location of the former US Navy High-Power 
Radio Station at Greenbury Point in Annapolis, Maryland. NSS began 
operation in 1918 on VLF, using a pair of Federal Telegraph Company 500 
kW Poulson arc transmitters and four 600-foot towers. NSS began 
operations on HF in the 1920s, and operations there continued until 1976.

NSS was dismantled in 1999, but three of its 600-foot towers remain on 
Greenbury Point. A commemorative NSS QSL card is available via K3LU 
(SASE appreciated). — /Thanks to Frank Donovan, W3LPL/


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