[v7arcssbnet] Fwd: [PPRAANet] Armed Forces Day Crossband Test

Wed May 11 00:52:10 EDT 2022

This just in from our friends and neighbors...
...as we have been discussing on recent Saturday night nets... pretty cool
stuff!
A rare opportunity for hams and non-hams to make contact with each other
LEGALLY!

PLEASE go to www (dot) v7arc (dot) com   and look for the yellow button
"CrossBand Exercise Info"    on the front page.
THANK YOU, Steve N6SJM, Art KEØCQF, Nick KG5N and Mark (somebody please
insert his callsign, my apology),
Heather KEØJOU and Doug ADØTP for keeping us up to date on this!!

John Bloodgood KDØSFY is an ULTIMATELY RELIABLE source of information,
and was the stalwart Net Control Station who led us through the
Wednesday-evening COVID nets in 2020 or so.
(Thanks for that, John; I often checked from the Icom IC-22S in my car in
the garage and I remain in your fan club.)

BtW, yours truly will be on some hill or other this Saturday evening, 7:30
PM 144.220 MHz USB for the usual merriment...

 = Steve KØCI

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: John Bloodgood <johnbloodgood at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:25 PM
Subject: [PPRAANet] Armed Forces Day Crossband Test
To: PPRAA Reflector <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>

ANNUAL ARMED FORCES DAY CROSSBAND TEST (14 May 2022)

The Department of Defense will host this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD)
Crossband Test, scheduled for May
14, 2022. This annual event is open to all licensed amateur radio operators
and will not impact any public or
private communications. For more than 50 years, military and amateur
stations have taken part in this event,
which is an interoperability exercise between hobbyist and government radio
stations.

The AFD Crossband Test is a unique opportunity to test two-way
communications between military
communicators and radio stations in the Amateur Radio Service (ARS), as
authorized in 47 CFR 97.111. These
tests provide opportunities and challenges for radio operators to
demonstrate individual technical skills in a tightly
controlled exercise scenario that does not impact any public or private
communications.

Military stations will transmit on selected military frequencies and will
announce the specific ARS frequencies
monitored. All times are ZULU (Z), and all frequencies are Upper Side Band
(USB) unless otherwise noted. The
frequencies used for the test will not impact any public or private
communications and will not stray outside the
confines of the exercise.

The following stations will be making two-way radiotelephone contacts with
stations in the ARS between the
time periods listed on the frequencies listed in Kilohertz below.

AAZ / FT HUACHUCA, AZ
1500Z - 2359Z 5,330.5 kHz USB 14,579.0 kHz USB 18,211.0 kHz USB

AAC / BARROW ARMY RESERVE CENTER, KY (USB + RTTY)
1100Z - 2259Z 5,346.5 kHz USB 6,968.5 kHz USB 13,963.5 kHz USB

AAN / U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND, CO
1300Z - 1800Z 5,357.0 kHz USB 6,970.5 kHz USB 14,550.5 kHz USB

AAU / HQ US ARMY GARRISON FORT KNOX, KY (USB + RTTY)
1400Z - 1800Z 5,346.5 kHz US 7,493.5 kHz USB 14,441.5 kHz USB 18,281.5 kHz
USB

ABH / SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI
1900Z - 0200Z 14,512.5 kHz USB 18,254.0 kHz USB 20,997.0 kHz USB

ADB / CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA
1500Z - 2400Z 14,487.0 kHz USB 20,994.0 kHz USB

AGA0WJ / NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND, WA
1500Z – 2400Z 5,346.5 kHz USB 6,897.5 kHz USB 13,538.5 kHz USB

AFM4NPD / NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY MID-SOUTH, MILLINGTON, TN
1200Z – 2000Z 4,575.0 kHz USB 7,540.0 kHz USB 15,807.0 kHz USB 20,740.0 kHz
UBS

AAM3D / DISA CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE, FT MEADE, MD
1300Z - 2000Z 5,403.5 kHz USB 13,509.0 kHz USB 18,272.5 kHz USB

WAR / PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC (USB + CW + RTTY)
1200Z - 2400Z 5,357.0 kHz USB 7,357.0 kHz USB 13,910.5 kHz USB 20,920.0 kHz
USB

AIR / ANDREWS AFB
1200Z - 2359Z 4,517.0 kHz USB 7,305.0 kHz USB 15,807.0 kHz USB 20,740.0 kHz
USB

AGA2SY / HANCOCK FIELD, NY
1200Z - 2359Z 4,575.0 kHz USB 7,540.0 kHz USB 13,993.0 kHz USB

AGA5SC / SCOTT AFB, IL
1600Z - 2300Z 7,305.0 kHz U 7,915.0 kHz USB 14,832.0 kHz USB 27,736.0 kHz
USB

AGA5TR / TRAVIS AFB, CA
1600Z - 2359MARSZ 4,017.0 kHz USB 7,329.0 kHz USB 13,996.0 kHz USB 14,411.0
kHz USB

MARSRADIO /
1400Z –0100Z 4,557.0 kHz USB 7,460.0 kHz USB 14,606.0 kHz USB

MARSCOMM /
1400Z – 0100Z 4,448.5 kHz USB 6,994.5.0 kHz USB 14,877.0 kHz USB

NBKJ / USS YORKTOWN PATRIOTS POINT, SC
1300Z - 2200Z 4,027.0 kHz USB 7,360.0 kHz USB 14,438.5 kHz USB

NEPM / USS IOWA BB 61 LOS ANGELES, CA (USB + CW)
1400Z - 2359Z 4,018.0 kHz USB 5,371.5 kHz USB 7,360.0 kHz USB 13,506.5 kHz
USB
18,639 kHz USB 20,518.5 kHz USB

NIIW / USS MIDWAY CV-41 SAN DIEGO, CA (USB + CW + RTTY)
0000Z – 0600Z & 1401Z -2359Z 4,003.5 kHz USB 5,403.5 kHz USB 7,357.0 kHz USB
14,383.5 kHz USB 18,293.0 kHz USB

NWVC / LST-325 EVANSVILLE, IN (USB + CW)
1200Z - 0300Z 3,325.0 kHz USB 6,913.0 kHz USB 9,988.5 kHz USB 13,974.0 kHz
USB

NSS / US NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS, MD (USB + CW)
1300Z - 0200Z 4,038.5 kHz USB 5,330.5 kHz USB 7,533.5 kHz USB 9,947.0 kHz
USB 14,487.0 kHz USB

NAF / NEWPORT NAVAL RADIO STATION MUSEUM NEWPORT, RI (USB + CW)
1300Z - 2300Z 7,498.5 kHz USB 14,463.5 kHz USB

NMC1/ US COAST GUARD BASE ALAMEDA, CA
1700Z - 2359Z 7,351.5 kHz USB 14,459.5 kHz USB

SCHOOLHOUSE/ SAVANNAH CYBER TRAINING CENTER SAVANNAH, GA
1200Z - 1900Z 5,371.5 kHz USB 7,431.5 kHz USB 13,528.5 kHz USB

An AFD message will be transmitted utilizing the Military Standard
(MIL-STD) Serial PSK waveform
(M110) followed by MIL-STD Wide Shift FSK (850 Hz RTTY) as described in
MIL-STD 188-110A/B.
Technical information regarding these waveforms is provided at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pYDj7kQbm-QAyY4RPtx0dOXKohjaEjq9?usp=sharing

The AFD Sec Def Message will also be sent in Continuous Wave (CW) mode and
Radio Teletype (RRTY) at
1400Z and 2000Z on the frequency designated below.

AAZ: MILSTD110 14,579.0 kHz USB
AAU: MILSTD110 14,441.5 kHz USB
AAC: MILSTD110/RTTY 13,963.5 kHz USB
AGA0WJ: MILSTD110 13,538.5 kHz USB
ADB: MILSTD110 20,994.0 kHz USB
WAR: MILSTD110/RTTY/CW 13,910.5 kHz USB
AAM3D: MILSTD110 13,509.0 kHz USB
NEPM: RTTY 13,506.5 kHz USB
NWVC: CW 13,974.0 kHz USB
NIIW: MILSTD110/RTTY/CW 14,383.5 kHz USB

For those who wish to document their contacts with a QSL card, go to
https://www.usarmymars.org/events and
complete the request form.

>From https://www.dodmars.org/mars-comex-information-website/armed-forces-day

John Bloodgood, KD0SFY

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