[W1SMH] Fw: ARMY MARS to reach out to Amateur Stations for Reception Reports

[Ray Cord]

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On Saturday, March 19, 2022, 2:31 PM, n1xtb at powersrvcs.com <n1xtb at powersrvcs.com> wrote:


Hi Ray, K2TGX
Relayed from Stu W1SHS
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An ask from Army Mars regarding reception reports for the BBC signal for
Ukraine.

This information is also posted at:

https://ema.arrl.org/2022/03/19/army-mars-to-reach-out-to-amateur-stations-for-reception-reports/

If you are able, please send signal reports to Tom Kinahan,
aaa1rd at usamars.us

Thank you!

73
Stu Solomon W1SHS
ARES District Emergency Coordinator, Norfolk County
ARRL Assistant Section Manager, Eastern MA

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Tom Kinahan-N1CPE, US Army Military Auxiliary Radio System, writes:

ARMY MARS to reach out to Amateur Stations for Reception Reports

Due to current events, the BBC has resumed shortwave broadcasts into
Ukraine and Russia. In order to improve Amateur to MARS communications,
MARS stations will be requesting to see if amateur stations can provide
a reception report for these BBC transmissions. The BBC broadcasts are:

Frequency  English Broadcast
15735 KHz  1300-1500Z
5875  KHz  2000-2200Z

The request is to see if you can hear any of these daily broadcasts, and
get your report to a MARS station near you. MARS stations for their part
will be reaching out on normal amateur frequencies, using their amateur
callsigns. You will be asked for your callsign a signal report, time and
frequency of the report, and your city and state.

The signal report can take the form of: Good Readable, Readable, Poor,
Unreadable. If you listened, but didn't hear anything, we want to know
that with an Unreadable report.

The end result will be for stations to learn if their stations can
receive these international broadcasts, to indicate a possible need for
station improvement.

The exercise will last through March 25, but if you have gathered some
reports, please don't lose them, and send them after that time, to me by
email, if you were unable to identify a local ARMY MARS station.

Let's have some fun with this! Thanks for your support.

Tom Kinahan
US Army Military Auxiliary Radio System
Region One Director
aaa1rd at usamars.us



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