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LARC Members:<br>
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In case you do not receive the ARRL bulletins, the following is
forwarded for your perusal.<br>
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73 de joe/ad4ih<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: ARRL Web site<br>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:08 AM<br>
Subject: ARLX003 Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test
Scheduled for May 12<br>
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SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX003<br>
ARLX003 Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for
May 12<br>
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ZCZC AX03<br>
QST de W1AW<br>
Special Bulletin 3 ARLX003<br>
>From ARRL Headquarters<br>
Newington CT May 2, 2012<br>
To all radio amateurs <br>
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SB SPCL ARL ARLX003<br>
ARLX003 Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for
May 12<br>
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The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are
co-sponsoring<br>
the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications
Test in<br>
celebration of the 62nd anniversary of Armed Forces Day
(AFD). Although the<br>
actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday
in May -- May 19<br>
in 2012 -- the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications
Test will be<br>
conducted on May 12 to prevent conflict with the Dayton
Hamvention,<br>
scheduled for May 18-20.<br>
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The annual celebration features traditional
military-to-amateur crossband<br>
communications SSB voice and Morse code tests. These tests
give Amateur<br>
Radio operators and short wave listeners an opportunity to
demonstrate their<br>
individual technical skills and to receive recognition from
the appropriate<br>
military radio station for their proven expertise. QSL cards
will be<br>
provided to those stations making contact with the military
stations.<br>
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Military-to-amateur crossband operations will take place on
the dates and<br>
time in UTC on the frequencies listed for each station.<br>
Voice contacts will include operations in single sideband
voice (SSB). Some<br>
stations, depending on propagation and staffing, may not
operate the entire<br>
period. Participating military stations will transmit on
selected military<br>
MARS frequencies and listen for Amateur Radio stations in
the amateur bands.<br>
The military station operator will announce the specific
amateur band<br>
frequency being monitored. Duration of each voice contact
should be limited<br>
to 1-2 minutes.<br>
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The schedules and frequencies of participating military
stations can be<br>
found in PDF format on the web at,<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.netcom.army.mil/MARS/docs/AMC_Test_2012.pdf.">http://www.netcom.army.mil/MARS/docs/AMC_Test_2012.pdf.</a><br>
NNNN<br>
/EX<br>
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