{"id":21960,"date":"2016-10-28T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21960"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:23:29","slug":"this-weekend-mars-communication-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/this-weekend-mars-communication-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"This weekend: MARS communication exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hammarlund-HQ-120X-DialLight\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan (K2DLS)<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n

There is a MARS communication exercise taking place this weekend. As
\npart of the exercise, a MARS station on the east and west coasts will
\nbroadcast a bulletin which will be verified by a QSL.<\/p>\n

Please see the notice below:
\nA HIGH POWER 60 METER BROADCAST WILL BE MADE TO THE AMATEUR RADIO
\nCOMMUNITY THIS SUNDAY 30 OCT AT 2300 HOURS ON 5330.5 USB (60 M). IT
\nWILL REPEATEDLY RUN A 5 MINUTE BROADCAST FOR AN HOUR ALTERNATING
\nBETWEEN AN EAST COAST AND WEST COAST STATION. THE BROADCAST WILL
\nINSTRUCT AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS TO MAKE CONTACT WITH A MARS STATIONS ON
\n60 METER CHANNELS (INCLUDING 5330.5 USB) AND REPORT LOCAL CONDITIONS.
\nAMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS WHO RECEIVE THE HIGH POWER 60 METER BROADCAST
\nWILL ALSO RECEIVE A QSL CARD BY ENTERING A RECEPTION REPORT ON THE
\nWWW.USARMYMARS.ORG<\/a> WEBSITE.<\/p>\n

Carver W2TFM
\nMARS Region 2 (NY & NJ) Director, AAA2RD
\n——–<\/p>\n

73, Dan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

VEry cool! Thank you, Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan (K2DLS), who writes: There is a MARS communication exercise taking place this weekend. As part of the exercise, a MARS station on the east and west coasts will broadcast a bulletin which will be verified by a QSL. Please see the notice below: A HIGH POWER 60 METER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[389,4715,4102,5562],"class_list":["post-21960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-amateur-radio","tag-dan-srebnick","tag-ham-radio","tag-mars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/hf-military-communication-exercise-announcements-on-wwv-wwvh\/","url_meta":{"origin":21960,"position":0},"title":"HF military communication exercise announcements on WWV\/WWVH","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: ARRL News via Eric WD8RIF) The US Department of Defense (DOD) plans to start making use of a provisional time slot on WWV and WWVH to announce upcoming HF military communication exercises and how the Amateur Radio community can become involved in them. 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