{"id":52724,"date":"2022-05-14T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52724"},"modified":"2022-05-14T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T11:25:22","slug":"today-14-may-2022-annual-armed-forces-day-crossband-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/today-14-may-2022-annual-armed-forces-day-crossband-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Today (14 May 2022): Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who notes that today is the annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test.<\/p>\n

Click here to download a PDF document<\/a> with all details including frequencies, schedule, and QSL info. Thanks for the tip, Ulis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who notes that today is the annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test. Click here to download a PDF document with all details including frequencies, schedule, and QSL info. Thanks for the tip, Ulis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8752,545,3,43],"tags":[7004,7075],"class_list":["post-52724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-radio","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-armed-forces-day-crossband-test","tag-ulis-fleming-k3lu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dIo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32849,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/nss-annapolis-qsls-for-swls\/","url_meta":{"origin":52724,"position":0},"title":"NSS Annapolis QSLs for SWLs","author":"Thomas","date":"June 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis Fleming (K3LU), who writes: I wanted to pass along some information regarding the NSS Annapolis radio station. Last year\u2019s cards were sent out for Armed Forces day with one generic card with all the callsigns. 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