Posted on 02/08/2017 7:41:01 AM PST by SandRat
In order to be eligible to compete for points, units are limited to 20 watts output power and should use only tactical or field expedient antennas. Units competing for points must submit a station log that lists all radio contacts made during the competition. Units and teams desiring to train during this event -- but don't want to compete for points -- may use output power up to 1,000 watts and may use higher gain and directional antennas.
This training event will be conducted on both single channel and Automatic Link Establishment (ALE). All frequencies will be provided by NETCOM for this exercise. When stations make contact, the required information exchange will be station call signs and the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid zone designator were the station is located. Units competing for points will receive score multipliers for making an ALE contact as well as successfully sending and receiving a tactical chat digital message.
Units interested in participating or competing in this event may register at: http://www.usarmymars.org/home/qrpx-registration
For more information, interested units may contact Paul English at paul.a.english.civ@mail.mil
When satellites are shot out of the sky, cell phones and GPS are non-existent, HF will still work.......................
And the need for these exercises is apparent by the article most likely providing inaccurate information. UTM coordinates are non standardized, what they should be using is MGRS (Military Grid Reference System). Or even Lat/long as that is used in various data links.
A further issue with using UTM is that it does not include the Polar regions, so if an Antarctic station wanted to participate they could not provide UTM coordinates.
So will Signaling via Morse Code, Semaphore, Heliography, ...., gee - whiz,.... I’m talking of decades ago signals.
A Military Auxiliary Radio Station, lol.
I’ll hang a wire in the trees and talk around the world while you’re still hoping for a sunny day so you can use your heliograph...
"It's from the Americans, they want to organize a counter offensive"
How I miss Dad’s Zenith Transoceanic...
Two-Meter is about as far as I go.
CB with some discretion.
It has come in handy many times,
Thanks for posting.
I work in HF communications, and microwave. The military has almost abandoned HF, not quite, but everything else is satellite based. Mention HF and people think you’re from the Stone Age................
That’s the Army Signal Corps Age that I entered the Army in.
In addition to those reasons, during EMP NEMP, HF with Morse code will still be serviceable if they have tube transmitters/receivers. I have been out of the loop for 20 years, but even then it was rare that sending Morse code is taught.
I can talk, and listen, around the world, with no satellites and just a ‘clothesline’ for an antenna. In today’s world of high power semiconductors, it would not take much space either.................
As I recall, the last service to hang up Continuous Wave/CW (Morse code) operations in both MF & HF was the USCG. It was 1994 or 1995. The Coast Guard hung onto it as many shipping concerns internationally still employed CW on their ships. The Coast Guard was very good at it.
The way the US Navy would do this: turn off all satellite comms without notice, and with ships at sea.
For all fleets at the same time.
Dah Dah Dit. lol
Beethoven:
Dit-Dit-Dit-Dah.................
About 10 yrs. ago I ran across a Transoceanic in an antique shop. Big ol' thing, in a case similar to a portable sewing machine.
I didn't know they made that radio back then. It's a mod 600 IIRC, circa WWII era.
Bought it, cleaned it up, was dying to try it. Read up on them, 'don't try it unless it's been recapped.
Tubes uncommon and one tube, the main one is next to impossible to find, esp unused. Oh, and expensive.
I threw caution to the wind a plugged it in.
It worked ! Unplugged it a put it on the shelf.
As long as the EMP didn’t get them!
Tubes are impervious to EMP.....................
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