03/16/2017
Maritime Radio Day[1] will take place in mid-April, with activity - all on CW - centering on International Naval Frequencies, 1,824; 3,520; 7,020; 10,118; 14,052; 21,052, and 28,052 kHz. Maritime Radio Day is held annually to commemorate nearly 100 years of CW maritime wireless service. Register[2] online.
The event gets under way at 1200 UTC on April 14 and concludes at 2200 UTC on April 15. Participants exchange QSA (signal strength, 1-5), QRK (readability, 1-5), name, call sign of last or favorite ship/aircraft/maintenance company and "additionally a tr, msg and/or a QTC, if you like." SWLs are welcome to take part. A newly designed certificate of participation will be available.
Submit logs by May 1 via e-mail[3] to Rolf Marschner, DL9CM, or Narzissenweg 10, 53359 Rheinbach, Germany. - Thanks to David Ring, N1EA
[1]
http://www.trafficlist.net/mrd/
[2]
http://www.seefunk-fx-intern.de/mrdaward/mrd_registry.php
[3] mailto:
dl9cm@t-online.de
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