• Maritime Radio Day Event Set for April

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Thu Mar 16 23:56:21 2017
    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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