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WD8DBY

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HF Skills Exercise
« on: July 10, 2020, 06:19:31 AM »

Members of the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) will conduct an HF skills exercise July 20 - 24 to hone their operating skills and messaging-handling capabilities. MARS members will be reaching out to the amateur radio community via the 60 meters Channel 1 Net (5330.5 kHz dial) twice a day (noon local time and 2000 hrs local time), the SATERN HF net (14.265 MHz), and by contacting various stations via HFLink throughout the exercise.

Participating MARS members will be requesting assistance with collecting county status information as well as airport weather information, called METARs. MARS members will also be passing ICS 213 messages to numerous Department of Defense (DoD), federal, and amateur radio addressees.

This exercise will be announced via WWV at 00:10 and via WWVH at 00:50 starting on July 13. WWV and WWVH listeners will be asked to take an online listener survey. This HF radio training event will not impact regular communications.
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KG7LEA

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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2020, 06:45:38 AM »

What time zone?
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WD8DBY

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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2020, 07:38:15 AM »

What time zone?

noon and 2000 local time
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K5TEE

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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2020, 12:30:12 PM »

What time zone?

noon and 2000 local time

Noon and 2000 Eastern Time zone is different than Noon and 2000 Pacific time zone, by 3 hours.
So again, What Time Zone?

Tom
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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2020, 07:01:49 PM »

You would think a MARS net would use UTC?

N9AOP

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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2020, 08:40:57 AM »

MARS nets for MARS only use always use UTC.  When including amateurs in an exercise, local time is usually added.
Art
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WD8DBY

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Re: HF Skills Exercise
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2020, 01:14:02 PM »

What time zone?

noon and 2000 local time

Noon and 2000 Eastern Time zone is different than Noon and 2000 Pacific time zone, by 3 hours.
So again, What Time Zone?

Tom
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There will be different stations on the air at noon and 2000 hrs local to each time zone.
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