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ARRL Bulletin 19  ARLB019
> From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  October 24, 2017
To all radio amateurs

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ARLB019 Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community
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Elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will conduct a "communications
interoperability" training exercise November 4-6, once again simulating a "very
bad day" scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS organizations will take part.

"This exercise will begin with a national massive coronal mass ejection event
which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of traditional
communication, including landline telephone, cellphone, satellite, and Internet
connectivity," Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, explained in an
announcement.

During the exercise, a designated DOD Headquarters entity will request
county-by-county status reports for the 3,143 US counties and county
equivalents, in order to gain situational awareness and
to determine the extent of impact of the scenario. Army and Air Force MARS
organizations will work in conjunction with the Amateur Radio community,
primarily on the 60-meter interoperability channels as well as on HF NVIS
frequencies and local VHF and UHF, non-Internet linked Amateur Radio repeaters.

Again this year, a military station on the east coast and the Fort Huachuca,
Arizona, HF station will conduct a high-power broadcast on 60-meter channel 1
(5330.5 kHz) on Saturday from 0300 to 0315 UTC. New this year will be an
informational broadcast on Sunday, on 13483.5 kHz USB from 1600 to 1615 UTC.
Amateur Radio operators should monitor these broadcasts for more information
about the exercise and how they can participate in this communications
exercise, English said.

"We want to continue building on the outstanding cooperative working
relationship with the ARRL and the Amateur Radio community," English said. "We
want to expand the use of the 60-meter interop channels between the military
and amateur community for emergency communications, and we hope the Amateur
Radio community will give us some good feedback on the use of both the 5-MHz
interop and the new 13-MHz broadcast channels as a means of information
dissemination during a very bad day scenario."

Contact Paul English for more information or questions about this exercise via
email at, mars.exercises@gmail.com .

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