Frequencies, Rules and Procedures for Maritime Radio Day 2016

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Maritime Radio Day is approaching!!

***Last day for registering is April 10th at midnight***

You can download the complete list of partecipants on the following page where are listed alphabetically all stations subscribed…click on : http://www.seefunk-fx-intern.de/mrdaward/mrdaward.php

All traffic must to be done around the following International Naval Frequencies on Amateur Radio Bands (morse code)

1824 kHz

3520 kHz

7020 kHz

10118 kHz

14052 kHz

21052 kHz

28052 kHz

The Main working frequency considering the high participation of many stations from USA, VK and ZL area is 14052 kHz plus or minus some kc/s

WARC bands are no considered for MRD with exception of 30 meters band.

– Date: 14th April 12.00 GMT 15th April 22.00 GMT

– Bands: 160m, 80m, 40m, 30 m, 20m, 15m & 10m

– Mode: CW only

– Power: not limited

– QSO: Exchange QSA, QRK, name, callsign of last or favorite ship / aircraft / maintance company        QSA 1 .. 5, strength of receive signal QRK 1 .. 5, readability and additionally a tr, msg and/or a qtc if you like

– Silence Periods: need no longer be observed

– Deadline for submission of MRD logs is 1st of May.

– Certificate of participation ( CoP): SWL’s – send a complete log to be able to verify qso data by selection. Licenced operators – send a postcard / letter or e-mail with number of QSOs with – ship stations – coast stations – special stations – other Amateurs contacted. Send your application with data and your email address to :

Rolf Marschner, Narzissenweg 10, 53359 Rheinbach – Germany or via e-mail: dl9cm@t-online.de Certificate is only available by e-mail!

– QSL cards: Each participant manages their own QSL cards. There is no QSL manager.

– General Comment: Coastal radios and ship’s callsigns should be operated only by former Commercial or Navy operators and from radio technicians who worked in the brand of installation and in the maintenance of coastal and ship’s radios equipments and antennas.

“Procedure” Example QSO :

cq mrd cq mrd cq mrd de dl9cm dl9cm dl9cm k dl9cm de ik6ijf gm rolf QSA5 QRK 5 hr is alfredo shipname/icjr or last ship was icjr k

ik6ijf de dl9cm gm alfredo QSA 5 QRK 5 op rolf shipname/dlcm or last ship was dlcm ik6ijf de dl9cm tnx 73 .-.-

or put details in a telegram like this : Origin nr xx ck zz date time = address = qsa x qrk y shipname call = signature+ or similar The above are only examples . You may send different content, but the least you must include are QSA, name, ship call sign or number! To subscribe free your partecipation at the next Martime Radio Day send an e-mail to R/O Rolf MARSCHNER: dl9cm@t-online.de or automatically subscription is possible on the following website: http://www.seefunk-fx-intern.de/mrdaward/mrd_registry.php

***Last day for registering is April 10th at midnight***