The Department of Defense will host this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test, scheduled for May 9, 2026. This annual event is open to all licensed amateur radio operators and will not impact any public or private communications. For more than 50 years, military and amateur stations have taken part in this event, which is an interoperability exercise between hobbyist and government radio stations. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1br8zTRIaGV1jyxGpfoe4fmyzIlPC1RM5/view https://www.dodmars.org/mars-comex-information-website/armed-forces-day
I'm taking part in today's Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test. This requires "split" operation where ham operator listen on military (non-ham) frequencies, but respond on ham-band frequencies. I'm finding that QRZ.com will not allow me to log these contacts because the receive frequencies are outside the ham bands. I get an error dialog box. Is there some workaround to get QRZ.com to allow me to log the actual non-ham receive frequencies?
You might have a better response asking your question in https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?forums/qrz-logbook-user-forum.79/ . Good luck getting this sorted.
I participated in the test today - band conditions were pretty ugly. Of the relatively few stations I could hear I was able to only work 2 - NIIW and NSS. I was able to receive the DOD message at 1400Z and 2000Z, although not without errors in RTTY, from NIIW. I attempted to decode the MIL-110A part of the transmissions, but they wouldn't decode due to frame errors. Lots of QSB and noise, so I guess I should be happy with the 2 contacts. I've already submitted the QSL request.
BAND CONDITIONS FOR ME WERE NOT BAD. I CONTACTED 6 STATIONS WITH GOOD SIGNAL REPORTS. LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT TIME.
I was preparing to complete the online QSL form but it appears they have removed it. After only a week?
I tried to access the QSL request page today but I'm getting a message that says the form is no longer available? Was there a time limit on how long we had to make a request? I ended up making 4 contacts which I thought was pretty good considering the poor propagation.
I just checked the form, and it is showing that it is no longer accepting responses for me as well, so it does appear they have removed it.
