Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test
May 10
Bulletin Message:
The Department of Defense will host this year’s Armed Forces Day (AFD)
Crossband Test, scheduled for May 10, 2025. 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.
The AFD Crossband Test is a unique opportunity to test two-way
communications between military communicators and radio stations in the
Amateur Radio Service (ARS), as authorized in 47 CFR 97.111. These tests
provide opportunities and challenges for radio operators to demonstrate
individual technical skills in a tightly controlled exercise scenario that
does not impact any public or private communications.
Military stations will transmit on selected military frequencies and will
announce the specific ARS frequencies monitored. All times are ZULU (Z),
and all frequencies are Upper Side Band (USB) unless otherwise noted. The
frequencies used for the test will not impact any public or private
communications and will not stray outside the confines of the exercise.
Link to full PDF document with times, frequencies & modes below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hEjZUCmTzWNGXNI8ov_xJjqJKTEJhsuG/view?uspó=sharing