[Milsurplus] MRCA meet

[b. smith]

Many thanks to the MRCA staff for organizing another meet. The rain produced
many obstacles and it was encouraging to see the precipitation
correction-correction- I mean participation. We had an excellent day on
Friday, it was hard to
decide whether to hang out with the MRCA guys or visit the massive Military
Vehicle Flea Market looking for Radio stuff. I personally walked away with a
nice portable military table, an RMI for my "flight deck", a half dozen
handsets, GRA-4 antennae kit, collins Amplified speaker(75F3) and lots of
minor items.

Friday afternoon as we were in convoy going up the very steep roads (paved)
to reach the Camelback Mount Crest , I started to notice that the Fog was
developing. Drawing on my vast weather training(I got a 71 on the weather
final exam in Aviation Cadets) I thought that it was strange that fog was
developing as the conditons were really not right . . . but it was then that
I realized that it was the bottoms of
the overcast cloud deck. . .We were entering the bottoms of the clouds and
we convoyed up the mountain.

Concerning the Field Exercise, I would say that it was probably one of the
strangest events that I have participated in. Gentlemen, I hate to say this
but we are working on the "edge" with that Field Event last Friday. And BTW
Dale KW1I gets the prize for bringing the most pieces of equipment to the
summit.
I am sure that pictures will be seen on the MRCA site in the near future.

I enjoyed my stay in the "Normal Bates"motel and particularity enjoyed my
navigational experience trying to find a bridge that was not closed in my
attempt to reach the MRCA site early Saturday morning. I now have a whole
new concept of mud slides.

I regret that I was unable to bore everyone with my 20 minutes lecture on
Radio Ranges with audio demos etc. But Al says to put it in the can and pull
it out next year.
All I can say is , it was the hard core folks that showed up. Ooorah.

73 breck k4che