[Milsurplus] RE: Field Day

[Sheldon Daitch]

Fort Monmouth, 1969, 32D Fixed Station Facilities Controller Course.

73
Sheldon

n2lxm at juno.com wrote:

>Greetings All,
>
>        While we did not run any Milsurplus at our field day site, we
>were in the middle of an Army Post. Using the post Radio Club Call Sign "
>K2USA , Fort Monmouth, NJ ". During the twenty four hours of Field day we
>were happy to hear stations telling us  " that there were at the Signal
>school in 19XX ". It made us happy to hear from former Signal School
>Students and Instructors. We ran Class 1A CW and SSB at 100 watts, into a
>1000 foot Loop at 75 feet, feed with 450 Ohm latter Line to a Tuner. The
>CW rig was an Old Kenwood 440 and the SSB rig was a Yaesu FT-990. we are
>hoping next year to put some Good Old Collins Gear into the mix just to
>keep things different. We all had fun and it brought back memories of our
>time in the service. Hope to hear you all next year.
>
>
>                                Jeff N2LXM
>                  AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
>                                AMERICAN
>                                  PATRIOT
>                  Proud Father of two US MARINES
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