[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Dayton 2012

[Ray Fantini]

WA4VAG, Joe always has something special built up for Dayton. This year's SCR-274 wasn't the best looking display but as always it works. For the last six years he has never failed to amaze me in the different type of radios that he has used for net control and he is always there to provide a BC-611, DAV or MAB to people who are there and want to participate. In the past years he has operated the SCR-274, RCA AVT/AVR, BC-223/BC-312, TCS and GRC radios as net control. For me the 3885 and 51.0 nets are one of the highlights of the event and maybe the largest event of its kind when it comes to operation of field and pack military radios.

RF

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From: Dennis [mailto:spike.dennis at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:26 PM
To: Rob Flory; Ray Fantini
Cc: Military Radio Collectors Association; Military Surplus Mail List
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Dayton 2012

>That 51.0 Mc gang looks dangerous. 
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It's quite possible that Ray's Soviet set was the heaviest radio in use. My CPRC-510 would have come in close second. I thought I heard a PRC-16 that would have beat us both but I didn't see it.

Joe's net control station for the 3885 net(SCR-274) was operating into a a wire about 20ft long that approximated the antenna used on a P-40. We got a cell phone call about 1/2 way through the net, he was being heard in Cincinnati! The antenna was draped across my head most of the time. I suffered no ill effects except from the ground that bit my pinky finger a few times while keeping the log.

KB0SFP