[Milsurplus] MARS

[C.Whitaker]

de AFA3DJ  USAF MARS
a.k.a  WB2CPN in PA.
Been MARS since 1948.
Started at Andrews AFB and Pentagon.
    Worked phone calls from Okinawa,
    Japan, and Korea while stationed there.
Things change.  People change.
The advance of technology pretty well
    whacked MARS.  Budget cuts helped.
DRMO's closed.  Good stuff got routed
to our overseas "friends" without it going
    on the books.
The military communication equipment got
    so complicated that the average ham had
    no way to use it.  Cryptography messed up
    a lot of radios.
Sic Transit Gloria
73  Clete
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On 6/25/2012 4:12 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Too bad MARS completely stopped giving out equipment and parts.
> One would have needed to be in Army or Air Force MARS before
> the late 1960s to get and keep the really good stuff.  I was
> in Navy-MC MARS from 1968 to 1982, and Army MARS from
> 1982 to 1986.
>
> Navy-MC MARS always required any issued equipment to be
> returned when membership ended except for gear that had
> been authorized for cannibalization, which was rare.
>
> I got a few odds and ends (R-105/ARR-15, R-441A/SRR-13A,
> RT-196/PRC-6, AN/PRC-34, AN/PRC-36) during 1969 and 1970
> during which time I was devoting 25 hours per week on the
> nets.  But 1970 was the last time I was issued anything
> until I ended membership 16 years later.  USN MARS dropped
> accountability on just about everything that had been
> issued in the mid-1970s, and I never heard of any equipment
> issue afterward.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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