[Milsurplus] Dayton Hamvention

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Ray,

I know people who have or had covid and some who have died. The actual
severity may be debatable. We will leave that to the politicians and
other discussion groups. Meanwhile we all have to deal with it.

On air radio activities is one way we can maintain 'social contact' just
as you have said. I am planning to do more field operations here too. Do
you use the dynamotors on your gear or do you use some other power
source for field operations? Enquiring minds want to know (at least
one). I don't have any dynamotors and will have to use solid-state
inverters instead. I dread having to drag a generator (alternator) set
on a field day.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:26:07 +0000
Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> Did not want to imply Covid being a hoax or not. It’s beyond my
> ability to speculate. The situation it has created is my gripe.
> 
> Perhaps the thing I enjoy most about working with this vintage
> military technology is the process of getting all the parts together,
> making them work and finally being able to go out into the field and
> put it into operation.
> 
> Regardless of it being a Ham Fest, Event like MRCA Gilbert where we
> have a split military vehicle show and radio event or events like the
> recent Able Archer 83 the ability to plan, deploy, set up and operate
> from a remote location give the chance to do all these things that
> the current environment takes away.
> 
> That’s my complaint, that’s my gripe.  I will leave the actions of
> the state, politicians and the clowns on TV up to everyone else.
> 
> At least I have been able to do a couple small events and things like
> working nets from the back yard, also have spent a lot of time in the
> last months learning Assembler programming for old NOVA/Rolm
> computers and building up and operating a RTTY system so that keeps
> me occupied.
> 
> Who knows, maybe this can be a reason to start learning something
> difficult like CW again and trying to master that?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>