[Milsurplus] Opps from field/home

[Ray Fantini]

I have a ARC-38 that I run on 3885 and use it the first of the month to check into the AM version of the MMRCG Net on 7296, just have a hard time trying to get up for the ORMN net at that early in the morning!

Did have a good QSO with another Ham on 3885 over in central NJ using the MAK, the receiver is fairly broad but sensitive and the 12A6 audio output stage is designed to use a low impedance speaker so listening is not that bad. There is a receiver front end tuning control that you peak for noise when changing channel and you can back that down when QRM is bad and that helps but think a lot of that early Marine AM stuff was somewhat wide by design to accommodate for radios being a little off frequency.
Think I paid like fifty or sixty bucks for that radio out in Dayton and it had never been put into service but did come with all four channels for receive and transmit.
One set of rocks was for 3155 and somehow have seen a lot of crystals for that for TCS and DAV/MAB transceivers so that must have been a popular channel, never saw any crystals for 2182 and would have assumed that would be a popular frequency being a international distress frequency?

Ray F/KA3EKH



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