[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Upcoming Events

[Ray Fantini]

Its last years info but think it will be the same or at least very similar this year:

http://www.mrca.ar88.net/Fall_Meet/fall_meet.html

Last year on Friday night we had a backpack - portable net on 144.25 and 5.357  Although it not a handheld and about being portable is questionable I drove the mutt out to the edge of the fair grounds so we had two base stations in operation during the net for both frequencies. Used the AN/GRC-106  for HF and a AN/URC-110 for VHF.
Think we had at least two or three URC-4 active that night.

Ray F/KA3EKH



From: Paul Sokoloff <dogfaces at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2022 9:05 PM
To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; MMRCG at groups.io; mrca at mailman.qth.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MRCA] Upcoming Events


I have an ARC-4 and a type -12  2 meter radios to bring and wondering if anyone will be operating on those frequencies?

Thanks,  Paul  WA3GFZ


On 07/22/2022 3:45 PM Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu<mailto:rafantini at salisbury.edu>> wrote:


We are two months away from the annual Red Ball MVPA Show and Sale up in Gilbert PA. For a number of years MRCA has been hosting a get together at that event. Military Radio has its own dedicated building and in addition to showing one of your prize radio projects a large amount of military radio operating takes place that weekend.
Being two months out maybe we can look at what type of exercises and what bands we want to use for this year?
Past years have included low powered HF AM backpack nets on 3885 along with a VHF AM handheld net on 144.25 around the fairgrounds, extended operation with higher powered backpack and vehicle mounted sets from Beltsville State Park all the way over to Pocono State Park running eighty meters AM. CW, sixty meters USB voice and six meters FM as a coordination and control channel.
I have the MUTT, the self-propelled GRC-106 along with my backpacks all ready to go and was wondering if we would be attempting to do anything different this year?
I am thinking of a RTTY net? Perhaps with a full size teleprinter back at NCS in the Howell building? Or maybe a DF event Friday evening? We had a Frequency Measurement challenge back in 2016 and that was popular.
Any ideas out there?

Pictures and information on the 2019 event:
http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/MRCA19.htm

Link to the MRCA Home page:
http://www.mrca.ar88.net/<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrca.ar88.net%2F&data=05%7C01%7Crafantini%40salisbury.edu%7C18e13b4cfc714c8b58a808da6c4773b0%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C637941351400338371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KdYldglD6%2FHLE%2FC7%2Bi8ZoREahiRWmRKcJk6sul%2BWmyk%3D&reserved=0>


And if that's not enough to get people out and play radio in the field coming up October 22nd/23rd is the annual Able Archer 83 event at Historic Fort Milles, Cape Henlopen State Park Delaware where we will be operating Cold War era radio equipment from the fort.  Think one of the goals for that event is a full size RTTY station with a TT-4 if I can find one.

Official web site for AA-83:
https://sites.google.com/site/ablearcher1983w3a/home<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fablearcher1983w3a%2Fhome&data=05%7C01%7Crafantini%40salisbury.edu%7C18e13b4cfc714c8b58a808da6c4773b0%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C637941351400338371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BIEcyByCu%2BuOw1wlbIWJ4b6pXD8Cfa1l3uCtjHWzvVY%3D&reserved=0>


Ray F/KA3EKH
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