[Milsurplus] Nets at Xenia/Dayton

[Nick England]

Ray is planning ahead
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We are seven weeks out from the Hamvention in Xenia Ohio.  By now would
assume that everyone knows about the annual Military Radio Nets that take
place on that Saturday. This year will be no different with the 3885 AM WW2
Low power and backpack net at 1200 hours local and the 51.0 FM Cold War
backpack and handheld net at 1400 hours local.



The 3885 WW2 Net features everything from BC-611 to SCR-284, GRC-9 and has
often includes sets like the DAV/MAB, TBX, TCS and newer radios including
things along the line of GRC-19 and later production military radio sets
running AME. That Net will on the average have about twenty to thirty
stations taking part with a small number of some stations running
commercial (Ham) equipment.

I will be dragging one of the SCR-284/BC-654 sets that I have just finished
working over and have that set up at the MMRCG pavilion, spaces 7740 to 7743

The 51.0 Cold War Net will be radios like the PRC-6, PRC-10, RT-70, PRC-25
and 77 with a good representation of older sets from the BC-1000 to newer
SINGARS sets. We will also have a good showing of German, Russian and the
last couple years captured Iraqi radios.

Being wide band FM it’s not as attractive to the nonmilitary crowd but we
have accommodated the narrower banded sets in the past.

In past years we have had over forty stations take part in this net, it’s
one of the few opportunities you get to net with lots of other military
sets.

We have also played around with the idea of additional nets on 5357 USB and
144.250 AM.

I intend to work the MMRCG nets on 7296 and the 7087 RTTY Net from the
Hamvention.

Maybe we can have a Friday or Saturday night net on 5357 not necessarily at
the Hamvention but from the field in and around Xenia?

We have time to plan and get hardware together so let’s see what people are
thinking.



de KA3EKH
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