[MRCA] MRCA Feild Exercise

Sat, 08 Jun 2002 13:18:06 -0400

Hi Pete,

I was good to hear you on the air as well.  I hope we
stirred up some interest.  It did seem like we shook a
number of field sets out of the bushes and on to the air
this morning.  I was pleasantly surprised how well I was
heard.  The GRC-9 is designed to end feed an approximately
1/2-wave wire in the "REEL" position, so even a sloppy
inverted-V has the high-current parts up in the air and
,coincidentally, doesn't need much of a ground..

Thanks for the input on freq's and modes.  I'm not really
familiar with exactly how 75M works in broad daylight.  I'm
assuming if we had near line-of-sight, out to 10 miles or
so, we'd be ok with the 5-watt sets on decent antennas. Many
of my sites involve taking the high ground. At the last
meet, I worked N3RZU's rice-box mobile out to about a mile
with the MAB and 6-ft whip.  I'll establish some short range
tasks for 611/MAB/pogo-stick types. Anyway, I think 75 will
be the principal band.  We should pretty much have it to
ourselves.

I'm planning on setting up a number of missions with varying
profiles, and just running the ones we have people and
equipment to support.

I'm mostly thinking in terms of voice:  My morse is
abysmal.  But, there are some neat sets that are CW only.  I
don't think it will be difficult to accommodate.

I'm looking for someone with a VRC-12 or such to act as a 6M
basestation if PRC-xx's show up.

Peter & Edie Hamersma wrote:
> 
> Hi Al,
> 
> Good to hear you on the net this morning your GRC 9 was strong here in
> central NH.
> 
> I think 75 meters is best for tactical radio exercises. Radios like the BC
> 474, BC1306 and BC654 don't cover 40 meters. 75 is the only amateur band
> these sets cover. AM is better than CW as it also allows the BC 611's and
> MAB's in as well not to mention not all of us are the best CW ops. Lets pick
> modes and frequencies that allow the greatest participation.
> 
> Pete, WB2JWU
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Al Klase <[email protected]>
> To: MRCA REFLECTRO <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:42 PM
> Subject: [MRCA] MRCA Feild Exercise
> 
> > We're in the planing stages for a ham-radio field exercise
> > to be conducted at the 2002 Military Radio Collectors
> > Association meet on Friday, 6 September 2002 at Gilbert,
> > Pa.  This will involve dispatching teams equipped with
> > military field radios, perhaps in vintage military vehicles,
> > to remote locations, and then conducting a traffic net to
> > gather "intelligence."
> >
> > The meet area is rural and should be conducive to this sort
> > of event.  The terrain is interesting and should allow us to
> > make good use of both HF and VHF gear.
> >
> > We need to get a feel for how may people are interested in
> > participating, and what sort of equipment they would like to
> > bring and operate.
> >
> > Some finer questions:
> >
> > Freq's:  Will all the HF gear hit 40M?
> > Modes:  AM vs. CW. Any interest in vintage SSB on PRC-47's
> > etc.? Of course VHF would be FM.
> >
> > So please speak up. (I CAN'T HEAR YOU!)
> >
> > 73,
> > Al
> >
> > --
> > Al Klase - N3FRQ
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> > Flemington, NJ 08822
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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Flemington, NJ 08822
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