[MRCA] problems owning/buying rare radios

[Rob Flory]

Eugene and Friends,

I have always loved Al's mantra, "one heartbeat away from a wheel chock".

By mostly sticking to the WWII stuff, I have kept it all in the repairable
category, but limited myself pretty hard in interoperability.  I'm missing
all the fun on the Moose and Squirrel, and the packsets look so fun!  The
only thing I have that resembles a packset needs three buddies to carry
their parts of the set, and I don't have all the fragile canvas anyway.  If
I fired that thing up on 60m CW  I would likely receive a citation.

If you look at your stuff as toys and not investments, you will wring your
hands less.  If you don't need to get the money back out, why not get the
toy?

I would love to see some future wheel chocks working SSB at the History
Fair.  Between Moose and Squirrel and chasing the military stations, it
could be a lot of fun.  I'll arrange for the necessary antennas if anyone
wants to bring something.

The military crossband test brings me to the question of split frequency
operation in packsets and vehicle sets.  How many rigs can do that trick?
On SSB?

Rob