[MRCA] April 29 Fort Miles

[B. Smith]

    Wow I am a WWII vintage expert, did you hear that Dave, Mike ,Mark, 
Jack, Jeep,AL, Robert and the list goes on :-)
You gonna send out APRS enroute, I could plot both tracks.
Z

On 4/3/2017 11:55 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> On April 29, a Saturday I am planning on setting up the self-propelled 
> AN/GRC-106 AKA M151A1 or “mutt” at Cape Henlopen State Park in 
> Delaware. Intend to do the usual M&S Net operation from that location 
> at noon but was wondering if there was any interest in running an 
> additional Net before or after in cooperation with the Fort Milles 
> Museum Open House event and maybe doing something like getting one or 
> two other coastal defense facilities up and on the air? Battery 519 
> once controlled Battery 223 over in Cap May NJ, maybe we can establish 
> a communications link to that battery? Or something like Fort Mott on 
> the Delaware Bay or some location more distant?
>
> For shooting just across the bay I can do a good 51.0 FM simplex with 
> the VRC-12 and the log periodic, anything further away can be done 
> over HF simplex maybe using 60 meters being will already be up there 
> or perhaps twenty or seventeen meters being they are easy to work with 
> the 106. Can do forty or eighty meters but limited to USB only.
>
> If there is any interest in playing around with this sort of idea 
> maybe next year we can plan for a full size event but this year just 
> wanted to see if we can throw something together at the last minute. 
> The mind only wonders at the thought of countless ways of wasting time 
> and resources! Maybe setting up an AN/TRC-1 system between Delaware 
> and NJ and running multipole telephone channels? We can tie the world 
> of field wire and radio together, 6think of the possibilities not to 
> mention actually using the TRC stuff for its intend function.
>
> You can see the web page for their event at:
>
> http://fortmilesha.org/2017/03/30/fort-miles-museum-open-house/
>
> Although this is primarily a WW2 them event think this year they are 
> allowing people like me to be set up on the side. Others who are 
> expert at WW2 vintage like K4CHE will be closer to the center of 
> activates with their equipment. I am more a “Cold War” person but try 
> to take any opportunity to take the mutt out and play with it.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
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