[MRCA] BC-342 and end of displays

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

You're missing the point, too.  Down in this neck of the woods, there is 
seldom much of a radio collector contingent.  At the last meet I was at back 
in March, there was plenty of working armor with working FM sets but the only 
vehicle with a working HF radio was the lone MZ-1.  I had in mind more 
along the lines of short wave broadcast stations, just to have something coming 
out of the speaker.  Mark is the one who brought up SSB, and jumped to the 
conclusion that he had to be able to talk to them.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 10/11/2017 08:11:56 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> This line of conversation appears to me to miss the point entirely. No 
> one wants to use a BC-654 to talk to other Hams on SSB, maybe CW but so what. 
> I have been doing nets on 3885 AM with WW2 radios and 51.0 FM with Cold 
> War radios in Dayton for over ten years now along with many operations at 
> events like MRCA at Gilbert and lots of other air shows and Ham fest and at 
> every event the object is to net with other radios of the same vintage at 
> that event. Only a fraction of the best attempt to do communications beyond 
> line of sight. Events like Archer Able are good examples of a military to Ham 
> consumer event. But most of the shows I have been at they only want to 
> talk to the other vehicles at the show and a mode like SSB is pointless.
> 
>  At the G-Town Air Show this last weekend I had the mutt set up along with 
> a bunch of other military vehicle people. I usually try to do the Moose &
> Squirrel Net from remote events on Saturdays but when I do this I tend to 
> drive a little away from the activity and set up for the net and return 
> afterwards but I cannot recall ever seeing anyone during a vehicle event setting 
> up and doing a regular Ham QSO.
> 
>   
> 
>  Ray F/KA3EKH   
> 
>   
> 
>  From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On Behalf Of WA5CAB--- via MRCA
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:23 AM
> To: mkdorney at aol.com
> Cc: mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] BC-342 and end of displays
> 
>   
> 
>  I didn't say that it worked great, just that it worked.  And I didn't 
> necessarily mean that you had to be in 2-way communication with the SSB 
> stations.  What I said was that there is always something to listen to, if for no 
> other reason than to show that the radio actually works to people walking 
> by.  For actual 2-way communications with an SSB station on the other end 
> of the circuit, you will with the BC-654 have to switch back and forth 
> between AM and CW.  If just listening, you can always turn off the breakers in 
> the PE-103.  Enforcing radio silence is one of their functions.
> 
> Plus, the BC-654 is the only common HF set I can think of where the 
> receiver and transmitter share a common mode switch.
> 
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
> 
> In a message dated 10/10/2017 21:15:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> mkdorney at aol.com writes: 
> 
> 
> 
> >> Well that's great for monitoring, I suppose, but it's not so good if 
>> you want to transmit voice ( it's impossible to do in CW mode).  Not to 
>> mention the constant operation of the PE-103 when the BC-654 is operating in 
>> CW-mode.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark
>> WW2RDO
>> 
>> 
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