[MRCA] BC-342 and end of displays

[MKDORNEY at aol.com]

What's the sense of getting a license and  getting the radio fixed so you 
can operate if all you're going  to do is listen?  You don't need a licence 
to listen, and for atmosphere  at displays, a hidden MP3 player will do the 
job better than a working radio,  and for a lot less cost and aggravation.  
The idea is to get people to  get their radios working, and to get them on 
the air, keeping in mind that  with most vehicle owners, the vehicle is their 
main area  of interest.
 
Mark
WW2RDO


 
 
In a message dated 10/12/2017 4:06:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mrca at mailman.qth.net writes:

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
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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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