[MRCA] 2018 MRCA Meet Announcement

Thu Aug 30 13:26:47 EDT 2018

All those first generation FM sets were 40 or more KHz deviation, with all the newer sets that are in use in the cold War Net at Dayton being built around 15 and 20 KHz deviation they have issues copying the old WW2 stuff and there always is someone using a Ham hand held with its piss week 5 KHz deviation that won’t come close to copying the Korean stuff no less that super wide band WW2 radios.
I think we will be able to net your WW2 stuff with my Russian set being its fairly wide band, at least looking forward to it.
Just let me know if you’re going to be there and running it or not on Friday otherwise I won’t be dragging the R-107 along.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: mkdorney at aol.com [mailto:mkdorney at aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 12:23 PM
To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
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Subject: Re: [MRCA] 2018 MRCA Meet Announcement

       When I get the BC-1000 going, it's always operated on listening silence.  I keep radio operations on the up and up, and don't transmit on frequencies I'm not supposed to be on.  I can listen to first responders on the BC-1000, and do understand that It is a complicated radio to work on.
       The BC-659/SCR-610 is a two trick pony ( rock operated, 2 frequencies), and is a pretty simple radio to work on. No seventy year old radio has aged all that well, but some are easier to repair than others.   Also, the BC-659 may not work with more modern FM sets - to really test the set, you need another BC-659.  Power supplies may be just as big a culprit to operation problems with this radio, and the BC-620/SCR-510. I highly recommend the Italian internal battery replacement for this radio or the chances of the radio not working are increased.  A dead internal battery also makes the set non-operable.

73
Mark
WW2RDO

In a message dated 8/30/2018 11:45:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu<mailto:RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> writes:

I have not had opportunity to ever own or operate a SCR-610/BC-659 and only limited experience with the BC-1000 but somehow want to speculate that those sets did not age very well. The SCR-610 installations have all gone to the level of crazy money these days to where I have seen them for as much as $700 to $1000 depending on what’s with them and the ones I have seen installed in vehicles don’t appear real reliable. Likewise that I have always thought anyone who can drag out a BC-1000 that’s working has also in my mind done something that’s not easy to do. Known too many who brought them out and somehow they always develop some issue in the field.
Don’t know if it’s because all the radios are first generation FM sets where the manufactures had little experience to go on or if it’s just that the sets are now are all pushing seventy years old but somehow have to say that anyone who has any of that first generation stuff up and running in the field has to be the man in my book and I would consider it a privilege to net with that old stuff.
My VRC-12 wont operate down that low but I have a Russian R-107 that I will bring out if you are going to be running your wide band WW2 FM sets.

Ray F/KA3EKH

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Subject: Re: [MRCA] 2018 MRCA Meet Announcement

        I'm looking to maybe bring a BC-654 I already have restored for operation on Friday.  The vehicle mount isn't going to be removed from the WC, but I do have a second PE-103 and legs for the transceiver. I can use the mast antenna if I have to, but there is an AN-101 in the kit, and that antenna would be preferable.  There is also a working BC-659, set to operate on 29.6 and 29.1 MHz FM, but the range isn't all that great.  I'll also be looking for the two binding posts to restore a second BC-654 I'm working on:  the restoration of that radio goes on the back burner until that happens.    I also have unmodified operational BC-1000 ( with a 1945 dated PP-114 power supply) and BC-611 transceivers, but the former don't work on frequencies we can use, and the later have such a short range as to be not of much use.

      The ultimate goal is to get more more military vehicle owners to buy and restore the military radios, and to get licensed to use them legally.   These radios sets have to be electrically complete and working in order to interest the average MV owner.  As a rule, about the only thing most of these folks know how to do is turn a set on and off, and they don't generally have the patience to put together a radio set piece by piece.  Of course, they are going to have to pay more for a complete, working set.  We all know that is putting a complete vintage radio set together is getting increasingly difficult as this stuff gets older, and complete sets get parted out, mostly to us true believers.  There's also a distinct buzz kill when when radio owner tells an interested visitor who is amazed that their old radios work that actually, a modern radio was placed in the old radio casing.  To a true believer, that's about as exciting as kissing your sister.

73
Mark
WW2RDO

"Real Radios Glow Inside"

In a message dated 8/30/2018 10:07:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, kw1i at earthlink.net<mailto:kw1i at earthlink.net> writes:

The MRCA Meet will again be at the West End Fairgrounds in Gilbert, PA on Sept 21,22 (set up on Sept.20).  As usual our meet is concurrent with the Red Ball Military Transport Club Annual Rally and Swap Meet.

Please plan to bring some treasure from your military radio stash to demo and display in the Howell Bldg.  Remember to bring your own table, chair, camo netting, sandbags, etc.  Don’t forget to put a fresh charge in your pack set and field radio batteries.  Plan to do an on air set up of your portable stations at home before you come to make sure you don’t forget some important component.  There will be a opportunity for comm ops for AM and CW field sets, so bring them along.   More details about the event will be available via this reflector and the MRCA website (http://www.mrca.ar88.net/) in the near future.

If you plan to arrive on during set up Thursday afternoon please be ready to present a Set Up Gate pass which can be downloaded from the MRCA website.

Please send an email to kw1i at earthlink.net<mailto:kw1i at earthlink.net> if you plan to come this year so the badge production department can get a head-start.

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