[MRCA] Camp Delta MRCG Det Alpha comms AAR - Sept 2018

[Tim]

We had a small but operational MRCG display at Camp Delta during the
September 20-23 rally of the Military Vehicle Collectors of California near
Lodi CA.

Andy brought his MRC-56 Navy G/A comm trailer, Alex had his PRC-47 and
GRR-5, I had a VRC-7 & 10 (yeah, I know..), GRC-9, TRC-77, PRC-25 and Tom's
PRC-6 all online.  Plus a TRC-88 and PRC-10 in non-op display.  HF antennas
were quarter wave, low inverted L's on 3550, 3985 and 7050 kc.

A few Camp ham stations were up on 51.00 and we had lots of curious
visitors over 4 days; the kids liked talking on the PRC-25.  Jerry was up
on 51.00 and had his SCR-284 going nearby and a nice TBY display as well.

Contacts included the MRCG AM net on Saturday night with the GRC-9; we had
good signals into SOCAL, but the band was *very *long by 2000, we could
barely even hear Jeff's rock crusher WRT-2 signal closer-in, Mark (further
away with 25 watts) was Q5, others about Q3.

We tried a post-AM net on 3985 USB but then realized we brought the wrong
PRC-47 which was set up for LSB.  Doh!!  Otherwise it would have worked
fine.  Next time...

Another notable "out station" CW contact was with the "home station"
(K6)KPH at the Maritime Historical Radio Society coast station KPH on the
3550 kc West Coast Agent Guard Channel.  We received a 599 report from Op
Mike at 1800 local time with the 10 watt TRC-77 and quarter wave wire.
They "Rogered" our request for a standard resupply pallet airdrop at DZ
(Drop Zone) Camp Delta for sunrise Sunday morning.  Interestingly, two
C-130's overflew our site several hours later, probably out of Travis AFB.
But no parachutes were seen, no loud thuds were heard.

Among the military vehicles present was a prehistoric armored vehicle
camped nearby...

Oh, and Alex's fantastic chow was great!  A good time was had by all..Some
pix attached:

No Shelf Queens! & 73 to all
Tim
N6CC & Crew
AR
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