[MRCA] MRCA Gilbert

[Al Klase]

Dave,

Come on down!  You seem to have all the right tendancies.

VY 73,
Al

On 9/5/2019 4:36 PM, David Olean wrote:
>
> I am new to this MRCA and want to make the trip to Gilbert. I have a 
> few items that I have been restoring, namely WW2 aircraft radios, but 
> nothing yet that I can use on the air.  My main reason for going is to 
> meet people and see all that is on display. I was in the signal corps  
> US Army from 1968 to 1971 and had much fun with RT-524s.  I had my own 
> in an M-151 jeep. Our signal battalion had  GRC-26Ds, lots of GRC-19s, 
> VHF gear included TRC-24s that operated on A and C band 50-100, and 
> 225-400 MHz.  We started using GRC-106s while I was there, and I had 
> my own personal "ham rig" called a MRC-95. It was a pair of Collins 
> 618Ts with antenna tuners 400 Hz supplies and remote control units.  
> Anyway, I am going to Gilbert and hope to meet a bunch of folks. Maybe 
> next year I will have a working transmitter?  I plan to be there for 
> Friday and Saturday at least.
>
>
> 73
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
>
>
> 9/5/2019 2:06 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
>> What are some of the plans for Gilbert? Getting close, just decided 
>> to splurge and spent $60 on a trailer brake controller for the mutt 
>> carrier and am having thoughts about what besides the self propelled 
>> GRC-106 is going to make the trip.
>>
>> Figure the MAK has to go, want to try to use that to QSO with the 
>> local 3885 stuff and just generally show it off. What are the rest of 
>> you thinking? Hope we can do a large scale Beltsville Lake field 
>> operation like last year. May try to do a pack radio and stomp off 
>> into the woods or something if I can con Walt into running the stuff 
>> in the mutt again.
>>
>> We had a dozen different stations operating from all parts of the 
>> lake last year. With the mutt as NCS it can accommodate any mode on 
>> HF, six meter FM via the VRC-43 or VHF AM or FM on the URC. The issue 
>> is not NCS but the limitations of pack sets, I know my PRC will only 
>> do 5.357 or 3.885 Almost makes you want to go out and get something 
>> that can QSY 3885 last year had a lot of outside activity but 60 
>> meters and the VHF 51.0 or any other VHF channels were clear.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
>> Ray F/KA3EKH
>>
>>
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Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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