[MRCA] Noble Skywaves last thoughts

[Ray Fantini]

Would be fun to do a cross band thing between Ham and Military, did try once or twice but maybe it's because I did not understand the concept or the clock was never successful. Think there is an annual event that concedes with Aberdeen MVPA and may have tried there once or twice with no love.
Thought sixty meters was a shared band between government and Ham with Ham on a secondary bias? Wonder why existing government agencies cannot do simple simplex type operations on those channels?
I obviously don't know or understand what it is that MARS has accomplishes or has as a mission today, maybe as an auxiliary or something to support the government but would have thought that there is a value in keeping active duty assets skilled in networking with NGO types.
I do remember the old days when as a kid would head over to the MARS station on base and listen to the phone patches they would run and the other service men who used the facilities as a club station and somehow always thought of the MARS function falling more under Moral and Welfare then anything mission critical.
This was back in the seventies before the days of phone cards and text messaging, wonder if anyone has run a phone patch in the past decade?
Too bad about Noble Skywave only being open to quasi professional or superior Ham operators, but if nothing else keeps people like me from getting involved.

Ray F/KA3EKH


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