[MRCA] Nearfest AAR

[MilComm Guy]

I departed at 0300 Friday morning, drove straight through, fuel stops only
and arrived at 0900 at gate opening.  The only way to describe the line and
crowd waiting to get in is chaos, the lower lot was full and the line was 4
lanes wide.  I located the MRCA group and Dale had a spot saved, thanks
Dale.

I made a few initial tours of the site, only saw 2 PRC sets, a 6 and 10,
only 1 VRC set a R-442, 1 GRC-9 w/power supply-no cables and was being
purchased, 2 sad looking T195's(sold)waiting to be picked up(still there
Saturday), 1 R-392 w/mount being carried by a golf cart, several ART-13's,
several BC-348's, a SCR set in the field chest and other ratty looking WWII
stuff I know nothing about, 1 collins radio in the suitcase(KWM2A ?), a
PRC-74 set up as an operating station, unknown who it was, one of those 3
piece black box spy radio's that looked clean, some command radio sets and
dynamotors that again I know nothing about but looked ratty.

A few more rounds produced no new finds, I purchased a new AT-1011 top
section, a AT-271 and a nice looking/clean PRC-320 pack, that was all I
found to purchase.  Saturday the place was a ghost town, if someone
traveled a long distance I felt sorry for them, lots of vendors had already
packed and left Friday night, and saw very few new ones Saturday.  I
departed just after 1100 and arrived home 1718, again straight through only
stopping for fuel, about 600 miles round trip.

It was nice to meet Tom and Glen in the flesh for the first time, and see
the regulars as well.  Checked in the M&S net around Manchster NH while
mobile, thank you for the good signal reports.  I have some severe ignition
noise with the M886 and rx was difficult.

Thanks to the MRCA gang and enjoyed all your company.

73
Mark
K1HF
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