[MRCA] [MMRCG] Operation Able Archer '83 W3A (2022 Edition)

[Ray Fantini]

That site is just steeped in history, Battery 519 just down the road from where we do the AA83 stuff is the home of the Fort Miles Historic Association, they have their restored bunker along with fourteen-inch gun, plotting room and gift shop along with an artillery park that includes things like one of the sixteen-inch guns from the Missouri. Every April they do an annual "Delaware Goes to War" event and although it's a WW2 themed event we have a local group of military vehicle collectors and we set up right outside the perimeter with our newer vehicles. For the past several years have set up and operated M&S and MMRCG Nets at that event with the mutt.
You can see the mutt parked outside in the lot where we usually operate from during AA83 at the bottom of this web page:

http://staff.salisbury.edu/~rafantini/Hagerstown22.htm


Ray F/KA3EKH



From: MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> On Behalf Of Nick K4NYW via groups.io
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Fort Miles was also home to Naval Radio Station Lewes which was a UHF tropo-scatter link to USS Wright and USS Northampton, the communications ships that took turns standing off the Atlantic coast serving as NECPA - National Emergency Command Post Afloat.
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On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 6:14 AM Walter J. Skavinsky (KB3SBC) <Kb3sbc at comcast.net<mailto:Kb3sbc at comcast.net>> wrote:
"History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes" - Mark Twain
The 11th Operation Able Archer '83 will be held on 22 Oct 2022 at 1200 hrs UTC thru 23 Oct 2022 at 1700 hrs UTC.   Ray KA3EKH has once again secured a historic Cold War site.  The operation will be from  Fort Miles, Lewes, DE.  Fort Miles is the home of a cold war home of  Naval Facility Lewes (NAVFAC Lewes), a Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS)<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FSOSUS%26sa%3DD%26sntz%3D1%26usg%3DAOvVaw3t674a4GgfmwJxg1y1Rgc_&data=05%7C01%7CRAFANTINI%40salisbury.edu%7C610c55d6a7644a748a6908daa796aaa5%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C638006564053552329%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=H4mKZuEL8vxK3m2shW9v7z2p2zKu8sOxRQTxGoHoIJs%3D&reserved=0> shore terminal.

Operation will be on 29.65 mc FM, 51.00 mc FM, 75 & 40, 20,18,10 meters USB, RTTY at 7087mc on  COLD WAR military radio equipment.  The callsign for this event is W3A.

A significant amount of resources and additional information is available on the web page www.ablearcher83.com<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ablearcher83.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7CRAFANTINI%40salisbury.edu%7C610c55d6a7644a748a6908daa796aaa5%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C638006564053552329%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wPaNV0T%2B9tpVFPJEx7dSrKB%2Fsq1ZBGRh56bjuKtS1cU%3D&reserved=0>.There has been some extra information added to the page. (remember to hit refresh F5).  There will be some live streams from the site available on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/AblerArcher83. <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2FAblerArcher83&data=05%7C01%7CRAFANTINI%40salisbury.edu%7C610c55d6a7644a748a6908daa796aaa5%7C2472f1faf24f421badd7b01c4b49be07%7C0%7C0%7C638006564053552329%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KciOk42n0hMY73GnO2SeXUAQED5id8tHVQZb62gXVf8%3D&reserved=0>
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