[MRCA] OMRN/Phone

[Ray Fantini]

Back at the Blue and Gray MVPA Show in Hagerstown last May worked WAR at the Pentagon several time on 5357 being that’s one of the channels that’s available to both Ham and military during the annual military cross band event. The advantage to using sixty meters was you did not have to do a cross band operation.
Had a couple other Hams and served as control operator for several veterans during the event and WAR cycled thru several operators on their end during the day. Think they liked the idea that it was a station set up at a MVPA Show running military equipment from a M151
Hard to imagine your son being grown and in the corps, remember him and my one daughter running all around the Howell building.

Both MRCA M&S Net and the MMRCG 7.296 Net take place on Saturday and are fairly regular although propagation has sucked lately. Don’t know about the 3885 Net being that I cant get inspired to get up that early and somehow always regarded 80 meters as the “Band of the Gas Bags” with 3885 heavily populated with people who want to talk for hours and say nothing, but maybe that’s just me.

Will have a bucket full of activity during the Gilbert event in a couple weeks, short and long range. Thin the web site is up to date for that.

http://www.mrca.ar88.net/Fall_Meet/fall_meet.html

Ray F/KA3EKH




From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rob Flory
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2022 5:48 AM
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Subject: [MRCA] OMRN/Phone


My son, who used to attend MRCA events with me at Gilbert and InfoAge, is now in USMC communications.

He recently told me that his colleagues on the radio side want to work me on the air with my old stuff.  I had the idea that maybe I could give them a shout out on OMRN/Phone as they listened to all the other cool old radios.

I tuned in briefly this morning and was reminded that the net sounds too much like regular operations on 3885,  "solder to talk", long pauses during transmissions, old buzzard-style detailed stories about unrelated topics, etc. etc.

Ain't no 20-something wants to listen to that.

Anyone have a suggestion for an alternative way to reach this natural pool of future MRCA members?

73, K2WI
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