[MRCA] Gilbert 2022 AAR

[B. Smith]

Its amazing how many 524's show up at meets. One year a vendor was 
selling them for 25 to 50 bucks but not working and the vehicle folks 
just bought them for display, I offered to strip them for $10 bucks and 
got all the insides and power supplies. Fixed a lot of sets for several 
members.  Now have two sets in the operations center , one on 51 and the 
other on 29.4. But in my opinion it is a terrible set with MTBF of 5 to 
10 hours.
Z


On 9/24/2022 2:53 PM, MilComm Guy wrote:
> Left Wednesday night 10pm local, arrived Thursday 0900am with no 
> travel issues, Bernie beat me to it and was pretty much set up with 
> his Clansman display and M151A1.  Friday afternoon was radio play 
> time, Ray in the field and Al back at HQ, both did a great job.  Flea 
> market was full of vendors and plenty to see, I am going to make 2022 
> the official year of the RT-524 at Gilbert, I have never seen so many 
> for sale, there was one or more at every corner.  I did not see the 
> WWII radio stuff for sale like there usually is, every year has it's 
> own flavor. The weather was cold and very windy, hard to keep you hat 
> on windy, and of course the usual heavy rain on Thursday.  I had 
> planned to leave on Saturday morning but by Friday night I had seen 
> and done what I wanted to.  Left around 5pm and arrived home Saturday 
> morning at 522am, about 1300 miles round trip. Would have been home 2 
> hours earlier but I got stuck in late night construction in NY and CT.
>
> Big thanks to all who make Gilbert a success.
> 73
> Mark
> K1HF
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> more to follow....
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