[MRCA] Gilbert meet September 22-23

Tue Aug 1 21:09:36 EDT 2023

Maybe some one will break the URC-4 distance record. (Top of the 
mountain back to Home Plate)
Z

On 7/31/2023 3:25 PM, Anthony Clare wrote:
> Your mention of 2 meter AM has got me thinking about the two 3A5s that i have
> floating around here somewhere.
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:58:24 AM EDT
> From: Ray Fantini<RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> To: Al Klase<ark at ar88.net>,"mrca at mailman.qth.net"  <mrca at mailman.qth.net>,
> "MMRCG at groups.io"  <MMRCG at groups.io>
> Subject: [MRCA] Gilbert meet September 22-23
>
> The plan for ON AIR Ops:
>
> Local coordination channels - 51.0 FM 146.52 FM
>
> Thursday, September 21st.
>
> 1200 to 1300      5.357     USB Moose & Squirrel  Net.
>
> Friday, September 22nd.
>
> MRCA Beltsville Backpack and field exercise Schedule:
> 1400 to 1500     5.357     USB Net. Will have fixed station at Beltsville lake
> as NCS, remote stations are encouraged to also participate.
> 1500 to 1530     3.885     AM Net. Low power backpack or handheld,3875 if
> traffic on channel.
> 1530 to 1600     3.875     USB Net. Low power backpack or handheld, 7296 as an
> alternate?
> 1600 to 1630     3.570     CW Net. Slow Net! We need someone to step up as NCS
> for this.
> 1630 to 1700     51.0       FM Net. Wide band PRC-25/77 VRC-12 and the like.
> Open squelch please.
>
> (TBD) Ops that take place at the Howell building and the MVPA show:
> 144.25   AM Handheld/Backpack or aircraft radios, URC-4, ARC-3 and other
> primitive AM radios.
>     29.6 or 29.10  FM wide band primitive, SCR-300/BC-1000 and other WW2 sets
> including early vehicle sets.
>
> Saturday, September 23rd.
>
> 0500 to 0800      3.885     AM MRCA Net.
>
> Non-Sanctioned MMRCG events on Saturday:
> 0900 to 1000      7.087     RTTY Net 850Hz, 60 wpm.
> 1000 to 1100      7.296     USB MMRCG Net.
>
> 1300                      18.145   USB proposed cross country contact to MRCG
> West.
>
> Commentary and thoughts:
>
> If I can get on sight early enough on Thursday will operate M&S Net from that
> location. For Friday do we want to keep the same schedule add to or take away
> some of the pushes? Can be a bit hectic changing configuration between nets.
> The 5357 Net has become popular not just with the back pack stations on site
> but the last couple years we have had about half a dozen distant stations take
> part. It's always fun to see how many portable stations can be copied at great
> distances.
> Do we want to keep all the backpack 80 meter ops? Maybe move the USB net to
> something like 7296 and see how that goes? Or remove one of the nets to give
> more time to the CW net?
> 51.0 has seen a lot of activity during the event and do we want to just keep
> that as a coordination channel or still keep a 51.0 net?
> NCS has capabilities for 144.25 AM but don't know if we want to do anything
> with that from Beltsville, is there interest enough to schedule something back
> at the fair grounds on VHF AM or something with the first generation FM sets
> on ten meters?
> Last year we had some certificates for any of the stations that took part in
> the Beltsville exercise, any interest in doing that again? Would people who
> participate from home want to receive one also?
> Going to attach the pdf of the Beltsville layout just to get people thinking
> again but keep in mind that we have other stations that were at the fair
> grounds or distant locations so using one of the proposed sites is not
> mandatory.
> Saturday morning I will be doing the MMRCG stuff including the RTTY net and
> the Saturday MMRCG net outside the Howell building and would wonder if there
> is anything else that the MMRCG would like to be doing at the event.
>
> Lets see what others thought and ideas are out there?
>
>
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> From:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net  <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net>  On Behalf Of
> Al Klase
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 7:52 PM
> To:mrca at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] Gilbert meet
>
>
> Hi Jack,
>
> The Red Ball site<https://redballonline.org/>  says the meet is 22-23 Sept
> 2023, so that's it.  Can't say that we've done any plannings o far, but we'll
> be there.
>
> Al
> On 7/19/2023 6:04 PM, Jack Antonio wrote:
> Starting to plan for Gilbert, is the meet on for the 22 and 23 of
> September?
>
> Need to know the dates so I can schedule other upcoming things around
> it.
>
> Then I need to start organizing what I'm bringing.
>
> Jack Antonio
> WA7DIA
>
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