[MRCA] Hamvention Field Ops on 18.157.5

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

They have many nets on 18.157.5.  Why not mode the Military radio net to 18.160?

Mike N2MS

> On 05/10/2023 9:58 AM Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> Did not go into the 18.157.5 USB thing because that’s a pack R/T Net and although it may have been at one time using military equipment it has migrated more towards the home built and off the shelf than military pack sets. At least that’s how it appears to me, your limited running seventeen meters with military pack sets. All I can think of is things like the PRC-70 and the 104
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> Warning, commentary and personal opinion follow! This is just what I think and beyond that means nothing.
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> Recently there was a thread about a battleship and the Ham radio station installed on board. Why would the Ham radio club install modern equipment and if that was right or not. I think the issue is that the Ham of today has not had the opportunity to work with old technology and lacks the basic skills required to use that equipment and along with the fact that much if not all the new technology is so much easier to use, requires less space and on the average preforms better then the old technology that if you are just interested in doing QSO, chasseing DX, running digital modes or setting up a Special Events station you are going to go with what you know along with what you know works for you.
> Elecraft, Yeasu and Icom all make great radios for Pack Nets. That being said the significance of the three nets that I am beating the drum about for the Hamvention are all about using Military Surplus radios, although you don’t have to use one and we always get several who are not it is preferred to have something like a BC-611, PRC-25 or PRC-74 and we have some of our group who have risen to the challenge and run huge , heavy radios like PRC-47, PRC- 70 with the hand crank generator and huge heavy sets like the GRC-19
> The Hamvention is one of the premiere events to bring out your restored, working military radios and use it in a net along with others with the same desire and drive.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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