[MRCA] Today's Nets

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

I would have been on the net today but my daughter and son-in-law are here and wanted to take a hike so I took along my handheld Tecsun PL-368 to see if I could pick it up. We went to Hartshorne Woods park which is appropriate because it was formerly Highlands Air-Force station during the Cold War.

Conditions were good and the local noise level was low so I was able to pick up everyone on the net with the 3 foot telescoping whip. WB2JWU was a 5x7. KA3EKH was the weakest at 4x4 and the channel masters were W2AO and NM2K at 5x8.

My daughter was interested in the Moose and Squirrel name so I explained the Cold War connection with the cartoon; she did remember Boris and Natasha. She heard the hum on WB2JWU's signal so I explained it was from his radio, a classic PRC-47, and I showed her a picture of the radio. We had a good brisk walk ad I think she now understands how I operate during those noontime nets.

Mike N2MS


> On 11/25/2023 1:38 PM EST Ray Fantini <rafantini at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> This morning RTTY Net on 7087, 0900 local
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> NCS K4NYW, K3RSZ, KD2GFM and KA3EKH
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> MMRCG 7296 (USB), 1000 local
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> NCS KA3EKH running a Harris 5020 with the matching 125 watt amplifier.
> KE8ULR running a PRC-47, WF2U running a Harris RF-350K + 355 amplifier, K4NYW running a URC-32, wins the award for heaviest radio, KD2GFM running a Harris RF-350K with 500 watt amplifier and Harris coupler and W4OSS running an Icom.
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> MRCA M&S Net 5357 1200 local
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> NCS WB2JWU
> Was able to check in via help from Ken KD2GFM, had week copy on NCS but KD2GFM, MN2K, W2AO and K2XAM were all booming in down in southern Maryland.
> 
> I discovered that my new 10 MHz GPS disciplined standard is generating tons of noise on sixty. Looks like I will have to work out grounding or shielding to quiet it down. Reminds me of something I saw at the NSA once, they had a bunch of Bearcat first generation programmable scanners but they caused so much interference they had to be mounted insides fully shelled rack mount enclosures. Hope I don’t have to do the same with the Chinese GPS standard because I like the little display with the frequency counter and real time clock.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH