[MRCA] Hamvention and radio Nets

[Ray Fantini]

We are seven weeks out from the Hamvention in Xenia Ohio.  By now would assume that everyone knows about the annual Military Radio Nets that take place on that Saturday. This year will be no different with the 3885 AM WW2 Low power and backpack net at 1200 hours local and the 51.0 FM Cold War backpack and handheld net at 1400 hours local.

The 3885 WW2 Net features everything from BC-611 to SCR-284, GRC-9 and has often includes sets like the DAV/MAB, TBX, TCS and newer radios including things along the line of GRC-19 and later production military radio sets running AME. That Net will on the average have about twenty to thirty stations taking part with a small number of some stations running commercial (Ham) equipment.
I will be dragging one of the SCR-284/BC-654 sets that I have just finished working over and have that set up at the MMRCG pavilion, spaces 7740 to 7743
The 51.0 Cold War Net will be radios like the PRC-6, PRC-10, RT-70, PRC-25 and 77 with a good representation of older sets from the BC-1000 to newer SINGARS sets. We will also have a good showing of German, Russian and the last couple years captured Iraqi radios.
Being wide band FM it's not as attractive to the nonmilitary crowd but we have accommodated the narrower banded sets in the past.
In past years we have had over forty stations take part in this net, it's one of the few opportunities you get to net with lots of other military sets.
We have also played around with the idea of additional nets on 5357 USB and 144.250 AM.
I intend to work the MMRCG nets on 7296 and the 7087 RTTY Net from the Hamvention.
Maybe we can have a Friday or Saturday night net on 5357 not necessarily at the Hamvention but from the field in and around Xenia?
We have time to plan and get hardware together so let's see what people are thinking.

Ray F/KA3EKH

Also, I got dropped from the Milsurplus reflector so if someone can post this over there for me it would be appreciated.



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