[MRCA] Military Aviation Museum (non) Airshow Reenactment AAR -- Correction

[Mark K3MSB]

Good Gravy....

I was at the Military Aviation Museum in VA Beach last weekend.... NOT the
Mid Atlantic Air Museum.....   Sorry for the typo....

Mark K3MSB

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> As mentioned before, the airshow was cancelled about a week before we were
> to attend the event, but the group went anyway and had a great time!   The
> museum was glad we were there and they treated us wonderfully.
>
> Here's a photo of my setup:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> The DF setup is the same as before, but I brought the SCR-287 instead of
> the SCR-274N.
>
> The BC-348Q is restored and sports a restored dynamotor, and it runs
> nicely off a pair of batteries in series.   Very little dynamotor whine.
>  The antenna was a 50 foot wire run from the radio tent to another tent,
> and performed well.   I tuned the receiver to CHU Canada on 7850 Kc and
> quite a few people were said they were "amazed that radio can hear that
> far"!
>
> The BC-375 was for display only.   The DF setup worked well with the
> Broadcast Band receiver, but alas, no NDB's could be heard this time.
>
> Even if there weren't issues with the museum's aircraft, there was a
> temporary flight restriction issued for the Norfolk / Virginia Beach area
> on Saturday due to President Trump being in the area.  The TFR would have
> significantly impacted the airshow.
>
> Still, the museum's Grumman Avenger was flying the circuit  all day
> qualifying new pilots.   Here's a few videos....
>
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger1.MOV
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger2.MOV
> https://www.k3msb.com/temp/Avenger3.MOV
>
> As far as what worked well etc, nothing different that what I reported for
> the events I participated in earlier this summer.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
>
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