[MRCA] [MMRCG] MRCA Red Ball / Gilbert Show

[Ray Fantini]

Friday the 26th will be an event where everyone gets to drag out there backpacks and vehicle mounted, often military vehicle mounted hardware and make contacts. Being a bunch of us will be on site around Beltsville lake no matter how poorly your set up works we will guarantee contacts! Many of the operators that will be on site have good set ups and in the past several years we have been encouraging those not in attendance to participate and give signal reports. I am always surprised to use a backpack with a whip and make contact with stations two hundred miles away. Some may say that's the same thing that happens every Moose & Squirrel net and that's true, but we will have a lot of us together at Gilbert.
Use to be we did not talk too much about the Saturday M&S Net opps being most of us were already on site but today that's not always the case. I will make it a point to fire up the radio onboard the mutt and get on at noon that Saturday and will see what happens.
I know from experience that N2MS is almost always beating the drum for mobile operation on the M&S Net and if you cannot make the event would be great to work you both days! The last several months propagation has sucked and often N2MS and K3TZJ are the only stations I can get good copy on. Think Ron will be on site with his PRC-70 and if I can con someone into working as NCS for Friday I would love to get into the field and try out my new GRC-215 backpack.


Ray F/KA3EKH


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Subject: Re: [MMRCG] [MRCA] MRCA Red Ball / Gilbert Show


Will there be a 60 meter Moose and Squirrel net on Saturday as well as the Friday net?

Mike N2MS

> On 09/17/2025 10:12 AM EDT Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> Thought I would put out a reminder about the upcoming MRCA event at the Red Ball MVPA Show next Friday and Saturday in Gilbert PA. We will have the field exercise on Friday afternoon featuring many backpack and mobile stations on sixty meters and as always will be looking for others to check in from there home QTH and see who can be worked as part of the fun. In the past we have had about a equal number of stations at the event and stations checking in from home. Big opportunity for us all to play around with trying to do distant contacts from the field.
> For information about the event see:
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> https://www.mrca.ar88.net/Fall_Meet/fall_meet.html
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> And if anyone is interested can always set up additional Sked on just about any band.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH