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

[Clare Owens]

Hi Ray,

My son and I should arrive Thursday afternoon.  Hopefully we will be able
to see you then and if you have time we can get some time with you using
the new radio.  I have been spending a lot of time matching up misc antenna
parts and restringing one of the 9' PRC-77 antennas.  Hooray for Amazon and
my 50 year collection of odds and ends.

I am considering bringing a PRC-77 and a PRC-68A to use for the local
nets.  Tfe '68A came with the short antenna but after having my Mac read
the manual to me I decided to try one of my 29" PRC-77 antennas and it
seems to work OK but will do distance comparisons once Bill gets here.

I could bring one or two BC-611s working on 3885 but would they be useful?
these are the ones we had at our table in the Howell last year.

Really looking forward to seeing all of the radio guys again.

73,

Clare  N2RJB

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM Ray Fantini via groups.io <RAFANTINI=
salisbury.edu at groups.io> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io> On Behalf Of Mike N2MS via
> groups.io
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 11:26 AM
> To: MMRCG at groups.io; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net
> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > https://www.mrca.ar88.net/Fall_Meet/fall_meet.html
> >
> > And if anyone is interested can always set up additional Sked on just
> about any band.
> >
> > Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
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