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

[Ray Fantini]

51.0 FM has been an unofficial push at events for years now. There has been a 51.0 Cold War Net at Hamvention for over twenty years and although we do not have a scheduled 51.0 Net at Gilbert that channel is used throughout for coordination and broadcast announcements. I have a VRC-12 (RT-524) onboard the  mutt that’s on the entire time so often when people want to check things out before show time we can coordinate on that.
Little nets have popped up often on Friday night at the Howell building most often on 51.0, 144.25(AM) and other frequencies. I will also have my 77 there too.

Ray F/KA3EKH




From: Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 3:35 PM
To: MMRCG at groups.io; Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Cc: mstangelo at comcast.net; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MMRCG] [MRCA] MRCA Red Ball / Gilbert Show


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<http://groups.io/> <RAFANTINI=salisbury.edu at groups.io<mailto: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



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