[MRCA] AAR Hagerstown MD MV Show

[KD2GIY]

Ray,
I'm glad to see my PRC-70 is doing well! LoL
I should have left the charger with you.

I am going to do the same battery mod to the PRC-70 battery box that I did
with my new to me PRC-320.
That battery you're using is very small compared to the box. But I plan on
putting a larger battery in there with a voltage meter so I can make sure I
never go down and voltage and damage the radio.

Out of all your videos that I enjoy watching, you do not have any videos on
the PRC-70.
And there are no videos on YouTube on it at all.

I'm sure many will concur with me when I request a video at least on the
operation of the PRC-70
And how the internal tuner works with the beep sounds.

Just an idea.

Best regards
Dave
KD2GIY

On Mon, May 11, 2026, 10:45 AM Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

>
> Hard to Imagin today but once that was one of the biggest shows in the
> east. Think several years of rain and the high price of gas killed it. Did
> drag the mutt out and operated the RTTY and Voice Nets on Saturday with the
> 0900 RAT Net working well but the MMRCG Voice USB net settled around 7285
> with a LSB station being right below making 7280 useless and we only had
> occasional interference with some AM station deciding to call out CQ on
> 7288 and wiping out N2MS on a couple transmissions. KE8ULR and WF2U were
> solid and W1NZR popped up around the end of the net so we all went several
> more rounds.
> N2IA, K1HF and I all played around with different frequencies and radios
> on 51.0, 7.280 and 3885 with a number of radios on Friday from the WS-19 to
> KD2GIY PRC-70 that I have to admit works really well with his small Lithium
> or whatever battery pack he built, played with that radio a lot and the
> battery was solid.
> With the dwindling attendance, rain and the fact that they beat me down
> for $50 for my space have to wonder if I will keep doing that event at the
> same level. Let's hope Hamvention is better.
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on
> behalf of MilComm Guy via MRCA <MRCA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:38 PM
> *To:* mrca at mailman.qth.net <MRCA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [MRCA] AAR Hagerstown MD MV Show
>
>
> I left at 8pm Thursday night, arrived Friday morning 830am a good 12hr
> drive from Maine.  This is the first time I have been to the show so I was
> not sure what to expect.
>
>   The show is on the apron/ramp area to the aviation museum, the wind was
> strong and caused problems with holding anything down.   The vendor area
> was about 60% empty, I think there were 12 or so MV's on site.  I sold a
> few items I brought pretty much right away, the crowd was ok but thinned
> out quickly.  I met up with Bernie first then Ray showed up around 11, I
> also talked with Jeff and met Tom for the first time.  I attempted a field
> repair on Ray's mutt exhaust but the down pipe was badly deformed and would
> not seal, no new pipes could be found at the show so repairs will continue
> at Gilbert.  Mil comm gear was scarce, I saw one PRC-25 they wanted $500, a
> good supply of MV antennas and brackets, one vendor was using a WWII radio
> to hold his canopy down.
>
> I returned on Saturday at 8am, the rain was in full force and it rained
> all day.  There were about 6 vendors left and I did not see anyone else
> coming in.  Ray set up for the teletype net at 9 and that's when I decided
> to leave for home.  I met up with Alex in NJ to pick up a TW100F radio
> which was pre planned.  Traffic and rain were steady all the way home and I
> did not land home until 0200.
>
> I purchased a battery hold down and pioneer tool kit for my HMMWV and a
> bunch of 50cal ammo cans that were a screaming deal.  The sponsors of the
> show were very friendly and did a good job, I think the price of fuel and
> threat of rain killed it.  Given the distance I think I will probably just
> stay with the Gilbert show given it's track record, it's also a 12hr trip
> for me.
>
>
>
> Mark
> K1HF
> ______________________________________________________________
> MRCA mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mrca
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:MRCA at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/mrca/attachments/20260511/e1c9b165/attachment.html>