Nice AAR Mark, it was great seeing you as well.

I was back home Saturday for the M&S Net and your mobile signal was very good in both strength and audio quality with no hint of ignition noise in your Xmit signal.

I also had a great time and it was great to see everyone. I wish I could say that the Sunair RT-9000 I bought there for a very low price untested was working perfectly, but there is an issue on transmit, (it doesn’t), and I will have to have the radio looked at. Receive is very good so that helps, and everything is present inside.

73,

Ken

KD2GFM

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MilComm Guy
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:54 PM
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Subject: [MRCA] Nearfest AAR

I departed at 0300 Friday morning, drove straight through, fuel stops only and arrived at 0900 at gate opening. The only way to describe the line and crowd waiting to get in is chaos, the lower lot was full and the line was 4 lanes wide. I located the MRCA group and Dale had a spot saved, thanks Dale.

I made a few initial tours of the site, only saw 2 PRC sets, a 6 and 10, only 1 VRC set a R-442, 1 GRC-9 w/power supply-no cables and was being purchased, 2 sad looking T195's(sold)waiting to be picked up(still there Saturday), 1 R-392 w/mount being carried by a golf cart, several ART-13's, several BC-348's, a SCR set in the field chest and other ratty looking WWII stuff I know nothing about, 1 collins radio in the suitcase(KWM2A ?), a PRC-74 set up as an operating station, unknown who it was, one of those 3 piece black box spy radio's that looked clean, some command radio sets and dynamotors that again I know nothing about but looked ratty.

A few more rounds produced no new finds, I purchased a new AT-1011 top section, a AT-271 and a nice looking/clean PRC-320 pack, that was all I found to purchase. Saturday the place was a ghost town, if someone traveled a long distance I felt sorry for them, lots of vendors had already packed and left Friday night, and saw very few new ones Saturday. I departed just after 1100 and arrived home 1718, again straight through only stopping for fuel, about 600 miles round trip.

It was nice to meet Tom and Glen in the flesh for the first time, and see the regulars as well. Checked in the M&S net around Manchster NH while mobile, thank you for the good signal reports. I have some severe ignition noise with the M886 and rx was difficult.

Thanks to the MRCA gang and enjoyed all your company.

Mark

K1HF