Did not go into the 18.157.5 USB thing because that’s a pack R/T Net and although it may have been at one time using military equipment it has migrated more towards the home built and off the shelf than military pack sets. At least that’s how it appears to me, your limited running seventeen meters with military pack sets. All I can think of is things like the PRC-70 and the 104

Warning, commentary and personal opinion follow! This is just what I think and beyond that means nothing.

Recently there was a thread about a battleship and the Ham radio station installed on board. Why would the Ham radio club install modern equipment and if that was right or not. I think the issue is that the Ham of today has not had the opportunity to work with old technology and lacks the basic skills required to use that equipment and along with the fact that much if not all the new technology is so much easier to use, requires less space and on the average preforms better then the old technology that if you are just interested in doing QSO, chasseing DX, running digital modes or setting up a Special Events station you are going to go with what you know along with what you know works for you.

Elecraft, Yeasu and Icom all make great radios for Pack Nets.  That being said the significance of the three nets that I am beating the drum about for the Hamvention are all about using Military Surplus radios, although you don’t have to use one and we always get several who are not it is preferred to have something like a BC-611, PRC-25 or PRC-74 and we have some of our group who have risen to the challenge and run huge , heavy radios like PRC-47, PRC- 70 with the hand crank generator and huge heavy sets like the GRC-19

The Hamvention is one of the premiere events to bring out your restored, working military radios and use it in a net along with others with the same desire and drive.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bruce WD9GHK via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 4:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MMRCG] Hamvention Field Ops

Ray,

Don’t forget the 18.157.5 USB net at 1300 local time as from the email from Bonnie.

Bruce Haffner

wd9ghk

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ray Fantini
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 3:36 PM
To: [email protected]; 'Military Radio Collectors Association' <[email protected]>; West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: [MMRCG] Hamvention Field Ops

Hamvention Field Ops;

I am going to be beating this drum for a couple days until I am on the road for the Hamvention, so if you don’t want to hear it too bad.

This year at the Xenia Ohio Hamvention there will be at least three Military Pack radio or field radio themed events. On Friday the 19th at 1500 local will be the first annual 5.357 MHz USB Able Archer 83 Net. Cold War and later military radios and pack sets.

Figure by three that afternoon things will be settled down enough for doing some radio, everyone can get on and talk about all the deals!

Saturday at noon, the long-established military radio net at the Hamvention the World War 2 3.885 AM Net, what may be the largest collection of working BC-611 sets in the world takes place at the Hamvention.

At 1400 hours local the 51.0 FM Cold War radio Net favoring PRC-25/77, PRC-68, PRC-6 and 10 and a plethora of European and Soviet bloc radios.

MMRCG will have the “Todge” up again in 7740 or there about, and we will have several spare radios just in case you don’t have anything with you. As Joe, WA4VAG always says “field radios are happy in the field, not up on some shelf”.

Ray F/KA3EKH

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