As stated in the previous sundays post I arrived Monday afternoon to the rally site and set up camp, my activities started on Tuesday. Tuesday morning I headed over to the KW1I QTH to do some pre planned welding/fabrication repair on his M886 cab mounts, while there I was given a tour of the shack and given a chance to guest co host the M&S net, repairs complete I headed back to the rally site and arrived around 1530.

Wednesday I repaired a leaking M151A2 rear differential axle seal, when I pulled the flange I noticed it was split in two, the owner was able to source one from a friend nearby and the repairs were completed. My brother arrived that afternoon and we re located camp to his motorhome(glamping).

Thursday I set up my vendor site, this is where I peddle my no longer needed OD treasures and left over vehicle restoration parts, also provides shade and a close eye on more OD goodies that I don't need. I jumped on the M&S net at Dale's M886 at noon, Charlie made an appearance( WA1GON)and browsed the treasure of the vendor sites.

Friday WB2JWU and KK1K arrived on site, sales were good on Thursday but Friday was the best day, probably freshly cashed paychecks in the pocket. I met up with Mark, Ken's(SK)best friend, he had a good assortment of the estate there to sell, I was lucky to purchase a nice GSB-900 and a PRC-126, the GSB will be the new dedicated M&S set in memory of Ken.

Saturday was a bust on sales, I sold $5 and the crowd was very slim, mostly families checking out the vehicles and just wandering around. I set up my M151 over by dale's site to attach his doublet to my PRC-47 so I could operate on the RATT net at 9AM. I was only able to copy one station and that was Ray who was nearly 90% copy, I put out my call several times with no reply that I could copy. I had terrible noise on the channel and I found that the camper next to Dale was emitting hash from a solar charge controller/system and made copy very difficult. I packed up at noon and arrived home at 1930 Saturday night.

M151A2 FAC MITE RATT OPS at the show.

Dale KW1I the "RAMROD" of parking at the show answering COMMO questions.

Mark

K1HF