Good Gravy....
I was at the Military Aviation Museum in VA Beach last
weekend.... NOT the Mid Atlantic Air Museum..... Sorry for
the typo....
Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at
7:20 PM Mark K3MSB <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Everyone
As mentioned before, the airshow was cancelled about a week before we were to attend the event, but the group went anyway and had a great time! The museum was glad we were there and they treated us wonderfully.
Here's a photo of my setup:
The DF setup is the same as before, but I brought the SCR-287 instead of the SCR-274N.
The BC-348Q is restored and sports a restored dynamotor, and it runs nicely off a pair of batteries in series. Very little dynamotor whine. The antenna was a 50 foot wire run from the radio tent to another tent, and performed well. I tuned the receiver to CHU Canada on 7850 Kc and quite a few people were said they were "amazed that radio can hear that far"!
The BC-375 was for display only. The DF setup worked well with the Broadcast Band receiver, but alas, no NDB's could be heard this time.
Even if there weren't issues with the museum's aircraft, there was a temporary flight restriction issued for the Norfolk / Virginia Beach area on Saturday due to President Trump being in the area. The TFR would have significantly impacted the airshow.
Still, the museum's Grumman Avenger was flying the circuit all day qualifying new pilots. Here's a few videos....
As far as what worked well etc, nothing different that what I reported for the events I participated in earlier this summer.
73 Mark K3MSB
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