Some may find this interesting when I was in radio school in San Diego in 1968. I was able to listen on low band on our PRC 25s to fire flights going on in Vietnam. After being deployed in Vietnam, Time permitting, I would dial through the PRC 25 and then 77 to see if I could hear San Diego but never did hear anything
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It just pops in and out here in Chickenland.
Z
On 8/17/2026 5:28 AM, comcast wrote:
> vhf low band skip ?- my employer, Atlantic City Electric in New
> Jersey, ?before switching to a Motorola trunked system in the 1990s ,
> had a 4 freq no PL 48 mhz radio system. ?The building I was in had a
> 90 ft pole with a ground plane antenna. Throughout the 80s in the
> summer we would hear skip from the utility companies in the south and
> also southetn California every day loud and clear and cover up our
> mobile 60 watt mitreks. ?Jeff N2IA
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>> N6CC is on-freq from CA...
>> Tim
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>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 10:21?AM B. Smith via MRCA
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>> Monitor 29.4, the band has been popping in and out.
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Happiness was landing a a SF field and seeing that little control tower.
Z
On 8/16/2026 4:18 PM, Jeep Platt via MRCA wrote:
> Our CAP unit got an MRC-22 trailer setup in maybe 1975. That, and a
> small mobile control tower pop-up trailer.? Everything worked but I do
> not recall we ever deployed them.? After a few years, the radios were
> stripped out and trailers turned in.? Oh well...
> K3HVG
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> USN/USMC mobile radio communications 1940s-50s.
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The 2026 MRCA Meet at the West End Fairgrounds in Gilbert, PA, Sept 24-26 is a month away.This email is a request for you to let the MRCA planning team know what your intentions are
__X__ Planning to come
____ Planning to participate in the Friday field ops from Howell Bldg
_____Planning to bring a demo or display
_____ Planning to bring radio items to sell? (I have three PE-120 Power Supplies for sale)
_____ Planning to be at the Friday night Howell Bldg cookout
_____Planning to be at the Saturday morning Howell Bldg breakfast
_____Willing to spend an hour Saturday morning for two short presentations and a group picture
Dave
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Our CAP unit got an MRC-22 trailer setup in maybe 1975. That, and a small mobile control tower pop-up trailer.? Everything worked but I do not recall we ever deployed them.? After a few years, the radios were stripped out and trailers turned in.? Oh well...
K3HVG
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