[MRCG] Meet summary

Wed May 10 01:56:16 EDT 2017

You didn't hear this from me (ssssshhhhhhhhhh) but word on the street is that a complete in the transit case TBY changed hands in a pre dawn swap meet assault. No further info available :O 

Sent from my 1944 Westinghouse TBM 

> On May 9, 2017, at 10:17 PM, Jim Falls <radio-tuber at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Jay - We/I missed you this time! Next year!
> 
> Off the top of my head:
> 
> Started off Thursday evening with a HUGE feast at Jocko's in Nipomo. All the hype is true! We all had major leftovers the next day.
> 
> Fox hunt went off relatively quickly.
> 
> Most of The Regulars were there, w/ the exception of Dennis W7QHO and Tom WA6OPE. I'm not sure what the story was.
> 
> Talks were varied and well attended. Hank Brown did a talk on easy hacks for the workbench. One of them, a simple cap leakage tester consisting of a spare VOM test probe, 100k resistor and a neon night light bulb is in the works on my bench right now. Mark Blair NF6X did a talk on a multi-function wire line field phone listening device he recently picked up, John Castorina presented the winning tale of the mustang he'd been working on for the Oshkosh show. He showed us one of his spares several years ago, If I recall correctly. I talked briefly about my adventures last year installing, debugging, and operating my BC-375 along with other gear brought to Moffett and Stockton by Mark Miller, a fellow ham, to work in the Collings' B-17 "Nine-o-Nine" and in a comm trailer on the ramp at Bomber Camp Stockton. A mil-vehicle restorer (my brain is a sieve!) gave the tale of one of his immaculately done projects and how it is now near Moscow in a museum serving as an example of post-wa
> r "Lend-Lease" equipment. He also had a remarkable tale of how he found out where nomenclature tags were finally installed correctly on a 50's armored command car he'd restored years ago: long retired Vietnamese vets in San Jose who'd actually driven the beasts!
> 
> Tom W6TOM was finally able to check into the Collins Net after wrestling with a cranky mode switch, then an interminable wait out in the cold Friday breeze. Massive ragchewers, these Collins folks!
> 
> Swapmeet wasn't earth shattering, but goodies moved around and there were many pieces that ultimately ended up in the Junk Auction.
> 
> Bjorn SM5UR(?) won 1st place for his 50's Swedish RX/TX operating station. He and Paul N6FEG worked a deal and it went home with Paul on Saturday. 
> 
> PS: Geoff, the old PSU chassis i picked up from you years ago in Monterey and rebuilt w/the help of W7QHO and WA6OPE, is keeping my BC-375 on the air quite nicely! 55W is always a fight these days, but it's what I have and I love it!
> 
> Cheers!
> Jim K6FWT
> 
>> On May 9, 2017, at 19:51, Jay Coward via MRCG <mrcg at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Geoff,
>> Good to hear your "voice" !
>> I was not able to attend either and I missed all the fun, But I am able to retire now  as of 5/4/17 but don't really want to. But work may be more lenient in the future to let me take time off as I become more addled and decrepit and I have a really nice cane I can use for my "back problems" ;-).
>> Next year I will defiantly put my foot down no matter what the production scheduled demands!
>> I really want to see all you folks next year.
>> Jay KE6PPF
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Geoff Fors <Geoff at wb6nvh.com>
>> To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group <mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Tue, May 9, 2017 7:03 pm
>> Subject: [MRCG] Meet summary
>> 
>> Can anyone who was at the MRCG meet give a review of the event and/or the swap meet this year?  That will help those of us poor beggars who could not attend, learn what we missed. 
>> 
>> Once upon a time there were some videos made of these events, I think Dennis used to make them - - I was also wondering whether anyone did this year.  
>> 
>> Geoff
>> WB6NVH
>> Monterey
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