[MRCG] MRCG 2018 Friday May 4t Radio Exercise Survey

[Mark J. Blair]

I plan to be on portable 51.0 MHz FM w/ 150 Hz tone squelch full time during the daytime, via a backpack SINCGARS rig.

I'm also planning to bring my AN/PRC-70, though I don't expect to lug it around all the time. I'll be able to get on HF USB/AM voice with it, plus it provides redundant 6m FM capability. I might have a sound card interface set up for it + my laptop by then (but no promises), to allow digital modes such as RTTY. But my laptop's battery is shot so I would only be able to do that near an AC power source.

I can bring the 51.0 MHz fox hunt transmitter and one loaner PRC-6 w/ DF loop, if at least a couple others plan to bring 6m FM DF gear. I think it's only worth the trouble of running a fox hunt if there will be a a few hunters.

For 0 Hz band operation, I'm bringing my field telephone switchboard and one EE-8, and I hear that others will also bring field phones, with at least one more switchboard in attendance. I'll bring a spool of plain old telecom punchdown wire. Sorry, I don't have proper field phone wire yet.

I expect to have an event venue map up on the MRCG web site by this evening.

I plan to display a bunch of burst message devices inside the hall, and can give an impromptu talk on them if the schedule needs to be filled in. That'll be mostly a non-operational display, since I still have a lot of work to do on the various devices.

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/