[MRCG] Field Phones at MRCG 2018? And sniffing that SMELL and an aside to Steve H.

[Jay Coward]

Mark,

 And before unboxing, you could extract an air sample and send it to a lab for analysis. (Am I watching too much NCIS?) and determine what makes THAT SMELL . By the way, I work for a small company owned now by National Instruments that manufactured(s) VXI synthesizers, down converters, and local oscillators for the Marine Corps (A system called VIPER T) and BAE Systems that builds a similar system for the F-16 which is deployed world wide to many Allied countries. These products are  considered no longer manufacturable but we have to support fielded units for a number of years. There are very many systems fielded and some are over ten years old. BUT, the beauty of it all is when I get a unit back for repair or upgrade, IT HAS THAT SMELL!!! 
 
 I have a BD-77 and a number of EE-8's. (10 I think. I would very much like to acquire the Chest that would fit 10 EE-8's).
 I had two EE-8's set up in the NCO club, some years back, from the table nearest the outside door to the table at the entrance to the corridor to the bar/dining room. I was standing next to the door to the outside when Richard Dillman  rang me up. That was the first time I had spoken over this particular kind of land line and the voice clarity was exceptional ( all I did was but two "D" batteries in ). Beets any digital phone. I  always thought the ultimate outdoor SLO NCO campground setup would be a field switchboard in  the NCO club and all the campers and a PRC-47 and a GRC-9 (or BIGGER) and a teletype machine or two all connected. That would be OUR internet! And I suppose you, Mark, could actually connect this network with the (other) internet with audio and teletype and any other mode possible to connect.

As an aside to Steve , I have heard that Camp Roberts has hosted similar events to ours. I do not know if C. Roberts is active or not at this time.  Also, when my youngest daughter was in the Girl Scouts , the Father Daughter camp-out was at Casa de Fruita  one year and at the Salinas Sports Center the next. Both had camping areas, C d F  on an open field , Salinas  was on the city sports field and both one night only. Both had adequate bathroom facilities BUT no indoor facilities, that I know of. May be worth an iquiry.
 My best regards to all 
                                    Jay KE6PPF

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net>
To: MRCG Mailing List List <mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Mar 25, 2018 11:01 pm
Subject: Re: [MRCG] Field Phones at MRCG 2018?

Oh, and I'm also still threatening to do a live unboxing of a WW2 paper tape winder that I bought from William Donzelli late last year. He's already made a nice YouTube video of unboxing one, but maybe folks would enjoy standing around and taking a nice whiff of 1944 air as I cut open the original packaging?

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

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