[MRCG] MRCG 2018 Radio Exercise Results

[Thomas Murphy]

  Mark,
                   I hadn't forgotten about Ray just forgot his call sign.
One of our meets a few years ago Ray went out to Morro Bay State Park and
operated with me. I would consider anything that  had a synthesized VFO to
be "Modern".  Ed, KG6UTS with his TCS and John WB6AZP with a BC-1306 had the
oldest equipment, all tubes and WWII era vintage pushing 75 years old.
Craig, N6CAV with his GRC-9 was a close second on age.

                   I used my "Modern" Collins PRC-515 because it would do
Sideband and I wanted that option, last year I checked into the Collins Net
Friday Net with it and had we not gone to Jocko's Friday night might have
done so again this year too. 

                    It was fun, I hope we get back to SLO next year.

 
Tom, W6TOM

-----Original Message-----
From: mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrcg-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 2:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [MRCG] MRCG 2018 Radio Exercise Results


> On May 6, 2018, at 2:49 PM, Thomas Murphy <tpmurphy at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> The MRCG 2018 Radio Exercise went very well, we had 6 people who 
> participated, Mark NF6X, Peter WB6NGK, Craig N6CAV, John WB6AZP, Ed 
> KG6UTS and my self W6TOM who was Net Control. All these stations 
> operated HF on
> 3885 AM.

Don't forget Ray VK2NO, who also operated in the field with me.

> NF6X with a modern park set was at Barney Schwartz park

In this case, "modern" means an AN/PRC-70 that's only around 40 years old.
We made contacts on both 3.885 AM and 51.0 FM with it.

We also operated an even more modern RT-1523E pack set on 6m that was a mere
15 years old, but didn't make any contacts with it due to the short little
3' tape antenna I had installed on it. I think it might have made contacts
if I had the longer fishing pole antenna for it.

The operating event was fun. Thanks for organizing it. I think that the bit
of cat-herding to get us out in the field was inevitable since those of us
with displays in the hall were unable to set them up the evening before.


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

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