[MRCG] MRCG 2018 Radio Exercise Results

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Yea Mark..he just forgot his call. Jeez! 

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> On May 7, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Thomas Murphy <tpmurphy at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>  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
> Behalf Of Mark J. Blair
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 2:03 PM
> To: MRCG Mailing List List
> 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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