[PPRAANet] Tent for club?.....

[Dennis Major]

What you all were probably thinking would be a good idea is a "GP 
Medium" tent. It is the very old standard for the military. It is 16' x 
32' and it would work well for us, EXCEPT that it is so danged heavy. I 
confess that I have mucho experience with these, but my experience is 
40+ years ago. They work well IF your large party of troops or whatever 
will be sleeping in them for days or weeks at a time. They have no 
floor. The old ones were always canvas and ALWAYS smelled like mildew 
and other noxious things. I see that newer ones are in vinyl, and 
apparently a -little- less weight.

When you seriously consider the weight, and storage, aspects, and that 
it really needs 4 twenty-something-year-olds to manhandle and set up the 
darned things, we really don't want a GP Medium.

Since, I presume, what we want is something that we can relatively 
easily store, put up easily with 1 - 2 people of almost any age, for a 
duration of 1 - 3 days and 0 - 2 nights, I submit that we probably want 
a cabin tent that is listed as sleeping 10-15 people easily. I have 
found several that could fit the bill. The main problem I can see is 
that they all have a floor. That can be good in many ways, but if we 
have substantial traffic, or people are not careful with how they place 
things, the floor can become damaged. Possibly keeping a few tarps 
around to go on top of the floor would be good.

Anyway, here is a link to one tent I found, which could be suitable:
http://tinyurl.com/mh6d5wg

Smoke on that for a while, and see what is left.

73

Dennis
N0ABC



On 4/4/2017 10:44 AM, Jim Bishop wrote:
> At first, I miss read the weight as 200lb.  Thanks, KD0SFY,  the picture explains it much better than the text.
> There is a very nice wall tent at Bass Pro Store that would more fit our needs.  It's big enough to sleep about 10 and has a kitchen area and all that.  Not that expensive.
> Just need a willing donor, hint, hint.....
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> Jim KD0KQL
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