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

Tue Apr 4 16:12:15 EDT 2017

Agree, with the GP Medium:  Great tent, but weighs a lot and takes some looking after (if you have ever washed, dried, darned, re-waterproofed, re-lubed zippers, then you know what I am talking about).  With the liner, they are awesome.  I have used them from the Artic Circle to various places in Africa and the Mid East and when cared for and put up correctly they are tough to beat.  They have been replaced with frame tents that are lighter and generally easier to put up.  

My thoughts are also that we might want a floorless design; however, when you start talking about those you often end up looking at hunter's canvas wall type tents which are expensive and heavy.  https://www.walltentshop.com/collections/canvas-tents So a less expensive floored tent may be the way to go with the expectation that the floor might end up with some holes.  

I recall many years back when I was a kid, my Grandfather had a WWII "Canadian Army Tent" which was square floor plan, no floor, had one large center post, and a spreader with four arms which slid up the center post and locked into place..  It was canvas and wood, so it was not light, but was not hard to put up.  Something like that might be good, though I do not recall the dimensions.  Good luck trying to find one these days.  

One thing to think about is possibly a vehicle shelter/portable garage/carport example http://www.cozydays.com/home-garden/storage-shelters/auto-shelter-1-3-8-4-rib-peak-style-frame-sandstone-cover-10x15x8-portable-garage-20834.html 

Then again, we might be able to do a yurt or geodesic dome  ;) 

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From: PPRAANet <ppraanet-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Dennis Major <n0abc at msn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 1:10 PM
To: ppraanet at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] Tent for club?.....

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.....
>
> Jim KD0KQL
>
>

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