2022 MRCA Meet Field Exercise
The field exercise is not only for MRCA Meet station operators deploying at remote sites in eastern PA. It is also an opportunity for stations who are not attending the meet to contact our remote stations with signal reports.
The field exercise commences at 14:00 Local on Friday, Sept. 23. For most sites this would require leaving the West End Fairgrounds 30 or more minutes prior. The schedule below suggests times and frequencies to organize our activity. Stations wishing to conduct additional or alternate communications please plan to avoid the scheduled time/frequency slots. To consider which remote site to operate from see below.
14:00 - 15:00 pm 5357 kHz USB
(5371.5 kHz alternate)
Participating stations can introduce themselves and describe their equipment, their location and their afternoon operating plans.
15:00 – 15:30 pm 3875 KHz USB
(3885 kHz alternate)
15:30 – 16:00 pm 3885 KHz AM
(3875 kHz alternate)
16:00 - 16:30 pm 3570 CW
(10 wpm or less)
16:30 - 17:00 pm 51 MHz FM
(Old Squelch, no tone)
51.0 MHz FM can serve as an intercom throughout the afternoon to coordinate with other stations.
Not everyone who would
like to participate has equipment with them and some may be new to our the MRCA
Meet. If you have room, or can use help, invite someone to go with you.
From the longer range
field sites, e.g. Big Pocono, Penns Peak, Jacobsburg, Blue Mountain Resort it
should be interesting to see what equipment and antenna configurations at
Beltzville can be heard at more remote stations.
The brief information
below about locations is for your advance planning. You may want to try a new
location this year, or if you are traveling to the MRCA Meet on Friday
afternoon you may want to head directly to one of these sites before checking
in at the fairgrounds to set up for a specific target activity time.
Clicking
on a link below will take you to a Google aerial view, and in some cases a
ground level view of the site. Cut and paste the URL info into your
browser. Directions and additional info will be available at the
Howell Bldg before deployment. If you will be traveling directly to one
of these sites Friday afternoon and need directions or if you have any
questions email kw1i@earthlink.net.
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