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It seems that every morning the fog drifts into the valley-- The MRCA site was eerie --but we were forecast good weather for the rest of the meet and the Field Excercises.
We
convoyed up the mountain and then split up into teams. 
Dale KW1I was the first to establish contact with Headquarters. Larry,
N1PHV assists.
So much QRM on 3885, Fox Mike came in handy here at the HQ station.
Next year maybe deploy earlier? And perhaps
try a vertical antenna at the Headquarters Station. See Rob K2WI notes
below.
Dean
KK1K tries his luck using the BC-611.
I think it is important to point all that all rules
and regulations are strickly followed during all Field Exercises.
Brown, W1NZR decided that more elevation was needed.
Ted , W3PWW mans the HQ station.
Dean makes it back OK on 51.0 using his FSE-35.
Beautiful site for radio operations.
Zorro
loads up a highly modified antenna for the Delco 5300 but no success.Rob K2WI said: "Crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way to go through life"
Had a lot of fun with the trip to the mountain. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to work Al Klase at his home base in Flemington, and Joe Cro in Washington's Crossing. However, I had the advantage of frequency agility and a little more power (10W) than some of the other rigs. On the Saturday morning exercise, Ted and I were quite pleased with the performance of the BC-669 with 24-foot vertical vs. the GRC-19 with dipole. Ted said he copied the portables much better on the former(which picked up the skywave signals less), and when I checked the relative strength of his signal at K2WI/m one time the former was noticeably stronger and the other time it was inconclusive. If we want to try working base with the little rigs, we should try to do it closer to the middle of the day when the skywave signals are less of a problem, and we should try a vertical again at base. CW is another option as that could be done in a QRM-free environment. "Crystal-controlled, weak, and on AM is no way to go through life"
The Pocono gang.