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Usually the DX\u2019peditions, expecially those managed by Americans, use brand new transceivers, amplifiers, cables and antennas, took on loan or bought at favourable price from sponsors in occasion of the activity. When the expedition is over, the materials on loan are back to the sponsors or, what has been bought, sold on the second-hand market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike the most part of the DX\u2019peditions before described, the stuff for 3C2MD <\/strong>(Transceiver, antennas, filters, cables, computers\u2026) is property of MDXC<\/strong>, has been bought with Association\u2019s money and used in all the past expeditionary activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course sometimes items have to be replaced, so older things are sold to help MDXC <\/strong>in buying new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With described strategy there are “pros and cons”<\/strong>: we don\u2019t need to search yearly expensive support from \u201cbig\u201d sponsors, we know the items that we have and how to set-up them BUT, on the other hand, we have capital immobilisation, obsolescence of the items at MDXC<\/strong>\u2019s charge, necessity of maintenance and necessity to keep stored a big quantity of materials. All is on the hands of Marco, IZ2GNQ<\/strong>, MDXC’s logistic manager<\/strong>. After each expedition, on the morning of the coming back, all the items are placed on that small container you may see in the picture. During the following weeks, Marco try to recover what was broken, cleans connectors, wraps the cables, clean transceivers and amplifiers, reset the laptops. Each year he brings Power Amplifiers and Transceivers to be checked by Orazio, IZ2KTE<\/strong>, MDXC\u2019s chief technician<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several months before the departure Marco start to visit the container and select what it will be bring at the new destination and what will stay at home and, step by step, he decides what will be inside each bag, taking in consideration the weight limits imposed by the airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a long road between the container on the left to the bags \u201cready to be checked-in\u201d on the right: thank you Marco to be with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually the DX\u2019peditions, expecially those managed by Americans, use brand new transceivers, amplifiers, cables and antennas, took on loan or bought at favourable price from sponsors in occasion of the activity. When the expedition is over, the materials on loan are back to the sponsors or, what has been bought, sold on the second-hand market. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mdxc.support\/3c2md\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
From this latter “cons” (necessity to store somewhere all the stuff) coming the picture that open the note you are reading: how we pass from the \u201cfull-of-mess container\u201d on the left to the \u201cready-to-be-checked in\u201d bags on the right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n