2011 ARRL Straight Key Night
Wonderful event with great activityy this year. Worked 14 stations using a Drake B-Line and a Morse Express 2006 Christmas Key. Best fist goes to N0JBF who, with little more than a year's Morse Code under his belt, sent perfect code at 12 wpm although he can copy higher.
Highlights included N5RR reporting tornado damage near Branson, MO; K9TJL reporting a mutual friend and traffic handler (K9CNP) became a SK in December; worked WN9U who was using a Chinese HB1A QRP rig; worked N5DY who was using a WW-II Westclox key; worked long-time friend K9BGL; worked 3 "Lees" in a row (WA0UIG, K9CM, K5LY); and managed to snare K6KPH to maintain a SKN tradition (even IF Denise Stoops was AWOL).
73 and HNY to all. Kent Trimble, K9ZTV, Jefferson City, MO.
-- K9ZTVBack