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2018 ARRL Straight Key Night

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01/05/2018 | W1TS

Enjoyed hearing all the vintage rigs frequently used in this years’s SKN. My most interesting QSO was with N3GJ and his distinctive sounding TNT transmitter. It was especially easy to copy through the QRM with the slight chirp, although the frequency ... Read More
01/05/2018 | KA9P

Managed 6 QSOs this year with a finally finished Ranger 2 restoration that started in 2002, and a favorite RAF Type 51 straight key of the type used on Vulcan bombers. Enjoyed all the QSOs but especially one with Rick, WA5DBU as we both had vintage tr... Read More
01/04/2018 | K6CTW

Very enjoyable couple of hours on-air as usual. Hope to work more next year when I won't have such a nasty case of the flu. Rig this year was Drake C-Line and keys were: Bencher straight Key Vibroplex Presentation Vibroplex Blue Racer 73 to all and ho... Read More
01/03/2018 | W1FP

Happy New Year to all SKN OPS , especially the three folks I worked on a noisy 80 meter band. Didn't use any of the boat anchor gear this time, instead put my KX3 to the task. In keeping with the straight key spirit I used a Titanic replica key, ra... Read More
01/03/2018 | K5MBA

Thanks for another SKN. I look forward to it each year to work my boat anchors. I heard lots of signals on 40 meters and made several contacts. I had a great QSO with WB3DZC, then encountered an issue. My homebrew QSK project malfunctioned and th... Read More
01/03/2018 | Ki0g

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01/03/2018 | WA9STI

Instead of using my Healthkit HW-8 for SKN this year, I went hi-tech with my Elecraft KX3 to a KXPA100 amplifier and a Nye straight key. Worked three SOTA activators: K0JQZ in CO and AE9Q in AZ on 20 meters and N7LP in AZ on 30 meters. My “Most Inte... Read More
01/02/2018 | W0YBS

Had a great time in this years SKN. Worked a lot of stations using old equipment. I used my Johnson Viking Valiant and Hammarlund HQ170A for all of my contacts. Swapped a number of bugs during the event. Nice to see everyone keeping CW alive. Hope to s... Read More