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  • K3STX with his new old station

    01/16/2010 | K3STX

    Lots of fun, if I closed my eyes I could think it was 1978 again and I was scouring the Novice bands for QSOs. LOTS of activity, should be this way every night! I just got into restoring boat anchors, so this year used my "new" Hammarlund HQ-170A and H... Read More

  • 01/15/2010 | N1EP

    Preparing for SKN 2010 motivated me to practice my CW and since I have noticed my skills slowly starting to improve. CW is now my favorite mode, even though I am still quite slow and novice with the mode.
    I used a Bencher Straight Key with my Kenwoo... Read More

  • G3LTF 6m dish with 1296MHz feed

    01/15/2010 | G3LTF

    I had a great time in this years contest with 181 QSOs on the five bands from 2m to 9cm. As I use a single 6m dish this means a lot of feed changing to be able to cover the three "continental" windows, but that's the challenge of multiband eme contesti... Read More

  • 01/13/2010 | W0SMY

    A real nostalgia trip. I took the Heath HW8 off the shelf after twenty years and got it on the air. I hooked up my McElroy Stream Key (any of you old timer's remember that one?)and the J-38, as sweet a CW key as was evermade. I used it during my Arm... Read More

  • 01/13/2010 | AE5KA

    My first CW QSO was made on SKN 2010. After licensing, I was determined to learn the code, but progress was slow and I gave it a break for 9 months. With SKN night approaching, I got back to it and got it down well enough to muddle through a QSO with W... Read More

  • AMPLIDAN #50713 dual adjuster key and for comparison, the harder to find single adjuster AMPLIDAN.

    01/13/2010 | K3PX

    SKN-2010 was an enjoyable event where I made 30 QSO's in 17 states and two Canadian provinces on 160, 80 and 40 meters with 7 different keys from my collection. My first key was a Danish made Amplidan #50713. The Amplidan is said to be a favorite of ma... Read More

  • Collins desk

    01/12/2010 | K1LNL

    Enjoyed another year of SKN. This year I used my restored Collins S-Line barefoot with an old brass key.
    73's
    Carl Read More

  • 01/11/2010 | HP1IBF

    Hi
    2010 SKN was another opportunity to work my old WWII J-45 (a J-37 mounted on a steel clamp that is strapped to the leg). Poor propagation and to many holidays compromises resulted in not to many SKN QSOs. Nonetheless, as years before, I feel very pr... Read More