01/14/2004 | W7OS W7OS is the call of the Antique Radio Museum of the Radio Club of Tacoma located in Tacoma, WA. www.w7dk.org

Some of the "old radio buffs", Morel-W6LIX, Worth-W7WG, and Rich-AE7RW, got together and organized a gathering for Straight Key Night.

The Rig is a World Radio Globe Scout-65 XMTR running about 50 Watts to a link coupled parallel tuned antenna matching circuit and then to a balanced fed (wooden spacers boiled in parafin) 80 meter dipole antenna. The RCVR is a Hammarlund HQ-140X. A J-38 Key from WW2 (made by Lionel) was used as well as an unidentified old key. The station was "rock bound" to 7.010, 7.025, and 7.050 MegaCycles. Power input to the 6146A was 55 Watts. We had a Knight Kit T-50 standing by just incase of difficulty with the Globe Scout.

Three hams operated the station: KK7QW-Pete, KD7SXZ-Roddney, and AE7RW-Rich. 12 QSOs were made with mostly Radio Club members over a period of about 5 hours. The conditions were quite good on 40M.

Quite a few people showed up at the radio clubhouse for this event and all had a good time. -- AE7RW