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01/15/2004 | N2KZ
In 1968, I built a Heathkit HW-16 and matching HG-10B VFO with my Dad looking over my shoulder. I would listen to it for hours trying to learn the code along with practicing with a buzzer key complete with a big D cell battery. I never was able to pass... Read More
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01/15/2004 | K6JEY
Didn't get any boatanchors on but did use my old Signal Electric brass key and a TS930S/AT. The highlight was not only talking with K6KPH on two bands but copying their LF message on 426 khz. (KPH is a resurrected ship to shore station run by hams up n... Read More
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01/15/2004 | N2JJF
What a great idea SKN is!!!
I am an ex marine radio officer and never had a qso with any other ex R/O until SKN. Due to work constraints I only had time for 2 contacts
and the first contact was with VE1ZF.He was an ex r/o and we had a wonderful 40 minu... Read More -
01/14/2004 | N5VWN
Really enjoy it this year. 2nd time I've done it and I felt like a drunk with that straight key. hi hi! Thanks to all the hams who came back to my 5 watt sloppy signal. KM6XO John nice qsl card guy, (he said mine was the first qsl he'd gotten in a ye... Read More
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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... Read More -
01/12/2004 | W2RJJ
As soon as i turned on the radio, one hour into SKN, I could hear there were lots more participants than in previous years. I worked 24 stations, and, as usual, the ops were great to chat with.
I started with a J-38 and finished with my British Air Min... Read More -
01/11/2004 | N1FZ
I had a great qso with WB9CIS and we found out that we also had a cw qso in 1996 he is a retired industrial electrician from Illinois and I am currently an electrician too! My rig is a Ten -Tec OMNI 6 and my key is an antique Nathaniel Baldwin key... Read More
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01/11/2004 | K9VKY
Though a little light on the number of contacts at 22, the 2004 SKN contacts using 52 year old glow-in-the-dark equipment and the J-38 from my mentor, W9FUF, were of quality rather than quantity. Many QSOs were well over an hour long, and the 2+ hour ... Read More
