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2024 ARRL Straight Key Night

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01/06/2026 | AE3A

Operated for a few leisurely hours, as both AE3A (personal call) and, in the spirit of the Year of the Club, W2NYU (New York University ARC). Equipment: Drake TR-7 to an inverted vee; Nye Speed-X straight key. 73 es Happy New Year! Colin Read More
01/01/2026 | vo1na

For SKN 1 January 2026, used the key on the code practice oscillator built by Oscar VO1DI to teach CW to many VO amateurs including VO1RL. Great fun and brought me back to my first days on the air. Some very good fists were there to set a good example... Read More
01/03/2025 | vo1na

This key was one of many bolted to a board at the Trade School for teaching CW in Cyril Foster's Amateur Radio course 50+ years ago. 73 Joe VO1NA Read More
01/03/2025 | vo1na

This key was one of many bolted to a board at the Trade School for teaching CW in Cyril Foster's Amateur Radio course 50+ years ago. 73 Joe VO1NA Read More
01/02/2025 | WA1JXR

New Years Day I had a nice contact and conversation on Morse code CW on the 40 Meter (7 MHz) band with a Ham operator call sign W1WCC. He was operating vintage radio equipment TX Drake T4XB RX Collins 75S3C Ant Dipole at 90'at the Marconi historical ... Read More
01/01/2025 | K2GBH

SKN is an event that I try to participate in each year. I usually just work a hadful of stations. Hearing all of the slow speed CW is like some kind of time machine as the bands sound like they did back in the distant past. It was amusing that the fi... Read More
01/23/2024 | vo1na

Noticed something familiar on the arrl skn 2024 photo so the old VO1FR landline set was made QRV. This was likely the first time it was used with wireless apparatus. 73 & TNX QSOS. Read More
01/17/2024 | WB8DQT

Time Traveling with a Straight Key Amateur Radio traces its origin all the way back to the early years of the 20th Century prior to the Great War.The setting was cacophony of CW spark transmiters on tmedium wave frequencies where scientists, commercial... Read More