2006 ARRL Straight Key Night
01/18/2006 |
KI4CIA
This was my first Straight Key Night as well. In fact, I'd only been on CW for four months!! I had a blast - made 9 contacts in about 7 hours. I've already gotten over 20 QSO's this month alone, which is more than the total I had for the four months prior.
My most interesting QSO was my first SKN QSO with fellow Alabamian, AI4FP, who I also consider my "traffic elmer" - he puts up with my questions, so he might as well have the title, right? :-)
And a club has even been started from this event. Tom, KC9ECI, started the "Straight Key Century Club". We'll have SKN's once a month, we've even set up calling frequencies - even in the novice portions of the bands. There's already over 500 members. If any of you are interested in joining, check out the SKCC website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skcc/. You can get SKCC numbers by sending an email to Tom at tom@galesvillefiredepartment.org. Don't Yahoo!? Threads have been started on QRZ and SPAR and we hope to have one on eHam in the next day or so.
73 and hope to catch you on the air!
Melinda -- KI4CIA
My most interesting QSO was my first SKN QSO with fellow Alabamian, AI4FP, who I also consider my "traffic elmer" - he puts up with my questions, so he might as well have the title, right? :-)
And a club has even been started from this event. Tom, KC9ECI, started the "Straight Key Century Club". We'll have SKN's once a month, we've even set up calling frequencies - even in the novice portions of the bands. There's already over 500 members. If any of you are interested in joining, check out the SKCC website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skcc/. You can get SKCC numbers by sending an email to Tom at tom@galesvillefiredepartment.org. Don't Yahoo!? Threads have been started on QRZ and SPAR and we hope to have one on eHam in the next day or so.
73 and hope to catch you on the air!
Melinda -- KI4CIA
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