{"id":466,"date":"2017-06-24T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/straight-key-qrp-homebrew-adventures-trghs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:10:35","slug":"straight-key-qrp-homebrew-adventures-trghs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/straight-key-qrp-homebrew-adventures-trghs\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Key QRP Homebrew Adventures &#8212; TRGHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SKCC.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"159\" data-original-width=\"690\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SKCC.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <b>Last Saturday I put the<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/a-fishy-rig-herring-aid-five-tuna-tin.html\"> Tuna Tin Two Top together with my Herring Aid Five <\/a>38 (year) Special and the Indian key that Farhan gave me. I discovered that some of my 40 meter CW FT243 crystals had disappeared into the entropy of the shack. But I was able to find one for 7050 kHz. That was a bit of good luck because it turns out that 7050 is the frequency of a congenial group of operators known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skccgroup.com\/#generic_bmark\">Straight Key Century Club.<\/a> I felt right at home. I have been inducted. My SKCC number is 17272. Very QRP, don&#8217;t you think? It is almost a Vanity SKCC. Clearly, TRGHS. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>I have been having excellent luck with this 7 transistor rig. I have had one contact each day since I put it on the air, all of them in response to my CQ calls. I&#8217;ve worked: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>K1PUG Hank in Connecticut (twice)<\/b><br \/> <b>W8HOG Jerry in Ohio<\/b><br \/> <b>WA4GQG Kevin in North Carolina<\/b><br \/> <b>WA2AAW Frank in New York<\/b><br \/> <b>KM4FO Dwight in Kentucky<\/b> <\/p>\n<div> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div> <b>This morning I added a little piezo buzzer for sidetone. I am thinking of adding a VFO to the Tuna Tin. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I put the Tuna Tin Two Top together with my Herring Aid Five 38 (year) Special and the Indian key that Farhan gave me. I discovered that some of my 40 meter CW FT243 crystals had disappeared into the entropy of the shack. But I was able to find one for 7050 kHz. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/straight-key-qrp-homebrew-adventures-trghs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Straight Key QRP Homebrew Adventures &#8212; TRGHS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,35,167,169,87,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-direct-conversion","category-herring-aid-5","category-keyers","category-qrp","category-tuna-tin-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}