{"id":6734,"date":"2024-01-01T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-straight-key-night-at-n2cqr-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"happy-new-year-straight-key-night-at-n2cqr-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-straight-key-night-at-n2cqr-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!  Straight Key Night at N2CQR (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCpxDt2o0yM?si=8Iu4S29mrUiliYN1?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>As you know, here at SolderSmoke East HQ we are all about TRADITION. So last night (New Year&#8217;s eve) I fired up my venerable HT-37 \/ Drake 2-B combo and made a few Straight Key Night (SKN) contacts on 40 meter CW. I was indeed using my straight key. Video above. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Also, be sure to check out CuriousMarc&#8217;s very cool New Year&#8217;s clock video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZmEz-Y1FFM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YZmEz-Y1FFM<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b>Happy New Year to all. May you make good progress on your homebrew projects, and may the radio gods act favorably on your behalf. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>73 es HNY de N2CQR <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, here at SolderSmoke East HQ we are all about TRADITION. So last night (New Year&#8217;s eve) I fired up my venerable HT-37 \/ Drake 2-B combo and made a few Straight Key Night (SKN) contacts on 40 meter CW. I was indeed using my straight key. Video above. Also, be sure to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-straight-key-night-at-n2cqr-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year!  Straight Key Night at N2CQR (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,116,6,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40-meters","category-cw","category-drake-2b","category-hallicrafters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11248,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}