{"id":6885,"date":"2020-01-25T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/wild-woody-warc-keys\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:53:53","slug":"wild-woody-warc-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/wild-woody-warc-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Woody WARC Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the NAQCC newsletter: “The key is Dave’s own unique invention called the WILD WOODY WARC KEY, and each key is consecutively serial numbered. (My key is number 476). WILD WOODY WARC KEYs have a place of honor in the ARRL Headquarters, and in the offices of Kewnwood, Icom and other such places. Dave, as some of you may know writes a monthy column for CQ Magazine and is the author of several books on keys, QRP operation and other subjects. The WILD WOODY WARC KEY is pictured below. Ingenous simplicity — a true work of wonder. Thank you Dave.”<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n
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I post this for several reasons. <\/b><\/div>\n

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1) A friend recently complained that telegraph keys are getting expensive. “Ha!” I said. This proves me right. Clothes pins are not expensive. <\/b><\/div>\n

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2) I think we should make more use of clothes pins in ham radio. They were used in my 20\/15 meter dipole in the Dominican Republic. <\/b><\/div>\n

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3) I worked K4TWJ several times — twice from the Dominican Republic, and once from Virginia using a homebrew transceiver that he had inspired. He was pleased. It was cool. <\/b><\/div>\n

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4) As a little kid, I liked Woody the Woodpecker. <\/b><\/div>\n

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4) On Thursday morning my wife and I saw a Pileated Woodpecker (just like Woody!) in our neighborhood. TRGHS. <\/b><\/div>\n

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From the NAQCC newsletter: “The key is Dave’s own unique invention called the WILD WOODY WARC KEY, and each key is consecutively serial numbered. (My key is number 476). WILD WOODY WARC KEYs have a place of honor in the ARRL Headquarters, and in the offices of Kewnwood, Icom and other such places. Dave, as … Continue reading “Wild Woody WARC Keys”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","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=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}