{"id":8133,"date":"2013-01-03T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/arduino-does-straight-key-night\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T22:46:00","slug":"arduino-does-straight-key-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/arduino-does-straight-key-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Does Straight Key Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rn7Ky9Ib7ug\" width=\"450\"><\/iframe> <br \/> <span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div align=\"LEFT\" style=\"line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 1.9in;\">\n<div align=\"LEFT\" style=\"line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 1.9in;\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"LEFT\" style=\"line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.93in;\"> <\/div>\n<div align=\"LEFT\" style=\"line-height: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.01in;\"> <b><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Bill,<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\"> Hope a good Christmas and excellent New Year. Here at WA6ARA we <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">had a blast for Straight Key night . In the past I have used new keys, <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">old keys and multiple keys. This year we celebrated SKN with a little <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">twist. At Pacificon I purchased a hugh CW key, all made out of wood, <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">about 3 times the normal size J-38. This isn&#8217;t a QLF key but a piece <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">of beautiful wood working, and fully functional. This was my main key <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">for SKN.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">But SKN can require the sending of CQ SKN for a considerable amount of <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">time. Normally a programed keyer would do the job fine. But this is <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">not in the true spirit of SKN, the use of the straight key. So, using <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">a trusty Arduino board and a few lines of programming, I solved the <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">practical and ethical problem. The Arduino drives a model airplane <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">servo. The servo is positioned such that it&#8217;s arm presses down on a <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">miniature J-38 key, thus sending the &#8220;CQ SKN&#8221;. Also the miniature <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">J-38, about half size, sort of balances out the larger size of the<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">hand key, and keeps the universe in check. I&#8217;ve enclosed a short <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">youtube for your viewing enjoyment<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Rn7Ky9Ib7ug\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #003399; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Rn7Ky9Ib7ug<\/a><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">73<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">&#8212; <\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Mike Herr<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">WA6ARA<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">DM-15dp<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-align: -webkit-auto;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;\">Home of The QRP Ranch<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill, Hope a good Christmas and excellent New Year. Here at WA6ARA we had a blast for Straight Key night . In the past I have used new keys, old keys and multiple keys. This year we celebrated SKN with a little twist. At Pacificon I purchased a hugh CW key, all made out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/arduino-does-straight-key-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arduino Does Straight Key Night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,169,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cw","category-keyers","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","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=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}