{"id":8959,"date":"2018-01-06T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/01\/06\/straight-key-night-at-n2cqr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:41:12","slug":"straight-key-night-at-n2cqr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/01\/06\/straight-key-night-at-n2cqr\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Key Night at N2CQR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I did my part for the retro-Luddite-CW-Straight Key cause. My HT-37 was kind of wheezing. I may have to go in there to striaghten it out. At times I had it cranked back to less than 5W (to maintain some semblence of QRP street cred). <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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A highlight was the QSO with Jim W1PID. Jim is a well-known QRPer and a friend of QRP Hero Mike Rainey. Jim and I talked last year — same date, same event, same rig. Jim has a really nice web site: http:\/\/www.w1pid.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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My nephew Jeffrey joined me for the last two contacts. He got a real kick out of it, both the CW and the SSB. <\/b><\/div>\n

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31 December 2017<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
17S P49MR Martin \u2013 Back in the islands! Like an annual QSO. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW Pre SKN W1PID on 40 with my HT-37. An annual event! Jim running 75 watts<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW SKN KF5RBR Dan in AR. <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
1 January 2018 <\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW SKN W8HOG SKCC 87750 Perry in Ohio<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW SKN N1CGP Dave in Maine using J37 key<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW SKN WB4JJJ Al in Fairfax<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
40CW SKN K8SRB Stan in Ohio (with nephew Jeffrey with me)<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n


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17SSB WJ2N Andy in Florida (with Jeffrey in the QSO)<\/b><\/o:p><\/span>

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I did my part for the retro-Luddite-CW-Straight Key cause. My HT-37 was kind of wheezing. I may have to go in there to striaghten it out. At times I had it cranked back to less than 5W (to maintain some semblence of QRP street cred). A highlight was the QSO with Jim W1PID. Jim is … Continue reading “Straight Key Night at N2CQR”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,59,100,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-hallicrafters","category-old-radio","category-rainey-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","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=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}