ARRL Straight Key Night: A Time to Celebrate the Beginnings of Amateur Radio

[ARRL]

From the very beginnings of Amateur Radio, there was Morse code. To celebrate and remember this heritage, the ARRL sponsors Straight Key Night each year on New Year’s Eve. Straight Key Night is a special time to break out that old straight key or bug, maybe use some vintage gear and make some QSOs that call back to a simpler time. No fast exchanges, no sequential serial numbers --just get on th...





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[office888]

Maybe next year! I need to build a Hartley oscillator based transmitter so I can get down on the 20s & 30s action.

 

[hookedon6]

Maybe next year! I need to build a Hartley oscillator based transmitter so I can get down on the 20s & 30s action.

hey!!!! I can borrow my neighbors welder,................. and do some spark gap:blink::blink::blink:

 

[office888]

hey!!!! I can borrow my neighbors welder,................. and do some spark gap:blink::blink::blink:

Don't get mad when I tell you to buzz off.

:laugh:

Harley oscillator transmitters are neat. I'd be QRP, but it would be fun.