NAQP - CW

[Ray Albers]

Did anyone else play in this contest yesterday?  Things were quite active!  

I have great feelings of nostalgia for ten meters because I worked a lot of ten meter AM phone as a kid. After school I often rode my bike down to the Municipal Building, where we had a Civil Defence radio room in the basement, get the key from the police desk sergeant, and go operate the Viking ][ transmitter and HQ-120 receiver, connected to the quarter wave ground plane vertical on the roof. Sometimes had a rag chew with a ham who was driving home from work, with a mobile setup in his Studebaker. (CD, Studebakers, AM phone - guess I'm dating myself!). Anyway, I really enjoyed making Q's on ten, which was open to CA, WA, AZ, CO, etc most of the afternoon. Eighty was nice, too, in the evening. Only DX was PR and Netherland Antilles. 

Several times I called CQ for  while, with zero responses.  So all contacts 
S & P, struggling to copy the speed demons.  Lots of time outs (5-1/2 hours butt-in-chair).

73,

Ray K2HYD  

[Jeff Rinehart]

You did very well Ray.  I had planned to work the NAQP CW but have been a bit under the weather for several days.  I worked a dozen or so POTA stations today but couldn't get deeply involved in anything as Mother Nature was all out of whack for me.

Glad you had some fun and looks like you made some good contacts.  I never have an HQ 120 but as a Novice I did have an HQ 145 receiver for a while. I had a Johnson Viking 2 transmitter that I used on 40 and 80 meter CW for a while - man what a transmitter - You know it had to be "good" because of all the knobs - and it was only a Transmitter - Hi.  Here's a picture I found of that transmitter.

"Those Were the Days"!!

First CW equipment:

borrowed Hallicrafters SX-99 with Heath AT-1 transmitter - and a handfull of crystals.

Hammarlund HQ-145 with a Globe Scout transmitter - more crystals!

Jeff Rinehart   W4PJW

https://www.qrz.com/db/W4PJW

540 294-0976 (Jeff cell)

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[Ray Albers]

Thanks for that picture, Jeff! Brought back more memories- the crank handle on the big knob, which turned the roller inductor in the Pi network final! And the bat-handle Transmit switch in the lower right corner. Before I got my ticket, my Elmers would let me talk on the radio but only they were allowed to operate that switch! 

73 do K2HYD