K3Y Straight Key Month

[Jon MacGahan W2ANZ]

K3Y Straight Key Month runs January 2 through 31. This is one of my favorite on-air activities.  In case you are not familiar, here is the announcement: https://www.skccgroup.com/k3y/k3y.php  It is active on all bands including WARC.  I like that it gives me a feeling for propagation and activity on 12, 17 and 30m. To operate you would need to obtain an SKCC number, but that is easy and free. I'm not a great fan of straight keys nor bugs and I especially dislike cooties but the event is enough fun to make it worthwhile.  I have done well in the last two, with band slot totals in the top 10%.  I heard K3/KH6 on 80m last year but he did not hear me.

73,

Jon, W2ANZ