TECHNIQUE OF HAND SENDING

http://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.23735

A great little film from history.

IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE TRANSMITTER, TENSION SPRING, ADJUSTING CONTACTS, AND ADJUSTING SPRINGS. ELEMENTS OF MORSE CODE, TIMING, AND PARTS OF BODY THAT FUNCTION WHEN TRANSMITTING CODE. IMPORTANCE OF CORRECT POSITION AND OPERATION

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Mark Hogan

K3Y with a Bug

Well I swept it twice now once at 3 watts and one at 2 watts.  Tonight gave me LA and MO at .5 watts each from my Johnson Speed-X 114-500 bug, happy days here. This drops my QRP sweep to 17 watts overall. 

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Mark Hogan

SKCC Sweep!

Well after many long years I finally decided to stick with CW and have seen the fruits of my work.  He is my sweep ticket, with the QRP tic in the corner.  I will now have to spend the next few weeks trying to make my attic antenna understand it can work DX...I'd like a WAC qrp out of this SKCC event...hey I can dream can't I?

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Mark Hogan

K3Y-SK QRP

Ok so ya leave your iPad in the wife's car and have to work the SKCC Sked page from 2 iPhones. Glad work buys one. Then Ya hear VA5LF and run 3 watts his way, bingo the KX3 strikes again. Still missing a 2 though... 

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Mark Hogan

K3Y Update

Well it's fun, so far 0,3,4,6,7 & 9 were heard by my home made DX-EE from my KX3 qrp keyed by me and my mini  Vibroplex which has my badge number as its SN. What luck getting that!  I'm swapping to my Mini Schurr for the rest of you. 

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Chasing K3Y

My K3Y bird dog is having trouble keeping up with all this excitement! The little QRP radio has hit 4 regions 6 to go...

Meanwhile Indy shows her interest. 

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K3Y

First K3Y contact was on 30m after I rebuilt (they're  still wrong) the coils on my home made DX-EE!  Its fun to run QRP to the cloud, the real cloud.  

Rig was the KX3 the tiny Vibroplex on the desk shelf next to the keyboard.  

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