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Welcome back to HamTalk Live! 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.620 Tower Electronics will be at Montgomery, Alabama 00:05:58.620 --> 00:06:02.220 this weekend for the HamFest there November 19th 00:06:02.220 --> 00:06:06.139 and 20th and then Ocala Florida December 4th 00:06:06.139 --> 00:06:10.120 and Plant City Florida December 10th and 11th 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:17.259 or you can visit them anytime at PL -259 .com 00:06:18.029 --> 00:06:20.649 Well, welcome back to ham talk live tonight, 00:06:20.649 --> 00:06:25.449 uh, Ted K eight AQM and Doug in three PDT and 00:06:25.550 --> 00:06:28.569 And we'll see if we get Ron back here, AC2C. 00:06:28.649 --> 00:06:31.410 They're joining us on the Orlando Amateur Radio 00:06:31.410 --> 00:06:35.509 Club and Hamcation Zoom line tonight. They are 00:06:35.509 --> 00:06:38.170 members of the Strait Key Century Club. The club 00:06:38.170 --> 00:06:41.649 is the most active group of mechanical key Morris 00:06:41.649 --> 00:06:44.870 Code radio telegraph operators in the world. 00:06:45.089 --> 00:06:49.430 The organization was formed in 2006 and sponsors 00:06:49.430 --> 00:06:53.029 events, awards, newsletters, and more. So guys, 00:06:53.129 --> 00:06:56.220 welcome to the show. Now, how about now? Thanks 00:06:56.220 --> 00:06:58.819 for having us. Oh, there we go. Ah, must have 00:06:58.819 --> 00:07:02.060 been the mute button. All right. Very good. Well, 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:05.920 glad you're here and I'm actually doing this 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.199 following up on a story that I was assigned to 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.660 read for amateur radio news line a few weeks 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:16.199 ago that you had a big membership milestone and 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.180 just kind of reminded me about the street key 00:07:18.180 --> 00:07:21.079 century club. So we're going to talk about that 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.800 here in a little bit, but before we get into 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.689 that. Um, let's just talk about the straight 00:07:27.689 --> 00:07:30.610 key century club for a few minutes. So what is 00:07:30.610 --> 00:07:32.949 it and, and what, what are you trying to do? 00:07:33.029 --> 00:07:38.569 What's the mission of SKCC? Well, as you mentioned, 00:07:39.009 --> 00:07:44.230 Neil, the, uh, SKCC started in 2006, early 2006. 00:07:45.149 --> 00:07:49.649 Excuse me. And then, um, right after, um, soon 00:07:49.649 --> 00:07:54.589 after one of the, uh, ARRL. straight key nights, 00:07:54.930 --> 00:07:56.889 which is on New Year's Eve and on New Year's 00:07:56.889 --> 00:08:02.610 Day. Some talk got started on QRZ .com forums, 00:08:05.230 --> 00:08:09.750 and Tom Peterson, KC9ECI, decided, well, this 00:08:09.750 --> 00:08:11.610 sounds like fun, let's start a club, I'll be 00:08:11.610 --> 00:08:15.550 number one. And within, oh gosh, within a couple 00:08:15.550 --> 00:08:18.899 of months. Well, within days there were over 00:08:18.899 --> 00:08:22.720 100 members and it started going exponentially 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:29.720 from there. And of course the purpose is to preserve 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.120 the art of mechanical or manually created Morse 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.059 code. And following the lead of ARRL's event, 00:08:40.509 --> 00:08:44.450 And we don't go with just a straight key. Any 00:08:44.450 --> 00:08:49.269 mechanical key is usable. A bug or a cootie, 00:08:49.330 --> 00:08:52.210 or if you design something that mechanically 00:08:52.210 --> 00:08:55.750 makes the characters and the elements, it's legal 00:08:55.750 --> 00:08:59.889 to use. Okay, very good. Well, I remember getting 00:08:59.889 --> 00:09:05.200 started. with my novice license I was on the 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.919 straight key constantly and did get an electronic 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:13.000 key later on but still use the old straight key 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.899 every once in a while and it's a lot of fun and 00:09:17.899 --> 00:09:20.539 you know it takes a little more a little more 00:09:20.539 --> 00:09:23.820 training because you have to to make sure that 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:26.700 your dits and does are the right length and everything 00:09:27.379 --> 00:09:30.980 So, it's great that you're working on that, keeping 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:33.639 that around. Well, let's talk a little bit about 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:36.659 the membership. You just hit a big milestone, 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.200 so tell us about that and all the excitement. 00:09:41.580 --> 00:09:45.379 Oh, wow. Yeah. We've been watching that membership 00:09:45.379 --> 00:09:51.259 number go up the last few months. Last, oh gosh, 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.500 now I should have wrote down the date, but about 00:09:53.500 --> 00:09:57.000 a month ago, we hit number 25 ,000 and that went 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.299 to a club in Maryland, W4USI. And so we're very 00:10:02.299 --> 00:10:04.620 thankful to have them. I think we're already 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:09.899 over 25 ,100 by now. They just keep rolling in. 00:10:13.019 --> 00:10:17.000 Yeah. I mean, and this is... You know, since 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.759 2006, so it's quite an accomplishment getting 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:25.240 25 ,000 members in that short time. Well, we've 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:27.519 called ourselves the fastest growing CW club 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:32.039 in the world. I'm going to stick to that until 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:38.639 somebody proves me wrong. Well, people usually 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:41.799 think of the straight key as, you know, again, 00:10:41.980 --> 00:10:47.340 just something that you push down on. The bug, 00:10:47.340 --> 00:10:50.860 I remember when the bug thing kind of caught 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:53.879 on and people were like, oh, I don't know if 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:58.539 I can use that thing or not. But you have other 00:10:58.539 --> 00:11:02.200 types of keys that are allowed besides just the 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:07.059 push down on the straight key in those events 00:11:07.059 --> 00:11:09.840 that you sponsor. So talk a little bit about... 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.639 the criteria, and what's considered a straight 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:17.100 key, what's not, and what's allowed in the events 00:11:17.100 --> 00:11:20.879 and what's not. Sure. It's really very simple. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:27.379 If the device you use manually creates the dits 00:11:27.379 --> 00:11:31.000 and does, it's usable. So that's your straight 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:37.200 key, your side swiper or cootie, and your semi 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:40.460 -automatic or bug. that makes the dits with a 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:46.620 spring. A buddy of mine in New Jersey sent me 00:11:46.620 --> 00:11:53.620 a key he made from a big chunk of plastic material 00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:57.379 like you put on a snow plow blade. He put a metal 00:11:57.379 --> 00:12:00.960 plate on it and made kind of a stylus because 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.759 he couldn't – and just by tapping it like you 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.860 would a pen, he kind of rolled his fist a bit. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.299 to make the characters because he had a wrist 00:12:11.299 --> 00:12:13.059 condition and he couldn't use a straight key 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:17.759 or a bug very well. This device qualifies as 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:24.100 a mechanical key. Of course we use those for 00:12:24.100 --> 00:12:29.820 all of our awards and activities. One needs to 00:12:29.820 --> 00:12:35.120 be using some sort of mechanically created Morse 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.389 code. And that includes our sprints. We have 00:12:39.389 --> 00:12:42.110 a weekend sprint -a -thon once a month, 36 hours 00:12:42.110 --> 00:12:45.610 over a Saturday and Sunday. We have a fourth 00:12:45.610 --> 00:12:49.049 Tuesday night local times. We have a two -hour 00:12:49.049 --> 00:12:52.850 sprint. We have, I forget which Thursday of the 00:12:52.850 --> 00:12:56.169 month it is, we have a European sprint. The time 00:12:56.169 --> 00:12:59.830 slot is more conducive to those guys making contacts. 00:13:03.210 --> 00:13:06.070 We have also different kinds of awards and levels 00:13:06.070 --> 00:13:09.070 of achievement. One of our awards we call the 00:13:09.070 --> 00:13:13.289 Triple Key Award, the TKA. And Ted, you may correct 00:13:13.289 --> 00:13:15.450 me on the number, but I believe you have to make 00:13:15.450 --> 00:13:21.490 100 contacts with other SKCC members using each 00:13:21.490 --> 00:13:24.289 key. So you come up with a total of 300 contacts, 00:13:24.529 --> 00:13:27.909 100 on a straight key, 100 on a cootie, 100 on 00:13:27.909 --> 00:13:31.539 a bug. Even more important on that Doug those 00:13:31.539 --> 00:13:36.340 contacts must be unique. So that's 300 unique 00:13:36.340 --> 00:13:40.059 straight key members. Oh very good point. Yes 00:13:40.059 --> 00:13:46.139 You end up working a lot of folks. Yeah And another 00:13:46.139 --> 00:13:49.539 event that Doug didn't mention If I can just 00:13:49.539 --> 00:13:53.299 put this in for those new to CW is what we call 00:13:53.299 --> 00:13:56.860 our straight key saunter which meets the first 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:01.879 of every month, and we ask people not to send 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.059 faster than 12 words a minute. This is to help 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:10.399 newcomers into CW learn the code and participate 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:16.460 in our events. Excellent. Yes. Yeah, a good move, 00:14:16.460 --> 00:14:19.220 you know, to slow it down a little bit and get 00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:23.940 the beginners... a chance to catch up. I know 00:14:23.940 --> 00:14:28.720 my CW skills, you know, while, yeah, I did nothing 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:32.419 but CW for many years, that was a long time ago. 00:14:32.539 --> 00:14:38.919 And so I make one on occasion now. So I'm not 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:43.299 as proficient as I used to be. Uh, so, you know, 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.480 slower is better. So that definitely helps to 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.659 have that option. Now I'm going to, I wanted 00:14:50.659 --> 00:14:54.899 to throw you a question here and I try not to 00:14:54.899 --> 00:14:57.519 throw too many curve balls when I have people 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.379 on the show, but, but this one just happened 00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:03.799 to come to mind. I have an app called, I think 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:08.830 it's Morris it. on my iPhone that I would use 00:15:08.830 --> 00:15:11.710 when I was doing a high school ham radio club. 00:15:12.690 --> 00:15:14.669 Three or four different groups, one to learn 00:15:14.669 --> 00:15:18.629 CW. So I would use that. Now it works like a 00:15:18.629 --> 00:15:24.309 straight key because the tones are only sent 00:15:24.309 --> 00:15:28.870 when I push down on the touchscreen. So I have 00:15:28.870 --> 00:15:33.590 to make the length of my dits and the dots myself. 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:40.000 Would that count as a straight key? So the length 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.000 of the dips and the dots and the spacing of the 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.820 characters is totally controlled by you. It's 00:15:47.820 --> 00:15:54.240 only making a noise. Well, we'd probably all 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.259 have to put our heads together on it and I would 00:15:56.259 --> 00:16:02.580 vote that that would count. Because you're creating, 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.659 you're digitally, by hand, creating Morse code. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.120 Now, how do you get that into a continuous wave 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:15.799 so you can use it on the air? Yeah, yeah, right. 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:20.679 Yeah, you'd have to rig up something to detect 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.980 the sound and then recreate the sound, I guess. 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:28.759 Yeah, I thought, hmm, I'm going to ask that question 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:36.019 just to... Yeah, you still have to have those 00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:39.100 skills of, you know, the dollars, you know, three 00:16:39.100 --> 00:16:42.480 times as long as the debt and, you know, and 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:45.200 the spacing and, you know, doing all that stuff. 00:16:45.299 --> 00:16:50.620 But it is digitally created. So that's a gray 00:16:50.620 --> 00:16:55.460 area, I guess. Give us something to discuss at 00:16:55.460 --> 00:16:58.190 a board meeting. Oh, there you go. You can have 00:16:58.190 --> 00:17:03.370 a committee on that, right? There you go. Yeah, 00:17:03.429 --> 00:17:05.750 have something to talk about in the next meeting. 00:17:06.109 --> 00:17:10.049 So there you go. All right. Well, why don't you 00:17:10.049 --> 00:17:16.650 run down some more of the awards and let people 00:17:16.650 --> 00:17:21.809 know what wallpaper they can get here. Sure. 00:17:21.950 --> 00:17:24.630 Ted, do you want to talk about the... We'll talk 00:17:24.630 --> 00:17:28.829 about the Centurion Tribune and Senator. Sure. 00:17:29.190 --> 00:17:33.210 Sure. Very easy. The Centurion is the first basic 00:17:33.210 --> 00:17:37.849 award and what you have to do is work 100 different 00:17:37.849 --> 00:17:42.240 SKCC members. that will get you a C behind your 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.180 number. Like my number is 1629, and if I got 00:17:46.180 --> 00:17:49.859 the Centurion award, it would be 1629C. And I 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:52.220 would send that from now on so people would know 00:17:52.220 --> 00:17:57.200 I'm a Centurion. The next level is the Tribune, 00:17:57.500 --> 00:18:03.259 which requires 50 C members or T members, Tribune 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:07.220 members. And that's not It used to be hard to 00:18:07.220 --> 00:18:08.940 get because we didn't have that many members, 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:12.839 but now it's quite easy. And then the big one 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:18.700 is the Centurion Award, which requires 400 different 00:18:18.700 --> 00:18:23.440 contacts to get the Centurion Award. So you would 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:29.779 be 1629S, you could be 1629T, you could be 1629C. 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:33.180 So those are the three basic beginning awards. 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:39.009 Go ahead, Doug. Alrighty. And then beyond basically 00:18:39.009 --> 00:18:42.609 achievement levels is how I think of those. We 00:18:42.609 --> 00:18:46.230 also have worked all states, worked all continents, 00:18:46.589 --> 00:18:51.569 DX awards, QRP awards, a mile per watt award, 00:18:52.589 --> 00:18:57.529 a rag chew award, the triple key, the TKA I mentioned 00:18:57.529 --> 00:19:01.329 earlier, also a prefix award that I don't quite 00:19:01.329 --> 00:19:04.890 understand, but it's pretty interesting. to chase 00:19:04.890 --> 00:19:07.529 the different prefixes, and then Canadian Maple 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:09.529 Leaf, which is one of Ted's favorites, by the 00:19:09.529 --> 00:19:13.390 way, who also holds a Canadian call sign. One 00:19:13.390 --> 00:19:17.589 of the neatest awards in my mind that we do, 00:19:17.789 --> 00:19:20.329 and probably one of the most, well, if not the 00:19:20.329 --> 00:19:22.990 most difficult to attain, we call the Marathon 00:19:22.990 --> 00:19:28.269 Award. And you need to have at least 100 QSOS, 00:19:28.630 --> 00:19:34.289 100 unique QSOS. that last at least 60 minutes 00:19:34.289 --> 00:19:38.490 long, obviously with different SKCC members. 00:19:39.769 --> 00:19:42.170 And there's only four of those, I believe, been 00:19:42.170 --> 00:19:44.849 awarded. I think we may have another person getting 00:19:44.849 --> 00:19:48.509 close, but since 2006, only four people have 00:19:48.509 --> 00:19:52.509 achieved that. So that's one of my favorites. 00:19:54.379 --> 00:19:57.160 I'll be right back, guys. I have a dog barking. 00:19:57.700 --> 00:20:01.500 Okay. All right. Well, just in time because we're 00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:03.460 going to take a break here in just a second. 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:07.460 So that's good. But yeah, you've got quite a 00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:10.240 variety of awards there for different levels. 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:16.039 And I think that's a great deal to have different 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:21.400 levels of the awards and different unique things. 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:24.769 So that's very good. There's always something 00:20:24.769 --> 00:20:27.769 to work towards. Yes. Exactly. Always something 00:20:27.769 --> 00:20:31.109 to work toward. All right. Well, if I can get 00:20:31.109 --> 00:20:34.849 my mouse going here, we're going to take a break. 00:20:35.150 --> 00:20:38.589 And when we come back, we will take your phone 00:20:38.589 --> 00:20:43.549 calls and your tweets and comments here on HamTalk 00:20:43.549 --> 00:20:47.150 Live about the Strait Key Century Club. That's 00:20:47.150 --> 00:20:52.019 our topic tonight. 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Again, the 00:22:49.569 --> 00:22:55.769 number to call is 859 -982 -7373. Or, if you'd 00:22:55.769 --> 00:22:59.029 rather type than talk, tweet us at HamTalk Live. 00:22:59.390 --> 00:23:02.849 Now, here's Neil Rapp with more HamTalk Live. 00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:07.019 Here's the snap, Rapp takes the rig, he breaks 00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:10.579 through the pile up, he's on 80, now 40, now 00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:16.519 20, 15, 10, 2 meters, touchdown Hamtok Live! 00:23:37.820 --> 00:23:41.900 Welcome back to HamTalk Live. We're on the air 00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:45.420 every Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time 00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:48.900 right here at HamTalkLive .com and be sure to 00:23:48.900 --> 00:23:52.099 check us out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram 00:23:52.099 --> 00:23:55.339 and you can find out who's coming up on the show 00:23:55.339 --> 00:24:00.180 over at HamTalkLive .com. Well, uh, before we 00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:03.359 get back to, um, the guy is here from the straight 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.319 key century club. Uh, we, we do have our usual 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:13.160 segment, uh, And it's CW themed, guys, so this 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:15.680 is our usual segment right now in this part of 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.900 the show. It's the N9GSU Joke of the Week. Now 00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:23.420 it's time for the HamTalk Live Ham Radio Joke 00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:25.400 of the Week, the part of the show where Rick 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:28.920 tells us a ham radio joke. The HamTalk Live Ham 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.180 Radio Joke of the Week is brought to you by QRM 00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:36.799 Labs. Now, here's Rick Garrett, N9GSU, with today's 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:45.200 HamTalk Live Joke of the Week. week. I inadvertently 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.359 offended a fellow ham, so I sent him an apology 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:53.579 in CW. It was in remorse code. This has been 00:24:53.579 --> 00:24:56.599 the Ham Talk Live Ham Radio Joke of the Week 00:24:56.599 --> 00:25:00.380 with Rick Garrett in 9GSU. Tune in again next 00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:05.740 week for another joke from Rick. Alright, there 00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:11.619 you go guys. Yeah, yeah, I like Ted's Ted's comment 00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:20.839 Ted said ouch Well, thanks Rick for the joke 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:24.440 and we'll be back with another one in the next 00:25:24.440 --> 00:25:29.519 episode of ham talk live That's it nine GSU. 00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:32.920 Thanks a lot All right, well now it's time for 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:35.980 your phone calls. So if you have a question for 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:46.559 Ted or Doug, give us a call at 859 -982 -7373. 00:25:46.819 --> 00:25:54.299 Again, 859 -982 -7373 is the phone number. Give 00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:57.740 us a call right now or you can... comment. If 00:25:57.740 --> 00:26:00.799 you're on Spreaker, you can comment there if 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.339 you've gotten a Spreaker account and you can 00:26:04.339 --> 00:26:08.799 also tweet us. So it's at the if I can talk at 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:13.559 ham talk live on Twitter. And we have a tweet 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:16.799 that we're going to answer here in just a moment. 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:20.799 So you can type to us as well. But if you're 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.740 listening to us on WTWW or on the podcast edition, 00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:28.079 you won't be able to to call us because we're 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:32.859 doing this live on Thursday evening. So we're 00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:35.279 going to talk a little bit more about some of 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.079 the stuff that the Strait Key Century Club does. 00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:43.420 But first, we have a tweet from a listener, Jacob 00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:48.720 KG7EQN, a frequent listener of the show. And 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:53.359 here's what he says as someone learning CW. Where 00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:58.180 is a good place to find SKCC hangouts on different 00:26:58.180 --> 00:27:02.359 bands? I'm coming from the Long Island CW club 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:06.630 and idea of learning Is the straight key century 00:27:06.630 --> 00:27:09.470 club involved in the giving back initiative? 00:27:09.809 --> 00:27:12.470 And do I have to use a straight key? So I guess 00:27:12.470 --> 00:27:15.269 we, we kind of answered the last part, but, but 00:27:15.269 --> 00:27:18.730 let's talk about good places to find a straight 00:27:18.730 --> 00:27:22.009 key century club members on different bands and, 00:27:22.170 --> 00:27:27.869 and, uh, and the giving back. Well, uh, first 00:27:27.869 --> 00:27:30.730 off, thanks Jacob for your, um, your question. 00:27:31.549 --> 00:27:37.839 Uh, we SKCC has recently, um, I don't want to 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:40.980 say partnership, but we're working with LICW. 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.460 We present a class for that group every week 00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:48.019 on SKCC basics, so we're glad to see Jacob over 00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:53.960 here. The best places to find our watering holes 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:57.200 would be, number one, the website, and that is 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:05.460 skccgroup .com. page opens up there's a on the 00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:09.140 left side there's a column of buttons for all 00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:11.119 the different subjects if you go down about I 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.539 think oh three or four from there there's a getting 00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:20.980 started the getting started link and that shows 00:28:20.980 --> 00:28:24.559 you suggested calling frequencies so it's on 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:32.599 the web page skccgroup .com under under the getting 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:38.400 started tabs. Also, we have a sked page where 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:43.160 you can sked your QSOs with other SKCC members 00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:52.000 live in real time, and that is sked .skccgroup 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:56.119 .com. And I bring that up because if you go to 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.819 that page and look along the bottom, There's 00:28:58.819 --> 00:29:02.079 just a line that says SKCC frequencies and it 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:06.460 shows you our watering holes. Plus you can see 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:09.339 the SCED page, which is a great tool for finding 00:29:09.339 --> 00:29:15.019 other SKCC members. As for giving back, we have, 00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:17.519 I'm not sure if we're official. Ted, do you know 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:20.059 if we're an official partner in that? I know 00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:22.670 that some of us participate. No, we're not an 00:29:22.670 --> 00:29:24.890 official part, but I'd like to add one thing 00:29:24.890 --> 00:29:28.650 for Jacob. If he is not an SKCC member, or even 00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:34.190 if he is, most SKCCers will answer somebody not 00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:36.630 using the straight key. I mean, if I'm calling 00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:41.150 CQ and somebody calls me and they're not using 00:29:41.150 --> 00:29:45.400 the straight key, I'll answer them. We can't 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.299 count it as a valid SKCC QSO, but it is a legitimate 00:29:49.299 --> 00:29:52.539 QSO, and we'll do it. Also, just to point out, 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.119 on 40 meters and 20 meters, we have an area for 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:01.640 beginners, and that's usually like 7 .114 or 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:07.759 14 .114. Those are the real slow beginners area. 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:10.180 Go ahead, Doug. Yeah, thanks for bringing that 00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:15.230 up. Covered a couple things. I miss I appreciate 00:30:15.230 --> 00:30:20.410 that All right, well Jacob thanks for for asking 00:30:20.410 --> 00:30:24.509 that Doug you have something else there No, I 00:30:24.509 --> 00:30:28.410 was just stammering my way out. Oh, okay Well 00:30:28.410 --> 00:30:31.509 Jacob, thanks for listening as always and and 00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:34.970 we hope we've answered your question So if you 00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:37.250 have a question, give us a call right now at 00:30:37.250 --> 00:30:43.859 eight five nine 9827373 or tweet us like Jacob 00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:48.720 did over at ham talk live on Twitter and We'll 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:53.200 get as many questions in as we can Well, this 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:59.259 next one is going to go to Ted Because he's the 00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:05.500 the newsletter guru here so tell us about The 00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:08.700 newsletters and you know, how much news is there 00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:12.460 about straight keys? You know to put in a newsletter 00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:17.039 Well, first of all, I'll tell you it's a quarterly 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:22.180 newsletter and much of it is submitted by members 00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:26.660 which include articles about antennas key restoration 00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:31.160 and building technical tips mini DX trips that 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.380 they go on to allow us to work various states 00:31:34.380 --> 00:31:39.579 and activity results of our events including 00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:42.700 pictures of various stations and comments for 00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:48.940 the work weekend sprint, the slow speed saunter 00:31:48.940 --> 00:31:54.559 and just all upcoming events are mentioned and 00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:57.700 it usually ends up to be pretty close to 70 pages 00:31:57.700 --> 00:32:02.039 every quarter. And it's free and downloadable 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:05.799 on the web. Well, there we go. There's the big 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:12.380 word, free. Very good. It's so nice, if I can 00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:16.460 to the horn, it is so nice to read a newsletter 00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:23.440 that takes me more than one sitting. Yeah, very 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:28.640 good. Well, let's talk about some of the events 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:33.380 and Contests, sprints, those kinds of things. 00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:36.279 We talked about the awards. Let's talk about 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.940 some of the events. Sure. Well, Doug, I think 00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:42.539 you should definitely tell them about the K3Y 00:32:42.539 --> 00:32:45.420 event. I was just getting ready to say you should 00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:49.400 tell them about that. But I'll start and you 00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:51.380 can fill in. We can draw straws if you want. 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.880 K3Y event, that is our annual anniversary event, 00:32:59.940 --> 00:33:03.660 and we do that the entire month of January. We 00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:06.880 apply for the call sign K3Y. If you write it 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.779 down, it looks like key. It didn't start off 00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:12.299 that way. It took us three years to get there. 00:33:13.140 --> 00:33:17.160 They went K1Y, K2Y, and then K3Y, all of a sudden, 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:22.059 well, oh, we'll keep that one. We activate all 00:33:22.059 --> 00:33:27.980 10 call districts, most US possessions. I think 00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:31.700 like sometimes Guam didn't get in there. A lot 00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:36.799 of Western Europe gets activated, Oceania, occasionally 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:41.799 Asia, but we spend that month trying to contact 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:48.700 all the different call districts and entities. 00:33:55.649 --> 00:34:00.089 welcome to take the call. So like I operate as 00:34:00.089 --> 00:34:04.549 K3Y -0, I don't know, 10 or 15 times during that 00:34:04.549 --> 00:34:11.570 month. And we get to experience being the object 00:34:11.570 --> 00:34:14.750 of a small pileup. We get to reconnect with folks 00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:17.710 we hadn't talked much with over the year. But 00:34:17.710 --> 00:34:21.150 we spent an entire month just lighting up those 00:34:21.150 --> 00:34:25.139 areas of We call it the SKC areas of the bands 00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:31.420 with mechanically created code. Also, in last 00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:35.019 year's event alone, Neil, in one month's time, 00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:42.380 there were 46 ,000 K3Y contacts. Wow. 43 ,000. 00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:46.380 Very impressive. We also have a similar event 00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:51.079 now that's just started in October. for Canadian 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.599 operators exclusively to allow members to work 00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:58.719 all the various provinces and work on some of 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:03.039 the Canadian awards that SKCC offers. This year 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:08.599 we ran VE9 SKCC. We got too many complaints about 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:14.440 glass arms that the call was too long. We're 00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:18.559 going to opt for CK3Y, which fits very nicely 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:23.159 with K3Y and is available Canadian call. So that's 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:26.119 for the entire month of September. Our first 00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:29.579 inaugural event, we made nearly 1 ,500 contacts. 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:36.260 So it was a lot of fun. Those are our big events. 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:43.119 Excuse me. We also, of course, have many other 00:35:43.179 --> 00:35:47.139 Monthly events and I'll get my notes back up 00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:53.519 here. We have a two hour sprint that is on the 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:58.139 fourth Tuesday of the month. We call that the 00:35:58.139 --> 00:36:02.320 straight key sprint or the SKS. We have a 36 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:06.039 hour event on the second, beginning the second 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:09.980 Saturday of the month. We call that the weekend 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:13.559 sprint -a -thon. That's 36 hours starting on 00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.719 a Saturday morning and going through Sunday evening. 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.719 That's very popular. There's also the European 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:25.739 sprint I mentioned earlier. It's a two -hour 00:36:25.739 --> 00:36:29.139 event on the first Thursday of each month. It's 00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:37.420 tied to British Standard Time. Oh yes, absolutely. 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:41.000 When we're not sprinting and we're just making 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:45.320 contacts for fun and contacting other SKCC folks, 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.679 we can log those in our BRAG log and we turn 00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:53.260 those in once a month. Some folks turn in two 00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:55.199 or three and some folks turn in two or three 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:59.679 hundred. That's a good one. There was one other 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:01.159 I was going to mention though, the slow speed 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:05.059 saunter and also The first of the month beginning 00:37:05.059 --> 00:37:09.159 at 000 UTC, this is a straight key night for 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:11.719 the next 24 hours. There's nothing to turn in 00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:16.440 on that. It's not tracked in any way. We just 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.800 get on and try to make some noise on the airways. 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.360 And one thing to make clear, Neil, when we talk 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.360 about sprints, one does not sprint in the CW 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:34.269 world with a straight key. The speed has nothing 00:37:34.269 --> 00:37:38.250 to do with the word sprint Yes, it's a time. 00:37:38.269 --> 00:37:43.010 It's a time issue. It's a time Okay, I just want 00:37:43.010 --> 00:37:44.989 to make sure that your listeners didn't think 00:37:44.989 --> 00:37:47.590 we were going 30 35 words a minute on the straight 00:37:47.590 --> 00:37:51.510 key Yeah, if you can get up to 70 words a minute 00:37:51.510 --> 00:37:53.969 on a straight key. We've got a very special award 00:37:53.969 --> 00:37:59.210 for you, right? And hopefully I can pay for my 00:37:59.210 --> 00:38:01.530 medical expenses too. I think it would be called 00:38:01.530 --> 00:38:05.690 a liar's club award. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. 00:38:06.550 --> 00:38:10.329 Oh my goodness. Well, guys, we're about to finish 00:38:10.329 --> 00:38:14.949 up here and I don't see any more questions from 00:38:14.949 --> 00:38:19.590 the audience here. So let me just give it. to 00:38:19.590 --> 00:38:22.690 you one last time to make any final comments. 00:38:22.829 --> 00:38:25.389 And then we've got a couple of things to tend 00:38:25.389 --> 00:38:29.110 to here before we sign off tonight. Well, first 00:38:29.110 --> 00:38:32.329 off, thank you once again for graciously inviting 00:38:32.329 --> 00:38:36.130 us, Neil. We appreciate that. And I've had a 00:38:36.130 --> 00:38:39.329 lot of fun. I would just like to encourage anyone 00:38:39.329 --> 00:38:42.809 who has any interest at all to go to skccgroup 00:38:42.809 --> 00:38:46.650 .com. Check out our website. It is free to join. 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.000 And no obligation. And it's a lifelong thing, 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.380 too. There's no renewal. Once you get an SKCC 00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:01.079 number, it's yours forever. And we'd love to 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:04.159 have you. Ted, you got anything? No, I think 00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:06.639 you pretty much covered it all, Doug. And I'll 00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.380 just add, Neil, thank you very much for the opportunity 00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:11.719 to tell you about the Strait Key Century Club. 00:39:12.670 --> 00:39:16.309 Well, I appreciate you being here and Congratulations 00:39:16.309 --> 00:39:21.750 on 25 ,000. That's thank you fabulous and all 00:39:21.750 --> 00:39:24.090 the great events at awards that you're doing 00:39:24.090 --> 00:39:28.610 and I Found my my straight key in the basement 00:39:28.610 --> 00:39:31.230 the other day I may have to I may have to get 00:39:31.230 --> 00:39:34.329 it hooked back up again and soon as I go to this 00:39:34.329 --> 00:39:41.610 new house and get on We'll go to the sked .skccgroup 00:39:41.610 --> 00:39:45.429 .com page and we'll get together and try that 00:39:45.429 --> 00:39:49.090 key out. Alright. Sounds great. Well, thanks 00:39:49.090 --> 00:39:51.030 guys for coming on the show. We've got a couple 00:39:51.030 --> 00:39:53.889 things to tend to and then I'll be back with 00:39:53.889 --> 00:39:57.670 you, but thanks a lot for being here. Thank you. 00:39:57.750 --> 00:40:02.940 Our pleasure. All right. Well that is a wrap 00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:05.460 for this week's edition of ham talk live. Thanks 00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:11.500 to my guests Ted K8 AQM and Doug N3 PDT and everybody 00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:13.880 out there in cyberspace for listening and calling 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:18.579 in and Invite you back all in two weeks. I'm 00:40:18.579 --> 00:40:21.480 gonna take next week off for Thanksgiving. So 00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:25.659 Enjoy your Thanksgiving and come back Thursday, 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:29.730 December 2nd uh... at nine p m eastern time for 00:40:29.730 --> 00:40:32.530 a list of our upcoming guest visit ham talk live 00:40:32.530 --> 00:40:35.869 dot com and don't forget about the remote license 00:40:35.869 --> 00:40:43.110 test giveaway uh... go to win w i n dot ham talk 00:40:43.110 --> 00:40:47.630 live dot com to read the rules and enter the 00:40:47.630 --> 00:40:50.690 giveaway and again the deadline is november thirtieth 00:40:50.690 --> 00:40:53.929 so uh... this will be the uh... the last time 00:40:53.929 --> 00:40:58.159 that i'll be talking about it uh... here on the 00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:02.619 show. We'll make sure we publicize it on our 00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:07.119 social media outlets again before the end of 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:09.880 the month. But go over there and register and 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.280 you could win a free upgrade or if you haven't 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:18.840 got a license yet, well now's a great time, we'll 00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:22.659 pay for the fee. uh... tanner w nine t w j's 00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:26.440 graciously uh... donated that so uh... he can 00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:30.599 uh... take care of your your testing needs so 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:33.980 uh... before we sign off tonight uh... i wanted 00:41:33.980 --> 00:41:38.400 to take a moment uh... got some sad news on tuesday 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.019 and uh... wanted to take a moment to remember 00:41:41.019 --> 00:41:45.159 a very special silent key uh... tuesday night 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.400 uh... if you haven't heard uh... green county 00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:54.789 ohio sheriff gene fisher KX8GCS had a medical 00:41:54.789 --> 00:42:00.610 emergency and became a silent key. When he became 00:42:00.610 --> 00:42:05.210 a ham, I remember he went all in. He started 00:42:05.210 --> 00:42:10.329 off knowing everyone and getting all kinds of 00:42:10.329 --> 00:42:13.650 stuff, all kinds of support, and he just jumped 00:42:13.650 --> 00:42:17.739 in and went. Uh, all in, he was a tremendous 00:42:17.739 --> 00:42:20.119 friend to the Dayton hamvention, which is now 00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:23.139 held in green County. I believe that's where 00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:26.599 he actually was introduced to ham radio was, 00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:30.400 was with trying to take care of traffic situations 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:33.730 for hamvention. He often stood at the front gate 00:42:33.730 --> 00:42:37.210 and welcomed everyone on their way into Hamvention 00:42:37.210 --> 00:42:40.170 and he was instrumental in solving some of those 00:42:40.170 --> 00:42:43.769 traffic flow issues that first year and at the 00:42:43.769 --> 00:42:47.050 new place and made sure people were safe and 00:42:47.050 --> 00:42:51.090 make everyone feel welcome. He's been on this 00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:55.170 program a few times as well. We'd have him on 00:42:55.170 --> 00:42:58.250 the night before Hamvention and talk about traffic 00:42:58.250 --> 00:43:00.429 and road construction and that kind of thing. 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:03.460 And one night he was supposed to call in and 00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:06.000 couldn't. And the next morning I got to Hamvention 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:09.460 and he apologized and gave me this special Green 00:43:09.460 --> 00:43:13.000 County challenge coin, which I still have. And 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:17.400 so I just was saddened to hear this happened. 00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:20.579 I think he was 65, I think is what I read in 00:43:20.579 --> 00:43:24.780 the Daily News today. But he often traveled with 00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:27.739 Hamvention staff to other hamfests, including 00:43:27.739 --> 00:43:31.309 Hamcation, and became a part of their team. And 00:43:31.309 --> 00:43:33.710 he was attending an Ohio sheriff's conference 00:43:33.710 --> 00:43:36.989 when he had the medical emergency and and died 00:43:36.989 --> 00:43:40.429 So our prayers are with his wife and family and 00:43:40.429 --> 00:43:43.710 and the entire Dayton ham vincen family as well 00:43:43.710 --> 00:43:48.710 because He was such a friend to ham vincen. So 00:43:48.710 --> 00:43:59.530 Remembering gene Fisher kx8 GCS All right, well 00:44:00.789 --> 00:44:04.969 We'll take a week off for Thanksgiving and come 00:44:04.969 --> 00:44:07.929 back. We've got some shows lined up. I just want 00:44:07.929 --> 00:44:10.869 to make sure that we have the dates confirmed 00:44:10.869 --> 00:44:14.230 before we announce those, but we've got some 00:44:14.230 --> 00:44:16.989 cool stuff coming up, so make sure you tune in 00:44:16.989 --> 00:44:20.150 here in a couple of weeks, and happy Thanksgiving. 00:44:20.409 --> 00:44:23.489 So for now, this is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 00:44:23.489 --> 00:44:44.880 7 -3, 7 -5, and may the good DX be yours. You 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:48.920 never once mentioned your weather at all and 00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:54.199 I didn't mention mine We talked and talked for 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:55.400 hours and hours