SKCC K3Y January Event
For the past 18 years, the Straight Key Century Club has designated January as their special celebration month. Members all over the world sign up to operate as a K3Y station. Last year there were more than 250 different K3Y stations and there were over 50,000 qso’s made by those stations! This year’s event begins at 0000utc on January 2nd. For us, here in Fort Wayne, it will begin Wednesday (January1) night at 7pm local time. Each K3Y station will have a portable designator such as K3Y/1, K3Y/9, K3Y/AS, K3Y/EU etc depending on their call area. Local operators will operate as K3Y/9. The K3Y stations will give a true signal report, their location, name, home call, and SKCC number. If you make contact with a K3Y station, send a true signal report, your state, your name, and your SKCC number or “NONE” if you don’t have a number. This is an all mechanical key event so keyers and computer generated cw are not used. The special K3Y link/page on the SKCC website is loaded with K3Y info and will tell you who is operating along with keeping track of your contacts . . . yes, once you contact a K3Y station and he submits his log, that contact will appear on the K3Y log search and individual stats. This is always a fun event and, if you want to learn more and participate with fellow FWRC members . . .K3Y/9 W9TE Special Event January 11/12
Multi Station at N8KR QTH
So come on by from 7am -9pm Saturday, January 11. You can watch, listen, operate, visit with other members, ask questions, play with a variety of keys . . . if your cw is rusty, sit with a seasoned operator at a station and work together to make contacts. Food and drink and fellowship . . . all around our favorite hobby. Ken’s shack is in a room in the back of the garage and is quite roomy. If you decide to come, there will be a special SKCC SIGN with a garage door opener attached. Push the button, the door will open and come on in! There’s plenty of room! ALSO: the station will be available all Sunday afternoon if you would like to operate one of Ken’s stations.
N8KR Location: 8526 Fox Home Dr. New, Haven, IN – Fox Home is 2 blocks south of Maysville between Long and Landon Roads: accessible from Long Road. (Three blocks from Golden Years)