San Antonio Hams

2009 “Straight Key Night” begins at 7:00 p.m. EST December 31, 2008 and runs for 24 hours through 7:00 p.m. EST January 1, 2009 (0000 – 2400 UTC January 1, 2009).

SKN is more of an operating event and not a contest and you don’t need to operate during the entire event. To participate, simply send “CQ SKN” or listen for CQs that have SKN in them. The object of this friendly event is to enjoy some good old-fashioned QSO fun, using straight keys and not keyers or computers. The emphasis is on rag-chewing rather than fast contest-style exchanges.

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I don’t know about the rest of you out there, but I had a wonderful Christmas this year with my family all around me, and no emergency calls from the EOC asking for hams to staff the radios due so airplanes being stranded in town, or a fluke snow storm shutting down the highways and stranding travelers here, etc.

I’ve started working on the list of known events for 2009, with the help of Gary K5GST. My focus has been first on what events the REACT Team has been sponsoring, just because I have more info on them at hand, and then adding in all the other area club events, or charity events that I know are annual events.   I’ll be updating the Calendar events page over the next couple of weeks for as much of 2009 as I can reasonably predict.

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