Sparks's Journal - Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)

38,000 Miles per Watt endorsement

Earlier today I made contact with Bert, F6HKA, at a distance of 3,845 miles. We first made contact on 15 meters using 5 watts. The band conditions were so good that I hooked up the K1 and we made contact on 17 meters. That 17m contact was made with my side running only 100 mW which equates to 38,450 miles per watt. This is the kind of contact I was hoping to log running milliwatts. I always enjoy talking to Bert and am happy that he was able to hear my QRPp signal. As long as the daytime bands keep being quiet perhaps I'll be able to best my current record. I'll keep trying.

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1,000+ MPW award... finally!

Sat 05 December 2015
By Sparks

In Radio.

tags: QRP Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)

A few months ago I reported that I had achieved the 1,000 miles per watt SKCC award only later to find out that my radio was putting out 7 watts instead of the 0.1 watts I thought it was putting out. After sending the radio off for repair …
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SKCC 1,000 Miles per Watt Award

Fri 23 January 2015
By Sparks

In Radio.

tags: QRP Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)Awards

Update

It would appear that my K1 is stuck transmitting 6 to 7 watts no matter what the power output setting is. I can only assume that the contacts I made for this award were not made using 100 mW but rather 7W.

I have already responded to the award …
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SKCC: I now have my Centurion!
Tue 20 January 2015
By Sparks

In Radio.

tags: Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)Awards

I received the following message from Ron Bower, AC2C, after submitting my SKCC award log last night:
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Gather 'round and pay heed to the news of this
day!

Let there be celebration to recognize a fellow SKCC member who
has advanced to the Centurion level of …
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Five new DXCC entities in the log
Sat 12 April 2014
By Sparks

In Radio.

tags: DXCC Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)

Since moving to Calvert County and getting my Carolina Windom up (radiating East-West) I've added five new DXCC entities to my logs:
1. Kuwait - 9K2WA - 20m SSB
2. Wallis & Futuna Islands - FW5JJ - 17m CW
3. San Andres & Providencia - 5J0X - 10m SSB and 10m CW
4. Kazakhstan - UN1L - 15m RTTY
5. American Samoa - KH8/DL6JGN - 12m …
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SKCC WES

Mon 21 November 2011
By Sparks

In Radio.

tags: QRP Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)

I received my SKCC WES Participation Certificate today; very cool. I've been a member of the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) for almost a year and had never participated in their Weekend Sprint (WES) which takes place every month for twenty-four hours. I scored 115th out of the 199 entries …
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