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If “Charles Finkelman” Rings a Bell, You Might Be Interested In This

If you took your General Class exam in the early Sixties at the FCC Field Office at 741 Federal Bldg, 641 Washington, Street, Greenwich Village — then you might enjoy these pictures of the legendary Charlie Finkelman.  Click here to … Continue reading

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Titanic 100 Year Anniversary GR100MGY

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Pitcairn Island VP6T

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QSY Society at the Morse Estate (short video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1T6GWUFsVE

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Surprise in the Mailbox Today!

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QRP CW WAC on 5 Watts and a 44′ Attic Doublet

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Some Recent QRP DX

Christmas Island, T32C, was snagged on a 31′ end fed halfwave vertical and the K2 (because it has an internal tuner which was needed to match this antenna).  Marquesas Island was with a 44′ all band doublet in the attic. … Continue reading

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TWO GOOD TO BE TRUE?

…so late last night after patiently working through the humongous pileup on 20M for HK0NA, I finally manage to work the DXpedition.  But the band was in lousy shape, the flutter was signaling an imminent reversal of fortune and, as … Continue reading

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New Accomplishment

Tony Castellano, W1ZMB recently worked Hawaii  using his Elecraft K2 running 100 Milli Watts (0.1 Watts) CW to his OCF Dipole. This equates to 50,000 miles per Watt. To equal this, if one was running one Killo Watt, he would have … Continue reading

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Kyle Yancy, 44, SK — KC2VDG

Kyle, a member of the QSY Society, was very active in the 2009 QSY Field Day, setting up an maintaining the networked logging system. He will be missed. Kyle Yancy, 44, a resident of Hopewell Junctionsince 2005 and formerly of … Continue reading

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