Tag: Elecraft
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Win an Elecraft KX3! – HCRA Raffle
HCRA’s raffle this year is going to be for a Elecraft KX3! (Raffle for radio only! Antenna, angle adapter, microphone and keyer not included) For a mere $10 donation to the HCRA, you get a chance to win an assembled KX3 by Elecraft valued at around $1000. This is an very popular and excellent HF…
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From the Shack – October 2012
What’s that ‘funny noise’ on 14.085 MHz? If you’re tuning around the bands and come across some signals that sound like “beedley, beedley, beedley” you may have stumbled across a radio teletype transmission. Not exactly sure what that “beedley” sound is? Here’s what it sounds like – rtty (hint, click rtty) Usually abbreviated RTTY, it…
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From the Shack – September 2012
“Welcome back my friends…..” Welcome to the NEW HCRA – new meeting hall, new website, new raffle and more! I hope your summer has been interesting and exciting. Now, as the leaves begin to turn and there’s a bite of crisp autumn in the air, it is time to re-energize your activity in amateur radio!…
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New KX3 Raffle – starts at the September 7th meeting!
We were one of the first clubs in the world to give away an Elecraft KX3 – and we’re doing it again! Tickets will be available starting September 7th during our kick-off meeting at the Holyoke Medical Center. A $10 donation puts you in the running. Only 250 tickets will be available and the…
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KX3 from PEI
Yesterday I has the chance to set up the KX3 while vacationing on Prince Edward Island. Unfortunately the weather was not great but I managed to get an end fed wirestrung between two small pines and down to the deck. I heard a few summits but they couldn’t hear the little KX3 on the EFW.…
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Dueling KX3’s on Dry Hill
Here’s Frandy/N1FJ making a CW contact with a KX3 on Dry Hill – W1/CR-003 on August 15th, 2012. Yep, dueling KX3’s? No, not really. We brought them both along but only used one at a time. Actually Frandy is using mine at the moment, his is the one further to the left on our ‘rock…