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Episode 246 - Jack Worth - WA0QZK

Jack Worth, WA0QZK, is a retired pastor with over 50 years of amateur radio operating experience who likes to QSO on CW from the Warsaw Wireless Telegraph Office.  Jack collects and restores antique Morse code telegraph keys and bugs and uses them to work the World and ragchew on QRP with his modified G5RV antenna. WA0QZK is my QSO Today.

Show Notes

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QRP Labs QCX Transceiver Kit

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Hometown: Warsaw, Indiana

First License: Age 26, 1967, WN0QZK

Jack’s callsigns: WN0QZK, WB9LAJ, WB5DIG, WA0QZK

First Rig:

• Ameco AC1 - can now be purchased from “The New Ameco”
• Hallicrafters S41G “Skyrider Jr” receiver
• Allied Knightkit T-60 Transmitter

Current Rigs:

• MFJ 9040 single band 40 meter QRP transceiver
• Elecraft KX1
• Icom 706 MKG2 transceiver

Favorite operating mode: CW

Stromberg Carlson Shortwave Radio

Crystal radio set

Straight Key Century Club, 1776C SKCC Number

Helping Hands Net - Triple H Net

Antennas - G5RV

6 meter vertical antenna

Telegraph keys discussed:

• German Junker telegraph key
• 1909 Mecograph telegraph key
• 1918 Model X vibroplex key has one set of points
• Lionel Telegraph Key Model 36
• Brown Brothers telegraph key
• Junker telegraph key with leg clip
• Kent telegraph key from Titanic
• Vibroplex telegraph 1904 reproduction

Test equipment:
Tube tester
Antenna analyzer

Jay Leno - Morse Code Versus Texting Test

QRP

Hoosier Lakes Amateur Radio Club

CW traffic net

Hurricane Katrina

Israel Amateur Radio Club

“HPM” - Hiram Percy Maxim

Amateur Radio Hotspots

Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, Chicago

KDKA Pennsylvania

1927 Television Kinescope tube

Advice to new or returning hams: Enjoy yourself

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