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Hi John, Vy nice website. Share ur views on cw and qrp. Have bn ham doing almost all cw since 1979 during Navy days in San Diego. Still luv it. Keep up gud wrk! N5URL - N5URL Bob Hynd <rfhynd@gmail.com> - Arcadia, OK - May 5

Howdy doody all. Nice web site. 73 - Robert B 2E0FXT - Hertfordshire, England - May 5

Nice web site from a fellow QRPer and CW operator - Roy KB3LNP - Levittown, PA - Apr 29

John, you continue to be an inspiration. I became a radio amateur and 2009 and found your site shortly after joining NAQCC. I have enjoyed all aspects of amateur radio - including kit building but the part of the hobby I enjoy the most is ragchewing on CW. Since 2009 I reached DXCC-QRP and WAS-QRP. I am still 99% QRP and looking forward to Field Day 2013. We placed second in our class last year (2B). Keep up the good work being the inspiration. - Ariel Jacala NY4G - Tigerville, SC - Apr 29

I enjoyed your article in the latest FISTS Keynote newsletter. Enjoy your new KX3 and keep the CW going. Hope to work you someday. 73, Bill - Bill, VE2WMA - St. Irenee, QC - Apr 28

best site. I use wire antennas also and straight key - matt wd9dmm <mkefurlong@att.net> - Lagrange Park, IL - Apr 26

Appreciate your column in THE KEYNOTE. I operate 95% QRP using one of my three most favorite rigs: A restored Heathkit HW-8 or a Rockmite 20 or 40 (the other 5% I check into the SCARS SSB net on 7,251 kcs on a weekly basis). I got my ticket in 2001 and was afraid of not passing the CW portion of the test. However since restoring old Heathkits (I also have an HW-16 and an HW-101) I find CW the most fascinating mode there is. To be able to make contacts across the country or world on 1/2 to 2 watts is truly amazing. I have 2 antennas: a Force 12 Flag Pole vertical and a home-brew 40 meter folded dipole in an inverted vee configuration. The folded dipole is based on a plan in the 1960 ARRL Handbook. A folded dipole as a center connection point impedance of 300 ohms; so I use 300 ohm TV twin lead. It works perfectly and my SWR on the CW portion of 40 meters is 1.2:1. Thanks again for your column and this website. Best 73, Ken - KG4LLQ - Ken Powell KG4LLQ <kenanddiane@me.com> - Asheboro, NC - Apr 26

Jody Huneycutt K4EPH <jodyhuneycutt@gmail.com> - Ellijat, GA - Apr 23

nice hope to cu on the band - jaliya jayampathi 4S7JL - Hokandara, Sri Lanka - Apr 22

Mar 17, 2013, CW contact between KK4LPG and WY4J, 0.2 Watts, 862 Miles, equivalent to 4310 miles per watt. Confirmed, QRZ.com. - Glen Ellis - Memphis, TN - Apr 18

Thank you for the great links! - KA6JLT Rob Walker <ka6jlt@nvbell.net> - Reno, NV - Apr 18

What a great site John. You are a true inspiration with the minimalist approach. True QRPer. While there are "qrpers" who have three Icom Pro III transceivers and multiple stacked monobanders masquerading as qrp stations, winning qrp contests,you are the real thing John. No quarterly magazines or publications. Just this great inspirational informative site of K3WWP. Congratulations John, A True QRPer in every sense of the hobby. - n4dsp/John - Liberty, NC - Apr 9

Jim - KD0GLN - Sioux City, IA - Apr 9

Your page seems to have extensive QRP info. I am new to QRP so will look it over carefully. - Randy Dorociak KC9W - Fayetteville, TN - Apr 5

Great website. Keep up the streak! Very encouraging to us newbie CW operators. - Mitch KF5OEF - Longview, TX - Mar 31

I gave been a Ham since 1986 and thought QRP was boring. I acquired an FT-817ND and started CW/QRP and it is the greatest. Haven't too many contacts yet, but am working on it. Just joined NAQCC just a couple of weeks ago. This is great fun. Haven't been on the "big" rig for weeks. Use an 43 ft telescoping vertical antenna when the wind isn't blowing 60+ mph. Usually have it at one of it's lower postions and have still made contacts. It is challenging, but that's what it's all about. NO AMPS for me. - Steve Spier,N7JUO <steve.spier@gmail.com> - Cheyenne, WY - Mar 25

*(: Ham_QRZ_bio_130325.txt Interests : Electrical Science, Ham radio QRP, Website: www.GeoCities.WS/glene77is ARRL American Radio Relay League #2000792136 NAQCC North American QRP CW Club #6597 SKCC Straight Key Century Club #10462 1959:K4KKQgeneral QTH: Norfolk, VA Rig : Heath AT-1 (crystal) and Arc-5 modified. Rcvr : Navy Surplus BC??? for 80M, later a Hammurland HQ-140X. Band : 80M, CWonly. Key: Vibroplex (1946) speed cert 35wpm Pwr: 205 W Ant: 59' Vertical on 80M only. 2013: KK4LPGgeneral QTH: Memphis, TN Rig : Kenwood Transceiver TS-830. Rcvr is very good, Trxhas bad output tubes. Band : 20M, CW only. Key: Vibroplex (1946) , speed 15wpm. Pwr: 1 Watt. out of MFJ tuner. Ant #1 : old telephone cable strung through attic, 50'. 860 mile contact.Ant #2 : 17' Vertical. 1400 mile contact. - Glen Ellis KK4LPG - Memphis, TN - Mar 25

I started on CW as novice. Glad it was a required in those days.the new hams today are missing out on a fantastic part of the ham experience. I think W5YI in search of personal gain has done damage to the hobby. But what it is, it is....we can only go forward. Keep CW as the grand art that it is. We will need it when the aliens land! - James Burton, KZ8J - Branchland, WV - Mar 19

You have an awsome accomplish started and I imagine no end in site. Congrats! 73 Ron - Ron Perkins KC2DQC - Tonawanda, NY - Mar 18

72 from Minnesota - Brian NF0G - Saint Louis Park, MN - Mar 18

F1IWH - Villenave d'Ornon, France - Mar 15

Ron Metcalf W7HGW <bulletboy54@yahoo.com> - Saint Robert, MO - Mar 7

Thank for the 2X QRP CW QSO. 3W here. Love CW and QRP. Visit the QRP Brothers Blog we just started a few months ago. - Michael Morris KF5RAU formerly KA5VZE <mailbox@samstreasures.com> - Tulsa, OK - Mar 1

QRP 333 Countries Most with 1 watt since 1974 W8ILC - Ron Moorefield W8ILC <w8ilc@aol.com> - Kettering, OH - Mar 1

Jon Wells K6DAT <wellsjon@hotmail.com> - Austin, TX - Feb 26

20 miles north of Victoria BC. Rig is Yaesu FT-817nd to a Windom Ant. - Arnold (Arn) Parlee - North Saanich, BC - Feb 24

My hat's off to you for what you've done with QRP and CW. When I took up ham radio in 2011 I was already pushing 70, and although I can manage 10 wpm on receive, my CW sending suffers from the "stutters." Know of any cure for that? - Jerry Allen - Roopville, GA - Feb 20

I like your articles in FIST,that's where I found your site. Very nice. - Frank Kennedy KB9KGI <menominee02@yahoo.com> - Plymouth, IN - Feb 19

Hi John, Great totals from ARRL International DX CW Contest! Got in on it too. Made about 120 contacts. I hope at least 100 of them are good so that I can earn a pin. Thanks for the contact in the most recent NAQCC sprint. Hope to C U in the next one. 72/73, Lou N8LA - Lou Axeman N8LA <n8la@ymail.com> - St. Louis, MO - Feb 19

Stan Slonski W2HUX <w2hux@arrl.net> - Kenilworth, NJ - Feb 19

Enjoying the NAQCC sprints and appreciate all you do to promote this aspect of the hobby. 72 Marc, W4MPS - Marc, W4MPS - Clayton, NC - Feb 15

kc2ykn <Samar241b@hotmail.com> - New York, NY - Feb 12

Thanks John for the QRP QSO on 40 m. You can log me in your 5W QSO/day with wire antennas log. CW has never been easy for me even when I was a novice in 1957. I was off the air for 40 years but got back into it with the boy scouts in 1998 where I was a Cubmaster. When I won my KX3 at the NEARFEST I decided to turn off the SSB buttons and try to concentrate on CW, it is still very difficult for the way my brain is wired, but I am determined to get better.I did copy 20WPM for my xtra which was a lot faster than when my mother taught me my first CW as she drove me to school by whistling back and forth. 73 and tnx for the QSO and your work to support QRP/CW - Willy Maclean W1LY - Jamestown, RI - Feb 9

I would like to see a per band sprint. This would be good for those of us who are antenna limited. - Stu KO8U - Ishpeming, MI - Feb 9

I made my first amateur QSO at age 17, in 1958. I had already passed the military equivalent of the full licence examination -- but stupidly did nothing about actually getting on the air for another 20 years, mainly because of the CW qualification also needed at the time. DON'T, anyone reading this, ever make the mistake I did; for in those 20 years I visited Juan de Nova; Europa; and a host of islands in the Indian Ocean (I was living in Madagascar for ten of those twnety years). Now I've got my ticket, I'm stuck in Europe, with only regrets of what might have been. And the CW turned out to be a doddle, anyway. 73 de G5FM (Callsign in use in my family for 90 years now -- originally issued to my Grandad -- a 33wpm operator -- twenty years before I was born.) - Martin G5FM <g5fm@martinwheeler.net> - Glastonbury, England - Feb 4

7 months a year we operate portable from rv. 5 watts to 100 depending on loacation and power. back pack with 817d yo-yo and a small solar panel - Terry KJ4EZX <kj4ezx@gmail.com> - Ennice, NC - Feb 4

John, I worked these stns today QRP 5 watts: IK2SND, TF3JB, F9IE, CR2V. At QRO 100 watts: HA9RT, 7P8US, ZF2LC 17 meters was "...than a smoking gun." 7P8 is a new country for me. FB QSO on 26 January (UTC). 73, 72, --Ken - Ken WA8REI - Freeland, MI - Jan 31

Congratulations, I agree with you I am learning CW at 15WPM by Koch method. 20 minutes per day. I have reached 30 signs since 4 months. I have bought the czech key - J.C. Micheau F6HLQ - Saint Orens near Toulouse, France - Jan 31

Hello John i enjoy very much visting your web site. it has been a number of years since i have been on the air waves,my speed is so slow.Keep up your excellent web site, 73 Herb. - Herbert Dodge KA9AYX - Chicago, IL - Jan 31

I am not really good at morse code{aka cw], but I love it. Yes, for 63 years. - Steve Wetzel W6HPK - Lacey, WA - Jan 24

hi john. i like your site. iam getting in to naqcc challenge in feburary. the groundhog challenge. worked you before old call kb8fzy now k8fzy and naqcc #6036. new at qrp. hny john and 73 k8fzy steve - Steve K8FZY - Dennison, OH - Jan 24

New member. - Chris, KA3EVT - Youngsville, PA - Jan 20

Thank you so much for keeping your site up and running. It's been a huge help to me as I'm still getting started. 73 - Sam M. KK4FXQ - Yucca Valley, CA - Jan 17

I'm very interested in purchasing QRP equipment. - Robert Powell KF4ILV - McDavid, FL - Jan 9

First rig was home brew 5 watts using a 7N7 crystal oscillator. Receiver was Hallicrafters S-40 with National Select-O-Ject. This was in 1946. - Bob Renfro K4OF <k4of@hotmail.com> - Mt. Pleasant, NC - Jan 9

Great page!! I especially enjoyed the home brew station pix AND the Novice QSL wall. I had a QSL wall just like it when I was WN8HVR back in 1964! And I wish I had those QSL cards now! Moving around the countryside has lost a lot of stuff I now wish I could see! Great job keeping the pictures and posting them. CW FOREVER! - Mike Goltz -- N8MRS (ex N8CRF) - Medina, OH - Jan 9

Great site, congratulations. Particularly the DSW rig as I've just acquired a DSW-30! Kind regards Norm. VK5GI - Norm. vk5gi <marjannorm@gmail.com> - Willunga, Australia - Jan 2

Once again for the 16th year in a row, it's time to archive the previous year's guestbook entries, and start with a clean slate for the new year of 2013. Thanks to all for the fine comments over the years, and I look forward to see what you have to offer this year here in the guestbook - John K3WWP - Kittanning, PA - Jan 1

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