This weekend is the European #hamradio #fieldday and before heading out tomorrow, I’m preparing all my gear.

That also means cleaning and adjusting my #cw #morse keyers, amongst them, this beauty which has served me well for likely 28 years and continues to do so ❤️🥹

I’m measuring the paddle pressure with a #dynamometer, a surprisingly expensive little instrument, but well worth the purchase: the balance between dashes and dots becomes absolutely perfect 🤩

I actually prefer somewhere between 20 and 30 gram, but these old #HI-MOUND are difficult to get below 35. The springs are getting old I guess ☺️

Listen for me tomorrow and Sunday, I’ll be operating as OZ2EDR/P 🙂🙂

#radio #passion #cwops #hamradio #fieldday #portableops #superkeyer #superkeyerii

This is the results from 10 watts out of x6100 with the hex beam pointed east. Looks like I was rx'ed on 6 continents, I made contact with EU, AS, NA and SA looks like a pretty successful test. SWR was great on all the bands with no tuner #HexBeam #FT8 #PortableOps

@ham_bitious @W8HF #WinterFieldDay Sounds chilly; LOL! #POTA #SOTA #PortableOps #HamRadio