40m CW QSO - A modern KX3 chats with a vintage Johnson Ranger

In this video I get an answer to my first call of the afternoon from K4JJW running a vintage (ca 1954) Johnson Ranger. It's fun listening to the frequency changes from the old station.

[@stefanonegrini4675]

nice chirp! hehe..

[@spqa2004]

Keep posting videos like this, please! I am hoping to take the CW Academy class in September/October but i am trying to get a headstart. I have to listen to certain parts four or five times before i can copy and understand them.

[@abdula4256]

I LOVE that please do more vedios Best 73s

[@timothykearns2232]

Nice fist, OM........My first TX was a Johnson Viking Ranger (1969). The TX was older than I was! de NN6A.

[@leonardcrispino3210]

Nice , Junker key, but Rangers can sound much better on cw . . That one needs some TLC . . .his " RST" would have been around 597D back in the old days (D for drift) . . Terry at D labs here will show him how to restore that Ranger before it's damaged from old caps and resistors. . .like your Videos , listen to the practice all the time , they help me to copy words in my head . . Thanks !

[@jimorourke2771]

Good job De is WC3G

[@redveiner]

Nice set up! Did I see your shack on a TV show some where? Walking dead? Waco? maybe I dreamed it! Nice job and thanks. 73

[@HamRadioQRP]

Ha! Yes John, walking dead... that's when I can't sleep and get up in the middle of the night to work CW.

[@jean-bernardfrancois7135]

Foreign Legion caporal operator radiotelegraphiste during 5 years and ten years in the Armada portuguese war navy.

[@pascalcoole2725]

Nice handwriting, normal speed.... this way CW is fun, unlike all these computerjunkies

[@richardp5161]

Is that the KX3's sharp filter causing the "ringing" in the old Viking's signal or was he pulling slightly. Copying that would give me a headache... hi hi

[@HamRadioQRP]

Yes, the audio in the KX3 has some issues. www.hamradioqrp.com/2017/01/my-tentec-eagle-sounds-better-than-my.html