Just heard this morning from another new TBKII owner and he said he ran the WPX-CW contest this past weekend with the TBKII and although he has many, many keys and is a collector and avid DX’r, he’s says after using it all weekend “I think it’s now my favorite paddle!”.

Well we had a lot of storms here Saturday night and although I was itching to get on the air, I decided against it as the lightning strikes loomed closer and closer. Come Sunday the bands were very crowded. Since I run all contests QRP, it was a bit of a challenge for stations to separate me out of the bigger guns, but I managed to get 100 contacts and 86 DX entities which I was happy with. 20m and 15m were great and 40 in the am not bad as well. To all of you who roll your eyes when someone mentions QRP, you should try it sometime. It’s a lot of fun.

Thanks to my best buddy Frank, 2E0YAR in Merseyside UK for promoting my keys on the other side of the pond. He wrote a very flattering article about the TBKII and the FISTS cover features a nice pic of the key. You’re the best Frank!! 73 Steve.