SKCC - Straight Key Century Club
(Originally published in 2014)
My return to Amateur Radio this past Spring has been enriched in a most wonderful and unexpected way. And it all started that very first evening when I fired up my long dormant Icom 735 on a delightfully active 40 meter band up around 7050 kHz, and then a guy asks me for my SKCC number.
“I see you’re already a member”, the station continued, but I honestly had no clue what this SKCC number was, or how I could possibly have one, as I’d been away from Amateur Radio for nearly two decades. Undaunted, the station proceeded to ‘remind’ me of my SKCC number. “You are SKCC 11062”, he advised, and so I thanked him for this number, whatever it was, and we proceeded to have a pleasant CW conversation.
SKCC - Straight Key Century Club