The 2025 Bruce Kelley Memorial CW QSO Party is now in the books. I was (for me) fairly successful with twelve QSOs, mostly in the upper midwest and northeast. I worked no stations to my west or south.
My transmitter was a Push-Pull Colpitts Oscillator (see https://w0vlz.blogspot.com/search/label/1934%20Colpitts ) running about 6 watts out. I stayed on 40 meters where it sounded the best. Even on 40, though, you can hear some flutter in my signal. This is from the wind slightly blowing my antenna around. This in turn changes the load on the colpitts oscillator transmitter changing the transmit frequency slightly.
Here is a link to a recording of my signal https://youtu.be/esTWUadIeRk
