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CQ QRS RagChew

Wow, wasn’t last Tuesday’s CQQRS Practice QSO net great? I was amazed when I checked the VK6QS KiwiSDR receiver part way through the evening – the waterfall had turned into a downpour – with signals romping in from the East into Brookton WA.

And what’s more there were a number of brave souls who ventured down to 80m late in the evening – two for the first time as welll Thank you all for making this such great fun – and hopefully useful for us all.

And thanks to everyone who took time to submit a report after our Tuesday net; I know that it takes a lot of time and discipline to write the report after each Tuesday’s net.

In-turn, I believe that it’s those reports and the other articles that our members make the effort to write that keeps our team energised and coming back for more every week. Thank you one and all.

Similarly, I’d like to thank those who have sent me comments about our new website; very much appreciated one and all. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s here: bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite – work in progress still.

I’m keen to make this both a useful motivator for those who are interested in giving CW a try, are returning to the art, or just would like to have a bit of fun on CW every week, without the pressures of DX or contests.

I’d also like the Resources and Links section to be a useful go-to for our team.

First to Brave the Weather

Well things must be starting to warm up a little in the UK. Simon MOKBJ will be venturing out into the weather next Tuesday at 0800-0900z and will be calling CQ DE MOKBJ/P on ~14.052MHz from the outskirts of wonderful Wolverhampton.

Hopefully the start of more DXperiments for us! See Other News below for more.

Last Tuesday’s Group

So back to this week’s net – here’s this week’s list of the 43 stations heard by the 33 of our stations known to be on air on Tuesday:

New Team Members

Welcome this week to another of our Kiwi friends – Clive ZL1CJB. Clive has recently returned to the gentle art of CW after a long absence in the wilderness. Welcome Clive and I look forward to more of our QRS chats again often. See more from Clive below.

Masthead Image

Now that is odd Jordan! So thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this interesting yortable activity shot. See On My Workbench below for more.

Reports

As always after next Tuesday’s Group, please send me a list of who you worked an / or who you heard using our you-beaut web form here:

Please help attract new and old team members to have a go by submitting your report each week. Submissions close 1300 (Eastern Australian time) on Thursday.

And thank again to our software wizard Nigel G4RWI who built the form and has written the python application which allows me to process the form’s data in minutes rather than many hours.

Website

If you’d like to find out a bit about our net, or would like to pass information to others about our Tuesday get-togethers, here’s the link to our website.

Bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite Cheers, mb Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI Beautiful South Bowning NSW mark.bosma@icloud.com non impsditi ratione cogitationis

Reports & Comments

Once again, a huge thank-you to our part-time Aussie Nigel G4RWI for building both the webform that we all use to submit our reports, and the outstanding software too!

That I use to convert the collected reports into the Excel spreadsheet above and individual reports that you’ll see below.

Manual production of the spreadsheet and team reports used to take me a whole day, but now takes less than a couple of hour from go-to-whoa – thanks mate – eccles cake still on its way.

So the spreadsheets above show the known stations on last Tuesday’s Group; the comments distilled from the team members’ reports follow:

Comments:

[40m] + Well started off using my vintage FT- 102. Recently re-caped for second time in many years. Found it was having AGC blocking from strong adjacent CW stations. Some letter elements were attenuated. + Swapped to my tentec omni.

The ter tec has a 600 KC primary roofing filter. No further reception issues.

• Signals on 40m particularly strong this session..

[80m] * Some QSB, but good conditions. [That’s a nice-looking transceiver Paul – I don’t think I’ve seen that one before – looks a bit Kenwood 520/820-like eh? Did you happen to try backing off the RF gain to see if the blocking could be moderated?]

[40m] + It is great hearing my brother on the air. Looks like there is quite a long line waiting to work him as DX. Condx was pretty amazing tonight. This was quite exciting. I did not get my turn as he has to drive his daughter somewhere.

[What fun eh Ketut? Sign of good things ahead perhaps? Pity your keyer was in bits when Nyoman first came up!]

[40m] * Lots of activity and opportunities for QSOs. QSOs appeared shorter this week which gave me more opportunity to call once stations had signed off..

[80m] + My rig was working this week on 80m however my timing must have been bad as I didn’t manage to catch many on this band. By midnight all had gone to bed, I think. I don’t blame them, hihi..

[We must have passed each-other in the night on 80m David; next time!

[80m] * Working Mark VK2KI with 1 watt ona crystal locked transmitter on 80m was fun.. «| was also fortunate enough to work France on a hand held QRP rig on the way home from work (see below). Good conditions and great fun. Catch you all on the air soon.

[Amazing – couple of transistors and an old crystal – and just so stable!]

[40m] * Variable conditions making life interesting, short QSOs at first but as the band improved longer and more relaxed QSOs . * Thanks to all on the net last night..

[80m] * Signals not that strong from Sava VK4PN but I was hearing him fine but

He was affected by QRN so no contact. Looking forward to better conditions from VK4, thanks Sava..

[40m] I tried calling VK3KLE with the QRP QCX-mini without success. + Undeterred by the limits of QRP, I have now started building the QMX+ kit from QRP Labs which promises peanut power on all bands from 160 to 6.

It is quite a quantum leap in design from the QCX series. We will see how it goes! [Looking forward to some photos of the build Greg.]

[40m] * Enjoyable evening having good QSOs. Band started very noisy, then improved with a bit of deep QSB..

[40m] + We had to go out with our youngest harmonic and returned home a bit late. I made a few CQs but only the OM Greg / VK5KFG came to rescued me. Tks OM Greg. I hope next week it will be BETTER..

[80m] + My first time on this band with CQ QRS and not much of luck.. [Great that you’ve given 80m a try Manny – sorry I missed you.

Hopefully the phasing noise canceller is helping; they can be tricky to adjust on 80m, especially when there’s static crashes about! 80m can work really well to NZ and across Australia (static crashes aside) when the D-layer has faded.

Perhaps next time you give 80m a try during the net, send me an SMS with the frequency and if I see it in time, Ill post it on our CQQRS WhatsApp Alerts group so the others can have a listen.]

[40m] * an better outcome, for this week.. * still rather quiet locally, & even during the week..

[80m] + it was nice to get a QSO with Sava VK4PN, as I don’t work QLD that much on 80m. [It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen!]

From your editor Mark VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW

[40m] * The band started out very quiet in the east and WA, but I had a chat to Paul VK3KLE at Stawell and Clive ZL1CJB in Auckland before taking a break for dinner..

* When I came back I had a nice 40m chat to Georg VK2DLF at St Marys, then connected with David VK6KD/5 at Murray Town North of Adelaide. Next I caught up with Richard VK6HRC from Padbury; this time signals weren’t particularly strong, but we both reported Q5.

Richard was then called by Max VK6FN, and I was surprised to hear that Max’s signal was about the same as Richard’s..

• On our CQQRS WhatsApp group I saw that Nyoman YB1NWP (Ketut VK3BWN‘s brother) was listening in, and I was pleased to hook up with him for the first time.

Interestingly, at the end of the QSO, Nyoman’s signal had a distinct rapid flutter, reminiscent of auroral flutter. Interesting to consider how that could happen over the path from Southern NWS to just South of the Equator.

May be some sort of equatorial phenomenon associated with the high solar activity perhaps?

Anyway, Nyoman then went on to work Richard VK6HRC; although I could hear him on the VK6QS KiwiSDR, I wasn’t quick enough to check whether the flutter was present over that path too..

«| had intended to slide down to 80m a bit earlier on Tuesday to see if we couldn’t stir up some more activity there – unfortunately, my good plans were again thwarted by the good conditions and downpour of stations on 40m… hard to drag myself away!.

[80m] +1 got to 80m at about 1145Z, and following his alert on the CQQRS WhatsApp group hooked up with Jordan VK3ACU using his 1 Watt home brewed wonder crystal locked transmitter, outside our designated CQQRS segment on 3579KHZ.

Another reason to use our WhatsApp Alerts group. For such a simple transmitter, it sure sounded nice!.

• After Jordan, I returned to 3555KHZ and Richard VK6HRC and I managed 1 exchange reports, albeit that Richard was Q2 with me. Once again, I was able to improve his signal a bit by offsetting the IF shift and Clarifier

On my old Trio TS-120S (my receiver is out of alignment, made obvious recently when I installed a CW filter). After Richard, I chatted with Peter VK6IS who was one S-point stronger, and Q6..

* By midnight plus a quarter, it was time to avoid stepping on our sleeping puss-cat, and head to bed. Thank you all – terrific night..

Also from your editor Mark VK6QI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW, but listening via the VK6QS KiwiSDR near Brookton

[40m] + The band started opening to the East very early on Tuesday; at around 0800Z the signal from Paul VK3KLE was starting to become visible. When I worked Clive ZL1CJB in Auckland, his signals and mine were also starting to come through.

I also heard Wayne VK6NW at Bridgetown chatting to Daniel VK6WE at Cottesloe.. + After dinner I was pleased to see the waterfall display of the VK6QS KiwiSDR near Brookton was full of signals from locals and afar. I also

Noticed Lin VK6NT listening-in; Lin was one of the founding participants of the net (back when it was only on 80m).. + As the night continued, I was pleased to hear Nyoman YB1NWP East of Jakarta working Richard VK6HRC.

The band was really percolating on Tuesday…

80m] + When I moved down to 80m at around 1145Z, I was pleased to hear five stations over the following hour or so, including Jordan VKSACU north of Geelong on 1 Watt, Sava VK4PN West of Brisbane and my own signal from North of Canberra.

I was a bit surprised to hear Sava working Richard – the doppler wind radar from Brisbane showed areas of 90+km/h winds South of Brisbane – Tropical Cyclone Alfred would have caused most people to hunker down I imagine; trust all’s well with our team up there..

[40m] « There were no signals when I tuned in but I managed three contacts ducking in between other tasks and issuing a few CQ calls. Overall it seemed very quiet..

From Peter Dann VK3WOW at Blackburn, Melbourne

[40m] + A couple of my QSOs on the night turned into 20 wpm affairs, which I found made “head copying” easier, but challenged my sending capabilities. Still, excellent practice opportunity.

It’s clear there are some speed wolves (OK, I probably exaggerate) lurking in sheepish QRS clothing on Tuesday nights — which I think is very public-spirited of them, and a tribute to all who have helped established the friendly, co-operate ethos of this group..

[80m] * Mait VKSAO ventured down onto 80m when I said I was going to give it a try (we’d been chatting on 40). Mait thinks it MAY have been his first ever 80m CW QSO.

He has good reason to be cautious, however: it seems on 80m his transmissions make his touch-sensitive bedside lights flash on and off. (mine used to make my kitchen exhaust fan activate, but that’s all sorted now).

80m looked quiet on the waterfall, and at one point I pondered in CW if anyone might be listening to us. Then got a nice email from Peter Munro VK3BGM to say he was, indeed, listening on an Icom 7300 he had just received that day..

(mine used to make my kitchen exhaust fan activate, but that’s all sorted now). 80m looked quiet on the waterfall, and at one point I pondered in CW if anyone might be listening to us.

Then got a nice email from Peter Munro VK3BGM to say he was, indeed, listening on an Icom 7300 he had just received that day..

[Wow – that’s two firsts on 80m this week! I’ve heard about the bed-side lamps flashing before, but the exhaust fan is a new one!]

Post Morsum

From Richard VA6GHRG Six on the AllStar / Echolink & South West repeater network on Wednesday morning’s post morsum call-back. VKeQl Mark VK6KD/5. David VK6NW Wayne VK6FN Max VK6KRC Bob VK6HRC VK6MRB Mulligan SWL and others.

Mark reported having fun and enjoying the early East-West opening on Tuesday, and also monitored the KiwiSDR nodes to announce spots on the group WhatsApp. Mark ambushed an unsuspecting ZL and put pressure on him to join the crew!

He also commented on unusual flutter on the signal fat the end of his 40m QSO with Nyoman YBINWP, David worked five on 40m from Murray Town SA, he also heard YBINWP on the net at one stage.

Unfortunately the link failed as we were finishing up so no final comments from him. Wayne was back after a lengthy absence to work 40m, until it was time to head off to his regular duties with the SES crew.

Wayne also let us know that he had been kept busy helping with the logistics for the South West bushfires and other incidents. On the bright side, he said he was about to depart for Perth to collect a radio.

Max was back with a vengeance on 40m and worked quite a few stations with YB1NWP and a VK7 being notable as the long-haul contacts. Max was still being hampered with power outages and a temperamental internet but had his rig and CW working nicely.

Bob let us know that he had been tuning around on HF and hearing some interesting DX, one call with an OA prefix an interesting one. This reinforces what Jordan VK3ACU was saying, get on and tune around have a go even if conditions are not great.

| worked eight on 40m and one on 80m. With the variable conditions, some contacts were fairly short to start with but as the band improved, I enjoyed longer QSOs.

At one stage I gave Nyoman YB1NWP a call but he was not hearing well enough for a contact; however, conditions picked up later and we had a great QSO.

Just going to sneak a report about the Fists Down Under Friday QSO party in here! We had better turn out locally last week which is great.

Although still hampered by no East-West propagation at the specified time, I was lucky and spotted a familiar callsign on the RBN page, ZL3TK! So I gave OM Stan a call and he came right back and we enjoyed the conditions while they lasted. Great Fun!

So thanks to all on last Friday arvo, Tuesday afternoon and evening and Wednesday morning. Stay safe 73 Richard VKeHRC [Thanks again Richard – great report!

Really pleased you were also able to report on the FDU QSO Party; I’m keen to promote other CW groups’ activities as much as possible.]

This Week’s Topic of Interest

Last week I discussed why you might want to have (or update) your own QRZ.com webpage. Brace yourself! – this may be the longest and most-difficult part of getting onto QRZ.com! But, never fear, just take it one step at a time.

Just like learning Morse Code – “Keep going and you will get it”. This bit of the process comes in two parts. First you register to create an account…. then you have your callsign verified.

Only when this has been done, will you be allowed to create your page. This might all seem like a hassle but it’s a sensible security precaution so that people have some trust in what they read on the webite. Account Creation

Account Creator

Start by going to the QRZ.com home page. On the right hand side you will see a tab called “Login”.

Click on that and you will get this page.

There are then a few pages where you enter your callsign (which will also be your “username”), enter your email address, and do a simple addition sum to prove thai you’re human. They will then send you an email with a link.

Click on this link. It takes you to yet another web page, where you enter the password that you want to use.

Callsign Verification

Phew, Part One is complete; you are now registered! Now you have to prove that you’re the holder of an amateur radio license. I did say that this wasn’t going to be a 5 minute job, didn’t |!

“ Go back to the QRZ.com home page and click on that “Login” tab again. “Login with your callsign (which is also your “username”) and password. You will then be back on the home page. * Click on the “Forums” tab and choose “Forums home”.

“ Go down the threads all the way to the bottom until you find the section “QRZ Community, database helpers, and info” [add_callsign_5.jpg]

• Click on “Add My Call Sign to QRZ…” * The top post is “!!How to add your callsign to the QRZ database!!”. Click on it. * Follow the instructions, which send you to another web page.

You will need to supply: * Your QRZ username (that is, your callsign) “Your first name and surname, your town or city, and your nation (it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a “DXCC entity” – I don’t.

My entry just says “England”) “A PDF or JPG image of your amateur radio license showing your name and callsign. Don’t have an image of your license?

Either – scan it using a scanner, take a photo of it using your phone and send it to your computer (or a friend’s via email) for conversion to PDF or JPG format, or take it to your local library along with a thumb drive (a few dollars at your local post office), and ask the nice people there to scan it to PDF of JPG.

Once submitted, after a “Database Helper” has confirmed that your callsign is real, you’ll receive an email from them. The process may take as little as a few hours but, in my case, it was a few days, maybe a week. But….

Congratulations – you now have access to your QRZ.page. The next article deals with making sure your identity is safe, so it’s well worth following along with that rather than just jumping into Page Creation. See you next week then.

Ross MONNK [Thanks Ross – this is a terrific article which no-doubt took you a fair bit of time to remember all the steps and make images of the screens. Thank you and much appreciated mate.

For readers, if you follow Ross’ steps, please let him know; email me at cgarsnet@gmail.com and /’ll pass your comments on to Ross.]

If you have an article or two that you think might be of interest to our readers, please let me know so we can share more thoughts and ideas; email to cqqrsnet@gmail.com

On My Workbench

Magnetic Loop

Niayicuy LUUpP from Jordan VK3ACU I put together Peter VK3YE‘s Summer Loop 2 mag loop antenna and it’s been a fun experiment. It’s actually doing a great job for QRP DX. I’m using an old radio tuning cap, so I’m sticking to 5 watts or less to avoid arcing.

Just a reminder, though, mag loops can generate high voltages and fields, so keep your head away from it! The goat came to check out all the beeping noises

Its also worth keeping an ear out on 14.100 , 18.110, 21.150, 24.930 and 28.200 for the NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Project https://www.ncdxf.org/ beacon/

[Thanks Jordan. Fascinating how well they work as a low noise pickup antenna, either passive like yours or with an active pre-amp (eg https://www.

Minikits.com.au/EME234- HF-Active-Loop?search=loop) And yes the beacon network is very useful – and like the VK2WI 80m Morse beacon, used to be the go-to for checking propagation conditions; one of the beacons is run in Perth on a TS- 50 by the Hills Amateur Radio Group.]

The 3D Printed Paddle in RagChew 9/2025

The 3D Printed Paddle in RagChew 9/2025 from Gary VK6GS I made the key for Richard VK6HRC as published in last week’s RagChew. Richard said you may be interested in the details for the newsletter.

| published it here https://www.thingiverse.com/thin g:6952007 so as if anyone was interested in making it, all the data (I hope) is there. Cheers Gary VK6GS

QRZ?

QRZ? Who’s on the other end? From your editor Mark VK2KI / VK6QI Key to the success of our net is helping to make it a get-together that people enjoy returning to each week.

But when you’re on the key, it’s really hard to find out a bit more about the person you’re chatting to. So I’m really keen to share the backgrounds of some of our team members – it’s really nice to know who’s on the other end of the QSO.

How did they come to amateur radio and when, and what on earth was the motivator that got them interested in CW? How’s the journey been so far, and what’s planned? Perhaps, what they get out of the net and the newsletter, and how it can be made better?

So, would you be willing to share some thoughts about yourself? Doesn’t matter if you think you’ve always been a crap writer… I’m very happy to quietly help you shape some thoughts – I reckon you’ll be pleased with the results.

So please let me know: cqgrsnet@gmail.com Alternatively, lan VK1HF is keen to record and produce some short audio segments for RagChew about some of our team members.

If you’d like to have a chat with lan rather than writing something, send me an email and I’ll pass your details to him. So… QRZ?

QRZ? Who’s on the other end?

Other News

Morserino News

More Good News

TOM) ONTION MURBY Copy of an email from Simon to Mike DL3YZ and Ross MONNK – foreshadowing a possible return of our intrepid DXperiment team.

Hi Mike, Ross and Mark, I hope you guys are well and that life and the bands have been kind to you since we last communicated. I’ve been avidly reading the CQ QRS updates and following the action on the WhatsApp group each week. The weather has improved here.

We still get frosts and temperatures below zero but there have been some very fine days. It means my fingers are itching to send some dits and dahs on the long path again.

This morning I found a location with a lovely SO noise floor which is only a ten-minute drive from home. It will be perfect for an early start to the day.

What do you think about re-starting the DX on Tuesdays again? I’d like to sign up for a spot on the 20m band so that Mark can publicise it in this week’s email. No pressure on you Mike or Ross if you would prefer not to. I’m happy to fly

Solo but I thought I’d check and see how you feel about it. What do you think? In a few weeks’ I will be driving 2000KM to southern Italy with my radio, so I hope to play from there too. 73 Simon MOKBJ [Hi Simon. Outstanding!

Standing by for more DXperiment or solo announcements.] Reply from Ross MONNK: Simon I haven’t done much radio recently – the weather has just been too horrible.

I’ve joined a radio club up near Brisbane that has an internet-accessed ICOM-7300 but there’s some question about whether or not it has CW mode. So there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to work from the east coast.

I’m in radio hibernation for another month and then I’ll brave the elements again. Your local portable location looks great! Watch out for those pesky dog walkers though. Good luck with your DX from the UK and Italy. Hopefully we’ll read about it in Ragchew.

Ross MONNK And good news from Simon: Thanks Ross and Mark, great to hear from you both again. Okay, I’ll call CQ DE MOKBU/P on ~14.052kHz from 0800-0900UTC from the outskirts of wonderful Wolverhampton on Tuesday. Really looking forward to it.

73 Simon [G’day Northerners. Outstanding! Standing by for more DXperiment or solo announcements. Simon – please post a reminder on our CQQRS WhatsApp Alerts when you’re ready to transmit.

As you saw in the CQQRS WhatsApp Rag Chew group, Jordan VK3ACU worked into France yesterday (1 think short path) with a hand-held Elecraft transceiver straight out of the box with a simple extending whip antenna utube.com/shorts/ly7WBguB kve?feature=share Happy to entertain either long path during the net, or like the Friday Kick- Back, have a separate session for short path – perhaps 40m in the early evening there if the predictions support it; alternatively there will be interest in the (slightly less challenging) higher bands of course].

Above – VOACAP Ham ionospheric predictions for UK to VK3 via the short path (left) and long path (right); 100W into 1/4 wavelength verticals at each end.

Obviously with less power and different antennas the predictions would show different probabilities of success. I’m a bit surprised at the predictions – a few sunspot cycles ago, and only part way toward the peak, I would get up early and work beaucoup Europeans on 40m on the grey line.

Anyone have recent experience about our beloved 40m band to Europe. We might have to join the fun on 10m perhaps – I hear it’s really rocking on CW these days.

Morse Training Net

Our team member Nic VK7WW runs an on-air Slow Morse training net every Wednesday at 7pm EDST on 3580 for 30 mins. He uses the callsign of the Norther Tasmania Amateur Radio Club VK7TAZ on that net.

From Clive ZL1CJB in Auckland

I’m just getting back into CW after many many years. Using a straight key hence some of the stumbles. I caught up with VK4PN after you and that was quite good. I will keep an ear out on Tuesdays. Regards Clive Brumby ZL1CJB

CW QSO Finder

From Nigel G4RWI The young woman who subrnitted the tech support message below presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep to herself.

The query: Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? Signed: Desperate The response (that came weeks later out of the blue)…

Dear Desperate, First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.

If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the Tears application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download Snoring Loudly Beta version.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources. In addition, please do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program.

These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. Tn guimmary Hiehand 4 Die a areat nranram hilt it dnec have limited mamary and

Tech Support

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do? Signed: Desperate The response (that came weeks later out of the blue)…

Dear Desperate, First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.

If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the Tears application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download Snoring Loudly Beta version.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources. In addition, please do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program.

These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.

You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0. Good Luck Tech Support

I Hear Tell…

Movement at the station…

| hear that Peter VK7KPC’s keys were cuddling for mutual support this week. There was a very large air gap in the transmission path at his new home on the South Coast of SA. The keys hope to be reunited with the radios and antennas in a couple of months.

[Thanks for the update Peter; hope your move from Evandale went well. Nice neat coax feed-through arrangement]

Out and About

NU CHP Pa from lan VK1HF Portable near Cootamundra during the week.

She’s gonna blow Cap’n…

| hear tell that Max VK6FN is going to install a 5kW BALUN on his doublet. Must be a lot of lightning around the Manjimup area!

[If you have some intel about other team members… or even yourself… that’s worth sharing, please let me know cqqrsnet@gmail.com J

Di-dah-di-dah-dait

Try your hand?

How about trying your hand at a cartoon. Below you’ll find a cartoon that’s missin¢ what the old timer is thinking. What do you reckon?

Next Tuesday’s Net

So back to the CQQRS Slow CW QSO practice net. Our CQQRS Group will be on as always on Tuesday from around 0700Z until about 1300Z; see https://bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite and navigate to the Net Details page for details.

Doesn’t matter whether you’re brand new and want to try just exchanging callsigns and RST reports, or you’re ready for a good old rag chew. We’ll have fun.

There’s usually people around until after 1300Z – so keep calling in the segment of the band designated in the table below until you catch someone.

I should be on as usual from home in NSW or via the Remote at Bedfordale WA, and I’ll also be watching the proceedings using the VK6QS and Tecsun SDRs in WA and NSW respectively. Hope to hear you there.

Please let me know via our Reports form bit.ly/CQQRSNET who you work or hear on Tuesday’s Group. The report form closes at lunchtime (Eastern Australian time) on Thursday.

Richard VK6HRC will run our phone Post Morsum on the South West AllStar net (via repeaters and hotspots all over WA) from 0600 WA time, then from 0700 WA time on 80m (8605 LSB).

See https://bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite and navigate to the Net Details page for details of how you can connect via Echolink or even possibly via your local FM repeater.

Teamwork

Thank you so much to our team of 26 contributors this week: G4RWI, MONNK. VK1HF, VK2GAS, VK3ACU, VK3BWN, VK3DRQ, VK3ECH, VK3KEV, VK3KLE, VK3WOW, VK5AO, VK5CZ, VK5FD, VKSKFG, VK6FN, VK6GS, VK6HRC, VKE6IS, VK6KD/5, VK6KHZ, VK6RR, VK6WE, VK7KPC, VK7TA and ZL1CJB.

Thank you team. GU CW on Tuesday, mb Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI Beautiful South Bowning NSW mark.bosma@icloud.com non impediti ratione cogitationis

What’s the old timer thinking? Send suggestions to cqqrsnet@gmail.com

About the CQ QRS Net

For the current schedule and more information about the CQQRS net, please go the the Net Details page on our website:

The opinions expressed in the RagChew newsletter are those of the individual contributors. The opinions do nat necessarily reflect that of the editor or of the C@ QAS Group members.

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