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2026 29 CQ QRS RagChew

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CQ QRS RagChew

Thanks this week to Richard VK6PZT at Dalyellup for the nice shot of his 2-element 20m squid-pole vertical that he used successfully on Tuesday to work Mike DL3YZ near Stuttgart.

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Wasn’t this week’s net on Tuesday interesting? 20m from Europe was worked in WA this week, 40m was showing promise with an early opening from the East to the West, but then later seemed to go to pot!

But the winner was 80m; the band was reasonably quiet (for 80m) and lots of people seemed to be having fun – including one contact from Wayne VK6NW in Bridgetown to Grant ZL2GD near Christchurch, straight after the sun set in the West – so the Western part of the D-layer my still have been receiving solar energy.

For me, 80m was a wonderful set of long relaxed rag- chews; so apologies to those who had to wait so long to hear callsigns…. if nothing else some of us were able to post Alerts on our WhatsApp group which may have helped.

Many of our team members will know or have heard of Max VK6EN from Manjimup, one of our longest-term members. Max collapsed when getting out of his car at his farm a couple of weeks ago, and was found 24 to 36 hours later by a family friend who drove out there because like many of us, he was concerned for Max’s welfare when he couldn’t be contacted.

So the good new is that Max is now recovering albeit slowly in Bunbury hospital – it’ll be a long long journey, but when I spoke to him on Sunday, he was in good spirits… determined to beat those physiotherapists who were giving him curry.

Best wishes from everyone mate – and speedy return to the key. I wonder if the Flex Maestro will fit in with all the other paraphernalia in the ward, or will it go under the blankets?

And at least one other of our team has also found himself in hospital for a major refurbishment this week; he wasn’t recommending the procedure for anyone! On, on… As Richard VK6HRC is want to say… enough waffle from me;_so let’s dive into the newsletter.

This week we hear from our resident student of Socrates (except that apparently Socrates didn’t write anything!) Ross MONNK with some thoughts that there’s an art to CW mistakes, and a bunch of other things about how un-fanatical CW enthusiasts are…

Or not; even Venus and Mars have got into the discussion. Plus a whole lot more for your reading pleasure. Dit-dit Mark Bosma VK2KI/ VK6QI GQQRS Convenor

New Team Member

| thought that Jon VK4QJ / VK4NS at Murrumba Downs had joined us back in December – but I must have had finger trouble when entering his details – anyway, he’s now part of the team and has also joined us in the CQQRS WhatsApp groups.

John originally passed the 5WPM Novice test back in the early 90s, and has more recently come back to the code and started working his way up. Welcome again Jon!

Website

• 2 2S 2 eee Sa e John’s spreadsheet above shows the known stations heard or worked on last Tuesday’s CQQRS Net (reported via our webform bit.ly/CQQRSNET ); the comments in the team members’ reports follow.

The comments were compiled for us by the clever software built by Nigel G4RWI and the layout was perfected by Patrick VK2IOW. Thanks again to Nigel, Patrick and John for the work, and to every team member who submitted a report –

[20m] This morning there were a lot of QRM from strange other stations beeping all over my frequency range. Maybe they were chasing some DX, I could not figure out what they were doing.

But I managed to contact Manny VK3DRQ, Stan ZL3TK (with the help of the SDR in Ironstone, but this works great 😉 ). And there is a new station in our DXPerime! VK6PZT. Thanks for all the calls and have a great week, Mil

[40m] Had a QSO with Maitland in VK5. He was just able to copy me. His signal was Q5 at my QTH despite QSB. Thank you Mait for your patience. Now I have information regarding VK6FN, Max Faulkner.

Max was visited by Mark VK6BSA and Deena VK6DEE in Bunbury Hospital. We had a hone. Max is out of ICU and now on the medical usual debate about who has the better antenna (hs > better one), and it was apparent his recent fall hax

From Grant ZL2GD at Oxford, North Canterbury

[80m] Conditions across the pond to VK are really good at present. All the VK6S I heard tonight were S5 and over. It was great to catch up with Wayne VK6NW and a real surprise to know that we last worked each other in 1992 !!

And to boot, we both lived in New Plymouth back in the day.

[80m] I have been on air less over the past few weeks due to a TX issue where the output power has been a bit low. I’m not sure where the problem is, but it may be a loose connection somewhere.

Other than that, I have always tried to scan the bands on Tuesday night. Thanks, and keep up the good work, guys.

[20m] Not a sausage. Sure, plenty of Euros on 20 m – that’s normal. But I was fishing for DX and hooked nothing. Not even a nibble.

Many thanks to Stan ZL3TK for his feedback on how I was being heard on various web SDRs – it’s always good to know that one’s beeps are leaving the antenna.

And “thank you” to Mike DL3YZ for calling me for a short euro chat so that I on our QRS Net even if it wasn’t in Oceania.

[80m] I didn’t sit down at the radio until just before NZ midnight. I called CQ QRS on 80 metres for a while but didn’t get any replies… and no spots or the RBN. But I could see my signal reaching our Chatham Islands and another SDR station in Canterhiiry

[40m] Noisy and riptide QSB! I tried my 40m beast homebrew QRP (kept the fire extinguisher handy!) bt not a good night for QRP so played on my HermesLite2 with 50AMP homebrew linear.

I was listening on my active loop care of mini kits in S.A (Mark VK5LO) it works quite well. I will attach a photc of my new masterpiece garden sculpture…. The neighbours know I am truly a head case. 73

[80m] The 80m band was wide open to east coast and ZL land from this QTH, and quiet for a change until about 2300 UTC. Very suprised to work Grant ZL2GD after 34 years when I first worked him as a novice call. Big world!

Worked Paul VK5PH and Mark VK2KI so lucky to have two royal family contacts in one night. Great to catch up with David VK6KD for a quick chat.

[40m] There were no signals when I tuned in and no response to my CQ for five minutes which I took as poor conditions. As I turned off the rig the beginning of a signal flashed on the waterfall so I powered up again to find Ron, VK6PZT calling strongly.

We had a short QSO during which two other signals appeared. I then m ansrizirs £1… a Thea Wee OITA oan eee a

IS RR yea a De i a oe beatin VK6KHZ roiewed Lay Wayne, VK6NW. I was Rieseedl sith these pass followed bya weaker signal from VK5A0 which I attempted to contact. This would have made my day as the first morse contact outside WA.

Unfortunately the signal did not hold out and I could not copy enough of the response to establish contact. It turned out to be one of my best morse sessions saved at the last moment!

[40m] QSB was hampering me a little this week on 40m. I moved onto 80 where QSB was less noticeable.

[80m] 80m appeared open to the East coast of Oz and NZ »S stations deep in QSO but didn’t time my

[15m] No sign of Edgar on either RF or the Live Status Monitor, but tried anyway. Unable to hear myself even on local SRDs such as Marahau across water at 190 km or Climie at 77 km, due no doubt to immediate skip zone and high-angle launch.

[20m] A surprising number of good signals here, but no sign of the QRS cohort direct. Worked DL3YZ 571 via N Ireland SDR with him listening on Ironstone – totally successful QSO using the prescribed method.

Later, MONNK was too weak into N Ireland, however 531 into GBJNJ SDR ‘up the road’ ~ 56 km from Budleigh Salterton. Fantastic armchair copy of them both.

[40m] Heard a few weak stations, didn’t note down any callsigns, however easily recognised OM Manny’s distinctive fist.

[80m] A lot of noise and no signals heard. Same for 160 m. Partawronemrencaawmaey

20m] A surprising number of good signals here, but no sign of the QRS cohort direct. Worked DL3YZ 571 via N Ireland SDR with him listening on Ironstone – totally successful QSO using the prescribed method.

Later, MONNK was too weak into N Ireland, however 531 into GBJNJ SDR ‘up the road’ ~ 56 km from Budleigh Salterton. Fantastic armchair copy of them both.

[40m] Heard a few weak stations, didn’t note down any callsigns, however easily recooniced OM Mannv’e dictinctive fict

From Ron Cullen VK7ME at Hobart Tasmania

[40m] I have been absent from CQQRS for a while due to holidays etc and it was great to get back on and make a contact with lan VKSCZ. I was a bit rusty and amazed at how much I had forgotten with my CW learnings.

I did try to make other contacts on the “calling frequencies” throughout the evening but didn’t have much luck. Oh well, better luck next week after I have had a bit more practice.

[80m] 80 metres. Sorry Wayne (VK6NVW), my noise level got the better of your signal even though it was quite strong. My attempt to reduce the noise level did not help either.

[40m] Good conditions, was using Ten Tec Omni IV. VK2WP was on xtal locked Drake 2NT transmitter sounding excellent.

They were both on – they had both reported-in on Mike’s Runners Point website. But it was great to hear Richard VK6PZT working Mike using his vertical squid-pole antenna in 2-element Yagi configuration – good to hear that the owner of Richard’s business gave him half a day off work too (I’d heard about that fellal); sorry, I’l try to keep the in-jokes to a minimum.

[40m] Down to 40m to give our new fuzzy cluster bands a try. The band seemed full of strange noises and weak signals, with only a few strong QRS ones.

I gave our centre frequency 7025 a go – and after a few CQs I was rewarded by a nice chat with Wal VK2WP just over at Bathurst; hadn’t spoken to Wal for a while.

Lan VK5CZ and David VK3DBD were both romping in here, and I noticed Ron VK6KHZ chatting to Maitland VKSAO – surprising that Ron was coming through fairly early in the evening here – the band usually doesn’t open to the West until later.

In parallel, I noticed that my own signal was very weak into the VK5PH KiwiSDR at Ironstone Range – normally I would expect good signals at that time.

After dinner I had a listen to 40m, but there was too many odd weak high-speed signals, and not much QRS action happening… good reason to head down to 80m.

[80m] 80m was a pearler! I heard Adrian VK2WF over at Talong and gave him a call – but z State-side station was coming through (weakly to me but Adrian gave him 559), so I left them to it.

I listened in to some of the QSOs – great to hear David VK6KD working across to Adrian, and Wayne VK6NW working Paul VK5PH the owner of the famous Ironstone Range KiwiSDR.

Then after lots of CQs I could see on the Ironstone Range SDR that there were more stations on, and I was lucky to be called by Ketut VK3BWN at Keilor East. We had a nice 30 minute chew of the rag before I was called by Merv VK3ADX in Ballarat.

It had been more than a year since I’d spoken to Merv, and we enjoyed a nice relaxed 45 minute chat about my recent visit to his fair city…

Including as it turned out, his local supermarket and laundromat Next up was Wayne VK6NW pouring in RSN 551 through my lossy phasing noise canceller – and Wayne gave my 50 Watts 599 in return!

Wayne told the story of a contact with Grant ZL2GD just after dusk in the West – remarkably stable signal and remarkable that the D-layer had faded so early.

Also interestingly, Wayne told me that he had had a CW QSO with Grant when Wayne was first licensed and they both lived in New Plymouth – many many years ago.

Both were using different callsigns now, but they worked out that they had worked on CW all those years ago! How did they work that out? Now… do you think I head-copied all of that over 3500 km on 80m via QRS? Nope!

As Ross MONNK has told us, for people like me, head-copy is mostly guesswork! I got the gist, but the details actually came from Wayne on Wednesday’s Post Morsum callback! Phew (actually, I learned from Wednesday’s Wordle… it’s probably ‘pshaw’)!

Anyway, after a nice 30 minutes with Wayne, I was called by an interesting-sounding signal… now let me see… school holidays and an interesting-sounding signal – sure enough it had to be George VK2AOE up at Kogarah.

George was testing his newest project, a Minikits active magnetic loop – I didn’t hear what transmitter he was using… I suspect either a spark transmitter or he was keying with two bits of wire tapping together, not sure. Good thing we’re mates!

Great fun to copy anyway – thanks George, and I look forward to reading your report to find out about the transmit side. So… what a terrific night – the higher bands were just so-so…. but 80m was outstanding! So I wonder what was going on?

40m from SNSW to the VKSPH KiwiSDR at Ironstone Range was just about non-existent, but 80m from WA to New Zealand was open very very early.

I guess the ionisation was low enough for the D- layer to dissolve early, and for the higher 40m frequencies to not be refracted as normal, but just enough for 80m to be sustained in multiple hops from the West and arronce tha Nitch

[15m] The Southern Electronics Group VK6SEG KiwiSDR at Hoddys Well near Northam was out of action this week, so I had a go listening to Bevan VK6BL‘s KiwiSDR with it’s 19m long-wire antenna and 9:1 BALUN, much further South at Mount Barker.

Nothing heard from Edi on 15m this week.

[20m] Nothing heard from Mike or Ross in WA this week, which made it even better that Richard got through ok from Dalyellup on his vertical Yagi. Great to hear the band open from WA this week (presumably on the long path – did anyone check the predictions?).

[40m] Good local contacts on 40m – got called away before 40m got good DX.

[80m] Got a half day off work, so I set up the 2 element squid pole yagi on 20m pointed long path to DL, did a quick test CQ only to have DL3YZ reply almost instantly !!!! Great Work MIKE.

I’m hoping to get a 3rd 12m spiderbeam for my birthday to add a director to the antenna!!!!

[80m] Late start again, did not get on air until 10:30 UTC. Grand I kids come first. As usual a quick check of FT8 segment to assess propagation, East Asia, US and VK6 stations were coming through so CONDX seemed promising.

A lot of traces on Ironstone SDR all around new proposed O was with Wayne VK6NW. We had a number of contacts over

Time. On this occasion he was RSN 587 but with a lot of QRN so the copy was not easy. Managed 3 more QSO all very long and true QRS. What was surprising was the strength of signals from stations with modest power or almost QRP.

George VK2AOE was 579 with 50 W and Daniel VK2HLM was also 579 but with only 10 W. Both had good carrier traces at Ironstone SDR as well. Last QSO on 80m was with VK2DLF.

I had to flip through a lot of pages of my paper log to get the name, just shows how long since I last had a chat with George. So propagation was quite good but noisy with plenty of QRN to make copy challenging.

[160M] Spent quite a bit of time on 160M but unfortunately did not manage any contacts. Prior to calling a customary check of ZL (Marahau ), VK5 (Ironstone ) and VK6 (all ) SDRs to assess propagation.

I could see my carrier only at Ironstone and as it was quite solid I kept calling CQ at 1825 KHz. Unfortunately nothing heard at my QTH or seen at Ironstone SDR.

FT8 segment at 1840 KHz was also visible and I spotted some activity so tuned on frequency to check. It was VK3EVP calling JA7 station. I listened for a while trying to decode JA rather than calling VK3EVP.

So based on Ironstone and a direct VK3 VK4 links 160 m was useable. Lack of interest in 160 metre band is most likely due to inadequate antennas as it is challenging to stretch enough wire in an average suburban backyard to achieve an acceptable VSWR.

Post Morsum 15 July 2026

From Richard VK6HRC. Seven on the VK6RLM rptr and AllStar/Echolink hub this morning.

VK6QI = Mark VK6KD David VKNW Wayne ZL3TK Stan VK6SKY lan VK6HRC VK6MRB Muligar

Mark did not manage to work our Northern Hemisphere friends but listened out for them on the Ironstone Range Kiwi sdr in VK5 and the Mount Barker kiwi sdr in VK6. On 40 m worked Wal VK2WP, heard six and on 80 m had four lengthy contacts.

Did a fine job of spotting on WhatsApp as usual. David tuned across 40 m but no contacts there, worked two on 80 m and heard five. He is also working on his 160 m set up and hoping to get some contacts soon.

Wayne managed to work two on 40 m, conditions were not good but on 80 m where conditions were great had a lot of contacts. Had a bonus contact with Grant ZL2GD in New Plymouth, a blast from the past !

Stan reported that 40 m was that bad he was not hearing his signal on a nearby Kiwi sdr ! lan was mobile on his way to work callled in to say hello.

Ihad a contact with Ron VK6KHZ on 40 m and then headed out to the NCRG club to sit in the co pilots seat next to Lin VK6NT as he got busy on 40 m using the VK6NC club call sign. Headed home later and listened out on 80 mas it was still busy.

Thank you to all on last night and this morning. 73 Richard.

Reporting

After next Tuesday’s Group, please remember to send me a list of who you worked and / or who you heard using our web form here:

Even if you didn’t hear anyone, we’d still like to know that you had a go. And to make your report more interesting, please consider sending a photo: cqarsnet@gmail.com So, please help attract new and old team members to have a go by submitting your report each week.

Submissions close 1300 (Eastern Australian Summer time)_on Thursdays.

The Art of Mistakes

At breakfast this morning, I was reading an article about the impact of Al on our language (written by an Al maybe? that would be ironic).

The gist of it was, now that many people are using Al to ‘tidy up’ their emails and CVs, they’re coming to regard the Al literary style as aspirational – the way it ‘should’ be done.

At the same time, people get annoyed when text (or images or music) is obviously Al-generated! No, I don’t understand that double-think either.

My first thought was, “Well, Morse Code will be the last bastion against the flood of ‘Al slop’ because it’s so very different from everyday speech”.

But a moment’s reflection made me realise that it would be a trivial thing to code a bot that read the Vband decoder and learned to emulate that style.

“Good luck with that”, I thought – the Vband decoder requires almost perfect sending, and that rarely occurs with a human on the key. The result is often gibberish on the screen.

I confess that I use a mixture of head copying (my ear/brain can often make sense of code that the decoder can’t get), reading off the screen, and plain old guesswork (how many times have I said that, “Morse is a guessing game”?).

I’m not sure if Al can head copy Morse code, but let’s say “not”. Let’s assume it can only read from the decoder. In that case, it’s going to learn a whole load of nonsense.

To emulate a human Morse operator, it’s going to have to master The Art of Mistakes and Sloppy Sending (aka TAMSS, for all you geeks out there who love acronyms): + The first and easiest mistake is to send your own callsign incorrectly. Twice.

* Next send a F whenever you mean an L. And an X whenever you mean a P. + When sending a number, always add an extra dit or dah. Try again but now send a dit or dah too few. Give up and send the number as a word.

+ Send the wrong letter in the middle of a word and, instead of sending that word again from the beginning, just keep going with the correct letter even though the word doesn’t make sense any more.

* Get halfway through a word and realise that it’s coming out all wrong. Try again. And again. And again. Perseverance is your middle name so keep at it. Don’t even consider an alternative word – that’s defeatist talk and you’ll have none of it.

• And the finishing touch to any Over, leave off the terminal K or or so that the other operator doesn’t know you’ve finished sending. Al might be clever, but is it that clever? Can it emulate us?

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; for guidance on writing for RagChew, see Articles below. Please email material to Mark VK2KI: cqqrsnet@gmail.com

On My Workbench

Something interesting being brewed-up by George VK2AOE – a multi-elemer magnetic loop antenna – based on the MiniKits active loop antenna board.

And the directional control on the notebook computer.

Of course, by sending through these mouth-watering images, George is setting himself up for a future On My Workbench article! Thanks mate.

And after some head-scratching about his strange-sounding CW keying on Tuesday, Mystery solved; Geroge reported: “I changed my version of Thetis and it didn’t save my CW settings.

I think we are back to post 1930S keying tone….The semi break in button needs to be on. I asked Al and it directed me to my own video….! make the videos to remind myself how to fix stuffl! @)”. Heh heh!

What’s going on on your workbench? If you have an article or two that you think might be of interest to our readers, please let Mark VK2KI know; email to cqqrsnet@gmail.com For guidance on writing for RagChew, see Articles below.

QRZ? Who’s on the other end?

CW Practice

This year we’re using Aesop’s Fables. These are short moral stories, often using talking animals, that illustrate simple truths about human behaviour and character.

‘Aesop’s Fables originated in ancient Greece, traditionally attributed to the storyteller Aesop who is thought to have lived around the 6th century BCE.

The fables are generally smaller files of two to three hundred words that have been recorded at 15 wpm and run for about 15 minutes.

If 15 wpm is a bit quick for you, load it onto your phone and set the playback speed at 0.75 X or even 0.5 X- whatever works for you. 0.75 X will play the MP8 at a bit under 12 wpm. Itis suggested that you read the text file before listening to the audio file.

That will make it easier to follow the audio file and prepare you for any unusual words. Any punctuation that is not usually used with CW has been removed. This week’s fable is ‘The Eagle and the Fox’, and the MP3 and TXT files are attached here –

If you prefer a different speed or tone, you can create your own MP3 files by converting the text file with the Ebook2CW app — https://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html.

You can either play the MP3 files in any media player, or load the text file into the Ditto CW: Morse Player app — https://dittocw.andro.io/.

Both options work well, however Ditto CW gives you complete control over all Morse settings, while a normal media player only allows changes to playback speed, and does that in steps (e.g. +1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x).

Other News

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this cold morning image from Lake Murdeduke Wildlife Reserve. Jordan had a ball – 34 contacts in an hour – wow!

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this cold morning image from Lake Murdeduke Wildli had a ball – 34 contacts in an hour – wow!

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 Northern Tasmania Amateur Radio Club VK7TAZ on that net.

Many of our team learned Morse code with the support of Nic, and the weekly training session comes highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn the Code, or simply brush up.

Everyone’s welcome – 3580KHZ at 7pm Eastern time every Wednesday; you’ll hear lots of the CQQRS team on that net. Jordan VK3ACU has ralso ecorded the complete set of lessons which you can now find here:

Https://www. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHsQmZz6fBXO7swAfbT mutrbbEL17fUQL Contact Nic VK7WW for more info nicholaschantler@hotmail.com including how to join the NTARC DISCORD group to follow the action, or just come along and join in on Wednesdays.

Ross MONNK Roughing It

If you’ve read something that you think might be of interest to our readers, please email to Mark VK2KI: cqgrsnet@gmail.com

Readable Five

What have you been reading lately? Zompiled on the track somewhere by John VK2RU

The CW Way of Life

The UW Way oT Life Learning, Living and Loving Morse Code Chris Rutkowski MorseBusters Publishing 2023 This book has a whole 301 pages devoted to the Code, without repetition or padding.

The author covers a comprehensive list of topics that are well laid out in tt opening index and addressed in the body of the book.

These include the history of the Code, the rhythmic underpinning of the Code, (fitting dits, dahs and spaces intc a steady rhythm which the author refers to “getting on the dit train”), “hard copy v head copy”, the learning path to recognising characters, the ergonomics of correct keying (he regards ‘arm on the table’ as an ergonomic error and has his key on the edge of the table), his preference for the “navy knob” in straight keys, the value of “code talking” in learning and sending, QSO etiquette and structure, abbreviations and useful Q

Codes. He includes a number of training exercises and drills to increase accuracy and speed, drawing parallels with the athletic world. I rate this book highly (and have already moved my key to the edge of the desk) Greg VK5KFG

Prosign/Character/Signal of the Month

[Put it on a sticky note near your key as a reminder for Tuesday…. and tell us how you went!]

I Hear Tell…

Not everything ran smoothly at the Beautiful South Bowning Antenna Test Range thi: week.

And not everything went smoothly for Jordan VK3ACU’s quick loop around Western Viintaria thie WO4BL

And not everything went smoothly for Jordan VK3ACU’s quick loop around Western Victoria this week.

Hopefully this time less trouble than he caused last year! But…. 37 contacts on Tuesday, 56 on Wednesday! Fanatical? Nah!

Keep an eye out on our WhatsApp Alerts group for more locations on Jordan’s adventurous (but not fanatical!?) trek.

Nice spot – Kara Kara National Park near St Arnaud – third VKFF PARKS / Parks On The Air spot on Thursday…. after working over 100 stations that day – yowzal!

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

Di-dah-di-dah-dit

So back to the CQQRS Slow CW QSO practice net.

Next Tuesday’s 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.

Reports & Photos

Please let us know via our Reports form bit.ly/CQQRSNET who you work or hear on Tuesday’s Group. The report form closes at 1pm (Eastern Australian time) on Thursday. And how about helping to make the reports even more interesting by sending a photo?

If you have a photo that you’d be happy to include, please email it to: cqqrsnet@gmail.com And of course, we’re always on the lookout for more photos for the newsletter, so if you have something that might be of interest aside from the reports, please send it through as well.

Email to cqgrsnet@gmail.com please. Oh and by the way, I recommend that you don’t keep the Reports Form website open between submission of reports from one week to the next.

If you’re unlucky, there’s an undocumented feature in the software that could cause your current week’s report to be combined with your previous report – it’s happened to your editor several times – much to the chagrin of our Reports editor 🙂

Post Morsum

Richard VK6HRC will run our phone Post Morsum on Wednesday mornings on the South West AllStar net (via repeaters and hotspots all over WA) from 0600 WA time, then from 0700 WA time on 80m (3605 LSB).

See https://bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite and navigate to the Net Details page for details of how you can connect via Echolink from anywhere in the world.

Articles

Could you write a short article or articles for RagChew? You bet! Writing not your strong point? Don’t worry, I’m very happy to help as much or as little as needed.

Oh, and one more thing (actually two) – copyright material: * please use your own images – don’t use images copied from the internet unless you have the producer’s permission, or they’re marked ‘Creative Commons’ or similar; ¢ if you include other peoples’ written material, unless you have permission, you may only include small snippets (unless it’s marked ‘Creative Commons’ or similar), and you’ll need to site the source and author.

For more guidance on writing for the RagChew newsletter (including how you might even try using one of the new Artificial Intelligence tools), head to our website bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite then click the menu on the top right and then click RagChew Newsletter.

Material

A reminder; if you send me any information by email, our report form or WhatsApp – unless you specifically state that material is not to be published, I’ll assume that you’re happy to see your thoughts in the RagChew newsletter.

Teamwork

Thank you so much to our team of 30 contributors: DL3YZ, MONNK, VK2AOE, VK2DI, VK2KI, VK2TIG, VK2WP, VK3ACU, VK3BWN, VKSBYD, VK3DRQ, VK3ECH, VK3KLE, VK4PE, VK4PN, VK5FD, VK5KFG, VK6HRC, VK6JDM, VK6KD, VK6KHZ, VK6NW, VK6PZT, VK6QI, VK6WE, VK7JZ, VK7ME, ZL2GD, ZL3ABX and ZL3TK.

And a special thank you to our editorial team, Nigel G4RWI (head of reporting software development), Patrick VK2IOW (reports coordinator), John VK2RU (spreadsheet manager), Richard VK6HRC (post morsition), Jordan VKSACU (head gagster) and Ross MONNK (seconded from the Philosophy Department).

Great work all! GU CW on Tuesday, Lance VK7TO Margate TAS Editor cqqrseditor@gmail.com

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