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2024 28 CQ QRS RagChew

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CQ QRS Ragchew

Here’s this week’s list of the 45 of our team heard; there were about another dozen stations heard or worked listed who have yet to join our team:

Terrific outcome eh? Thank you to everyone who came up and made it so worthwhile for the others.

Reports

After next Tuesday’s net, please send me a list of who you worked and / or who you heard using our new web form here: bit.ly/CQQRSNET

Getting reports from stations and listeners is important to me – even if you listened and didn’t hear anyone or weren’t able to copy anything – the fact that you had a go needs to get recorded so we know that the net is working and attracting new and old team members to have a go.

Thanks again to Nigel G4RWI for building the Google Form, the Python software back-end that does the processing, the new link and the QR code.

And a huge thank you to each and every one who took the time to send me a report this week – they all make great reading – see below. Cheers, mb Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI Beautiful South Bowning NSW mark.bosma@icloud.com non impsditi ratione cogitationis

Reports & Comments

The spreadsheets above show the known stations on last Tuesday’s net; team members’ callsigns re in the left hand column. Comments distilled from the report I’ve received are below:

Comments:

[40m] «It was great to catch up with Mark VK2KI at last and actually managed to work him from both sides of VK tonight – ah the wonders of modern technology…

[40m] : Great to be on air again – Pleased to be Lin’s VK6NT first contactfor the evening © ¢«

[80m] : It’s a bit rainy in Melbourne which may affect my antenna performance but all in all a good QSO with VK3DBD * Tnx David e

From Ganrone VKOAODE at Konnarah in Svdneav

From George VK2AOE at Kogarah in Sydney

[40m] + Took the QMX Plus for a spin, which was newly constructed and had a nice rag chew with lan VK5CZ in SA. I lost lan the last time I was on, when my Monster 40m homebrew belched smoke and died!

+ This time I was on my 12 band 2.5 to 5 Watt QRP Labs QMX Plus, which I finished building the day before and it performed admirably with a 579 report to South Oz. Works great on CW and FT8 etc.

I like to build so will build the QRP labs amp kit (60w) for my favourite bands or build one and switch LPF etc. 78 de VK2AOE George

[80m]. VK6KRC answered my call at 9.55 UTC. A weak signal but readability 4 to 5. He was however using SSB to answer my CW CQ. Almost got him using that key at last.

Finally have got the rig running properly, 100 watts CW with back wave suppressed by 60DB and all spurious components more than 50 dB down. Took 2 days of wet weather to get there. [Woooo – wonders never cease…. VA6KRC responding to your CW!

Doesn’t qualify for a first ever CW QSO… but it’s a huge step in the right direction! What are you going to talk about if not for Bob’s general lack of CW activity 🙂 ]

From IAN VK5CZ at Clare

From Joe VK2KJJ at Wagga Wagga

[80m] * Testing the newly built Mid Band (60- 15) QMX from QRP Labs «| swapped 60m for 80m and was keen to see how it performed thanks to Peter and Jordan for their reports * Transmit power was about 5.2 Watts * The rig was built for a 9V supply to achieve that from my three 18650 cells.

From Jordan VK3ACU at Meredith

• Very distracted tonight, Finally finished repairing the IC-730 I picked up from a hamfest a few months ago that had everything you could imagine wrong with it (I knew this when I purchased it).

+ Anyway finally got it on the air tonight and was distracted keeping a nose out for the magic smoke (all went well) and made a few QSO’s with it ;).

• + Good job with your QMX Warren – I must build one some day… nice signal. + Nice QSO with Stan until the end where he got stomped on by someone tuning up + Also had a fast contact with Phil VK3VB he was running 10 watts, a little a bit quicker than I was expecting but was good + Mark Hope everything is ok with your rig and the water hasn’t messed with your feed line too much; nice QSO.

I got very tired towards the end as I’m sure you could tell, I slowed WAY down, 11PM is way past my bed time + Did I get you with the $ sign?

– very hard to send when your not used to it and falling asleep + Thanks everyone for the nice QSOs and putting up with me being distracted with the 730 hope to see you all again next week [Heh heh… yup – my 45-odd year old TS-120S survived yet another night.

Very hard to send the $ sign when falling asleep… how do you think it was at my end when I was also falling asleep! If you hadn’t let me know via our parallel CQQRS WhatsApp net, I’d still be in the dark!

Actually I’m like that with most prosigns, truth be told!]

[40m] * Grand conditions initially then gradually deteriorated + Formal telegram traffic was passed for the first time between group members + One of the items originated in VK6, then was relayed by a VK3 to ZL + Deteriorating conditions provided a good demonstration of how patience and repeats are often necessary to ensure the check sum matches the text and the text makes sense + Why?

Because in the old days maritime traffic was being handled for paying customers, so it had to be 100 % accurate *WORKED6 + HEARD9 — No success 1

[80m] + For the first time in months there was evidence of activity on 80m, not just heard but worked as well * Conditions were better than average but repetitive CQs brought no fruit + Worked 3 + HEARD4 No success 0 *

[40m] + Not many stations heard tonight, far less noise than 80 mts

[80m] * Very noisy band, Aurora noise suggested by VK2KI.

[40m] + shared a quick chat with Jordan whilst I was waiting for a meeting to start * A pity that I didn’t have more time as it was a nice QSO cut short

[80m] * Conditions were noisy, but the signals strong enough to make 80 m viable + I only really had time for a single QSO later in the evening, but best laid plans + Starting with Max in Manjimup, I think this was my first QRS contact to WA; anice surprise + As soon as we signed off, Manuel called, and we proceeded to have a great 35-minute chat about straight keys and bugs + I had to sign off in anticipation for an early start the next day, only to be called by Derek in QLD + It was nice to hear his signal again after many months, so said a quick hello before going QRT + It was fun getting back on the slow QRS net and giving my straight key some action Terrific report mate….

Funny how best laid plans go awry – but excellent that you had un – after all, isn’t that why we’re doing this?]

[40m] * I didn’t hear many stations – (I only have the quarter wave vertical at the moment «| had to take a short ‘exam’ with Stan, ZL3TK + It took a few attempts to drag Ron’s callsign, VAK6KHZ out of the noise ¢

[40m] * One gentleman couldn’t understand that the station he was working kept telling him his correct call sign had only 2 letters not 3! * Quite deep QSB at the beginning but it cleared up.

[That’s why our event is a practice QSO net Roy – to learn by experience – so all good! Thanks for being there again – terrific to have someone up in Geraldton on air again…

If you hear or chat to our old mate Terry VK6CK, twist his arm into listening-ir again when he can – Tuesdays are usually a problem for him; we also have Bob VK6KI who’s joined the team from Geraldton.]

[40m] + Some good signals heard in the Metro and listened to the weaker ones on the Kiwi SDR

[80m] + Great to work Donald VK6JDM on his new setup which is working very well and lan VK1HF with a big signal this way +

From Max VK6FN at Manjimup + Although I was a few hours late for the session, I still worked five stations. * Conditions here were quite good and a surprising amount of activity could be heard. I was not without a contact for more than just a few minutes.

* Overall another good night was enjoyed. + 73s Max + DE VK6FN *

From Arthur VK2ASB at Wentworth Falls NSW

[40m] + Noise was high but signal strengths were higher than the noise so QSOs were easy and good copy both ends + I sat down at the rig at about 0980Z and there were a few stations on air but I called for a while before my first contact for the evening + There were stations on air but not as many as I have seen in previous nights * The main thing is, I had fun and I think the ops on air had fun too, which is what itis all about

[80m] + Noise was high on 80 but not excessively so + Signals were well above the noise level so QSOs were easy and good copy both ends +

[40m] + lots of stations on tonight, plenty to choose from – Hi Hi

[80m] + Early in the evening, between 0800Z and 0900Z I worked quite a few stations in the ZL Sprint, and then I was off air until 1200Z * When I got back to 80m, I made 2 good QRS contacts + Thanks everyone.

• From me VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning

[40m] * Both the Tecsun and VK6QS KiwiSDRs were in use when I started listening around 0700Z, so I connected to Paul VK5PH’s KiwiSDR at Ironstone Ridge; signals were romping-in from all over the place and I was looking forward to an interesting night on the net + First up I heard John VK5ET at Hope Valley chatting to lan VK7TA at Latrobe, followed by Dylan VK3AE at Ballarat chatting to Armin VK2GAS at Norwest * The band was nicely open to ZL with Mick ZL1HU at Te Kuiti working Georg VK2DLF at St Marys

• I then listened to Ron VK6KHZ at Yangebup working Craig VK5QA/P at Jarrahdale WA in high winds and pourinc rain, then Roy VK6RR up at Geraldton.

• +I called CQ without luck then listened to Wal VK2WP chatting to Drew VK3XU and also heard ZLSTA calling + Peter ZL1PX from Waiuku was on with Phil ZL1PB at Tauranga while Ron chatted to Peter VK6IS at Wundowie + I then hooked up with Phil who was pleased to be able to get on air when not causing interference to his son-in-law’s audio gear; by then the person using all four channels of the Tecsun KiwiSDR freed them up so I was able to then listen on the Araluen NSW receiver + After Phil I went on to chat to Grant ZL2GD at Oxford and a while later heard Stan ZL8TK at Waitdrere Beach, Patrick VK2IOW at Millthorpe and lan VK3KLE at Stawell + I then tried to hook up with Colin VK2JCC at Pennant Hills without success, but went on to chat to Nic VK7WW at Legana while Manny VK3DRQ at Blackburn was heard working David VK3RU at Burwood

[80m] + On 80m I had a chat to Peter VK7KPC at Evandale who was operating with 5 Watts output, but putting a decent signal into Beautiful South Bowning + I then hooked up with Max VK6EN at Manjimup who was romping in RST 599, then John VKSET from Hope Valley who was also sending a nice signal my way + I rounded out the evening with a chat to Jordan VK3ACU – by which time both our CW fists were becoming somewhat erratic…

But we had lots of fun with the mis-spelling anyway + Mid-way through the QSO my power dropped to about 10 Watts – it started raining here and the rope supporting the (would you believe) 300 Ohm TV ribbon (the temporary feeder I put up 10 months ago – awaiting a proper balanced line to be built) started conducting; after much re-tuning of my ‘T-match, I was able to produce 50 Watts as expected again

• Mid-way through the QSO my power dropped to about 10 Watts – it started raining here and the rope supporting the (would you believe) 300 Ohm TV ribbon (the temporary feeder I put up 10 months ago – awaiting a proper balanced line to be built) started conducting; after much re-tuning of my T-match, I was able to produce 50 Watts as expected again

• From me VK6QI at via the VK6SR Remote at Bedfordale and the VK6QS– KiwiSDR near Brookton

[40m] + As I mentioned above, the VK6QS KiwiSDR was in use for the first 1-1/2 hours after the net started but eventually I called Grant ZL2GD at Oxford after working him from VK2 + After Grant I was called by Daniel VK6WE at Cottesloe and we had a nice aso + Awhile later I listened to Georg VK2DLF at St Marys chatting to Stan ZL3TK at Waitdrere Beach and Colin VK2JCC working lan VK7TA at Latrobe + Before disappearing for dinner, I heard Manny VK3DRQ at Blackburn hook up with Stan for a demonstration message handling exchange

[80m] + After dinner I moved down to 80m and heard Stan ZL3TK at Waitarere Beach exchanging a Today in History message with lan VK5CZ at Clare + I noticed a message on our CQQRS WhatsApp group from Warren VK3BYD at Wangaratta who wanted to test a transmitter; however, but the time I got there, Peter VK7KPC at Evandale had jumped on to give him a report + As mentioned above, I worked Peter from VK2, but then gave it a try from the VK6SR Remote near Perth; Peter’s § Watts was about the same strength into WA as he was here in NSW + then heard Max VK6EN at Manjimup chatting to Lance VK7ZA at Margate, and Max and I then had a quick chat before he had to trot off into the night +

[40m] + I really enjoyed my time on the net and look forwarded to next week. I am not always able to get on, my house is on my daughter’s land and my son in law is a music producer, his studio is also next to my house and a lot of the gear musicians use is very susceptible to RF so I am asked to refrain on those nights.

+ It was good to work VK2KI and so many others again although last night I was 100 watts and my Bencher Keyer. Next week I will be QRP again with my Czech straight key, as an old fella my arm gets tired quickly these days. + Cheers and 73 de Phil ZL1PB

[40m] + I managed to send a QNC to OM Stan ZLRTK, but the conditions were not that good

[80m] + To my surprise and my first time with CQ QRS on 80m and as usual S7 Noise, I made a do-ble amount of QSOs * Only 2 on 40m and 4 on 80m +I can certainly say…

It was three hours well spent and full of fun + By the way, we should congratulate those excellent operators that have shown us, they are not learning CW; they are experts on that, *

[40m] + Only heard a couple of stations locally so I went for the AREG SDR and even there, not many stations on 40 last night +

From Richard VK6PZT at Dalyellup: © [ll have to send my apologies for tonight. Still got lots of work to get thru and a meeting till 7pm © Catch u next week Richard +

From Mark VK4MEX from Cardwell: © Just a quick note to let you know that I haven’t been on the air these past two months as propagation has been shithouse, even at 100 watts here in FNQ.

© Every day/night, the bands are basically dead and if you do hear stations, their RSTs are basically 327. I did manage to raise Rob VK2COS on his Remote near Nowra the other day on 10m, but that has been it. © Hence the reason why I haven’t been on the ait.

All the best Mark VK4MFX 3ad luck Mark; I hope we hear you on again soon. Interesting how propagation om the low latitudes is so different to down South.

Have you tried 80m late at night seems that the band opens into WA from Southern Queensland – be interestin gto 2¢ if the same applies up where you are – over a similar distance.

Never mind – opetully as we head toward the equinox things will favour the net nights for you gain.]

By Richard VA6HRC I enjoyed our 6am WA time Post Morseum net on the WA AllStar network this morning. On today : + ZL3TK Stan * VK6KHZ Ron * VK6QI Mark * VK6KRC Bob + VK6FN Max – tried but was unable to get into the AllStar network * our shortwave listeners and myself.

Stan had a good night apart from battling the low temperature in his shack. Ron enjoyed the net worked five stations not as many as last week though.

Mark still battling with a cold got on and made contacts on 40 mx and 80 mx as well as keeping the WhatApp alerts going. Bob got on and had a CW to SSB contact with Donald VK6JDM, great news indeed.

I monitored 40 mx until it was time for the 80MX slot and worked Donald and lan VK1HF. Alot more was discussed and all will be revealed in the next RagChew. So once again thank you Mark for your hard work, get well soon. 73 Richard VK6HRC

By Stan ZL3TK

O9JUL24 NW A MESSAGE FOR YOU. PSE REPEAT IT BACK, OK? BK QTC TODAY IN HISTORY QSL? DE ZL3TK KN 1. BRITISH BATTLESHIP HMS VANGUARD EXPLODED TODAY 1917 AT SCAPA FLOW DUE TO FAULTY CORDITE KILLING 804. Sent to: VK5CZ (40 m) 2.

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK BY BILL HAYLEY AND THE COMETS TOPPED BILLBOARD CHARTS TODAY 1955 AS ONE OF BEST SELLING SINGLES EVER. Sent to: VK2DLF (40 m) 3. THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP BEGAN TODAY 1877 AT WIMBLEDON FOR MENS SINGLES ONLY.

Sent to: VK2GAS (40m) VK5CZ (80m) 4, ENGLISH NATURALIST CHARLES DARWIN STATED TODAY 1857 A SCIENTIFIC MAN OUGHT TO HAVE NO WISHES, NO AFFECTATIONS, A MERE HEART OF STONE. Sent to: VK6BEK (40 m) This week saw a smooth performance by all players; thank you all.

Other News

‘Two Examples of Traffic Handling by Stan ZL3TK It wasn’t planned, but circumstances provided an opportunity to demonstrate simple traffic handling to the CQ QRS Group on Tuesday.

Manny VK3DRQ and I exchanged some traffic normally exchanged on the the weekly 80m NZ Net on Mondays. Normally, I would send one traffic message on that net and listen for replies, this week, Manny and I had trouble with propagation, so we decided to do the exchange at QRS speed during our CQQRS net instead.

Manny also had traffic to send to me which would normally be exchanged on the VKCW Net on Wednesdays. The exchange took place at 0940Z on 7.025 MHz on Tuesday and was conducted at low speed as encouragement and an example for those in the Group who may be interested in learning a bit about traffic handling.

If nothing else, I hoped it would be good receiving practice for listeners. I was keen to see if we received any other replies; if you did listen and decode some or all of the messages, please send me an email: zi3tk@qsl.net As in real life, deteriorating conditions made it not as simple as hoped but required a number of word repeats to ensure the Check field matched the word count and each word made sense.

Patience and consideration are traits needed by traffic handlers, otherwise errors are possible… but are not acceptable. Here is the first message which was a relay of OM Roy’s VKCW Net summary for June.

The back-office fields at the bottom of the form show local NZ time and reveal the QNC was relayed by OM Manny VK3DRQ.

The second message was a repeat of a QNC first sent on NZ Net the night before, but on this occasion it had been readdressed to the CQ QRP Group.

This indicates that it was an open invitation to do a little research and reply with your own QTC to the ‘Station of Origin’.

G4RWI Callsign Confusion – The Next Iteration

Quick update from G4RWI or VK/G4RWI or G4RWI/VK (depending on your interpretation of international reciprocal licensing 🙂 ), but better known these days as Mark’s Newsletter IT man!

As you may or may not know, Jo my partner and I spend roughly half a year in VK/ZL and half a year in Europe. We try to miss the winter in both, and I’m currently writing this in a very warm (30C) France.

Since last being on the QRS net, we’ve spent 3 weeks in ZL visiting any daughter and my new grandson. Then a very long series of flights back to UK, avoiding an active volcano in Indonesia and getting stuck in Dubai because of torrential rain (21!) We have RV’s in both hemispheres, and the northern one had to be recovered from secure storage at an RAF/US airforce base in Suffolk.

Amazingly she started first time, I assumed I would at least have a flat battery after 6 months! After a bit of sensible maintenance we are back travelling. Have managed to fit in a bit of volunteering at Bletchley Park at the National Radio Centre.

The 40’s weekend was particularly good. All the volunteers, staff and visitors dress in 1940’s attire. Always popular with the NRC volunteers, as most of them can just wear their normal wardrobe 🙂

My other main interest is motorcycling, and we took part in a 1000 mile in 24 hours charity ride, that saw us travelling to the top of Scotland and back ona very cold/wet/windy June day.

We then went off to the Isle of Wight music festival (famed for legendary performances from Jimi Hendrix, not there this year on account of him being dead)…

Also got reminded of the association the Isle of Wight has with Marconi (.who apparently did some radio related stuff in his time). The Island was where he moored his boat whilst conducting the transatlantic tests.

All that done with we headed off to France for a month or so. Travelling with the IC705 again and the same mast and EFHW that I had in VK/ZL, but this time with my beloved Begali paddle. ‘Amazing how much better you send with a proper paddle.

73 for now Nigel F/G4RWI or G4RWVF … don’t get me st

IQEL -/G4RWI or G4RWI/F … don’t get me started Heh heh – thanks Nigel. Mark’s Newsletter IT Man – how good is that? Cheers.]

SKCC Oceania QRS Saunter Heads up that the next Straight Key Century Club’s QRS Saunter will be held on Saturday & Sunday July 20TH and 21ST. More details in the next Newsletter – but it’s open for everyone, SKCC members or not.

See the SKCC website a few days before-hand if you’d like to get a free membership number that can be exchanged with each Saunter QSO if its with another member.

Nic VK7WW runs a 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.

The NTARC also feeds the CW live via the Discord phone / computer audio stream, and previous weeks’ recordings are available. Contact Nic VK7WW for more info nicholaschantler@hotmail.com – or just join in on Wednesdays.

This Week’s Topic of Interest

Whilst looking around the Poldhu Radio Museum (see RagChew edition 24/2024) I came across two straight keys that caught my attention. The first was this one…

Marked “G.P.O. 2023” and with a “SEND RECEIVE” lever next to the main lever, it was a telegraph key used by the General Post Office operators (double current, Vulcanite base).

Telegrams would be received by the station radio operators who would then physically pass them to the station telegraph operators for transmission along landlines across the nation. As such, no radio operator would be allowed to touch this key!

It was still in working order – when the lever was depressed, that activated the large relay device to its left. These keys come up for auction from time to time, often with the associated relay. So they are not rare as such, but interesting.

The other key was a Marconi Maritime 365A…

On key down, the brass bar at the far end of the lever breaks the circuit between the two auxiliary contacts at the rear, desensitising the receiver. There’s an earth post at the rear right corner.

The six connecting strips are labelled TR TL BR BL AC AC -1 can’t find out what they’re for. Does anyone know? These keys were very commonly found in the radio rooms of ocean liners. It would originally have had a matching grey metal cover.

Radio officers often removed the paint and polished the brass to a high shine. The covers were known to go missing as they were frequently used as the radio room ash tray.

This particular key in the Poldhu Radio Museum was uncared-for, beat up, and badly adjusted… but it still felt beautifully smooth to operate (no doubt due to those roller bearings). “One bitten, forever smitten” – I want one!

[Thanks once again Ross – outstanding article. Like a couple of interesting Shiraz bottles, I can almost smell the ozone, bakelite and other brown smells associated with the land-based keys; and with the smooth Marconi Maritime key, I’m getting hints of salt air, fish and tobacco]

If any of our readers have something of interest to share, please let me know so we can all share more thoughts and ideas; email to cqqrsnet@gmail.com

Brain Teaser

Jules Perrin JP VK3JFP has created a terrific resource to help guide learning for all levels of amateur radio licenses: https://Awww.julesworkshop.net/Amateur%20Radio.html With thanks to Baz VK6MU for he idea, and Jules for the good learning website, here’s this week’s quiz questions from Jules’ Workshop example test questions:

Exam Questions:

What is a detector and a discriminator? The amount of forward bias required to enable a germanium transistor to commence conduction is approximately * 0.2 volt * 0.6 volt * 0.9 volt * 1.0 volt A five-eighth wave length antenna is made with a loading coil at its base to make the antenna electrically three-quarters of a wavelength long.

The reason for the antenna being electrically three-quarters of a wavelength long is to * allow for easy matching to a 50 ohm transmission line * increase the radiation angle + decrease the radiation angle * increase the bandwidth of the antenna How did you go?

Answers from last week’s Quiz:

What is a signal bandwidth? Answer: Signal bandwidth is the amount of spectrum used up by a modulated signal. Which of the following is a type of electrolytic capacitor?

* plastic + mica * tantalum * ceramic Answer: tantalum The AGC system in an AM receiver works by sampling the level of the: * carrier * modulation * frequency * deviation Answer: carrier How did you go?

Di-dah-di-dah-dit

So back to the Slow CW QSO practice net.

Next Tuesday’s Net

Our CQ QRS Net will be on as always on Tuesday from around 0700Z until about 1300Z; see below 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…

Please let me know via our Reports form bit.ly/CQQRSNET who you work or hear o1 Tuesday’s net.

Post Morsum

Richard VK6HRC will run our Post Morsum on the South West AllStar net (via repeaters and hotspots all over WA) from 0600 WA time. If you’re in WA, all you need is an FM 2m or 70CM transceiver and an AllStar node nearby.

If you’re elsewhere in the world, you may be able to connect your local AllStar-enabled repeater to the net, or you can connect via Echolink. Let me know (cqqrsnet@gmail.com) if I can help with that.

Teamwork

Thank you so much to our team of 37 contributors: G4RWI, MONNK, VK2AOE, VK2ASB, VK2DLF, VK2GAS, VK2KJJ, VK3ACU, VK3AE, VK3BWN, VK3BYD, VK3DRQ, VK3JFP, VK3RU, VK4DRK, VK4MFX, VK5AO, VK5CZ, VK5ET, VK5QA, VK3CLD, VK6BEK, VK6FN, VK6HRC, VK6IS, VK6JDM, VK6KHZ, VK6MK, VK6PZT, VK6RR, VK7KPC, VK7TA, VK7WW, VK7ZA, ZL1PB, ZL2GD, ZL3TK; your efforts are very much appreciated by me and our readers folks.

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

An Ode to CW – thanks to David VK3RU: In days of old, when ops were bold, And sideband was not invented, Words were passed by pounding brass, And all were quite contented. – Unknown author

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