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CQ QRS Ragchew
Last Tuesday’s Net
Masthead Image
Reports
Reports & Comments
Comments:
Hello all
Update from Garry VK2GA:
This Week’s Topic of Interest
Brain Teaser
Exam Questions:
Answers from last week’s Quiz:
Di-dah-di-dah-dit
Next Tuesday’s Net
Post Mortem
Teamwork
Landing Zone
CW Tips

CQ QRS Ragchew

Last Tuesday’s Net

This week there were 55 callsigns reported by the 35 of our members who were on the net on Tuesday. Here’s the list of the stations heard by each team member:

And thanks this week to Richard VK6PZT for the image of his nice restoration of a Clipsal key.

Reports

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

Thanks again to Nigel G4RWI for building the Google Form and the Python software back-end that does the processing; this weeks he’s added a couple of new enhancement that cuts the time taken for me to compile the newsletter even more….

It’ll do it itself once Nigel incorporates some Artificial Intelligence! And speaking of processing – when filling out the report form after the net, please check that you’ve put only callsigns in the Worked, Heard and Missed entry areas – any other information, notes, comments etc are now purposefully ignored by the software and I won’t get to see them; please keep comments etc for the thoughts and comments fields for 40m and 80m.

I really like receiving the reports every week – so even if you don’t hear anyone next Tuesday, please let me know that you were there; if nothing else, I need to know that the net is still useful and attracts listeners.

Reports & Comments

The spreadsheets above show the known stations on last Tuesday’s net. Comments distilled from the reports I’ve received are below:

Comments:

[40m] + After a week off, I was listening to Ironstone SDR near Adelaide. * Great to see the CQ QRS net prospering, and there are constantly new stations joining in every time. ¢«

From Ross VK/MONNK at Exeter UK via Perth WA

[40m] * The interesting thing about CW is that half the time you miss stuff and have to guess what the other guy has just said, so it’s a rolling head- puzzle!

[80m] + I was on half an hour after the start of the 80m window and conditions were good but only VK6 stations heard..

[Not to mention rascally operators who should know better than to take over control of the Remote you’re trying to use… twice! By the way – love the image… I can almost hear David Attenborough “..and here…

Right out in the open warming itself in the summer sunshine of this lonely woodland trail, we find one of the rare white- spotted cartus shoppii.

And what’s more, this one is displaying the exotic green mating plumage, and there appears to be a member of the polus get-caught-on- overhanging-treeii that’s come along for a look as well. A rare find indeed!”]

[40m] + If you’re wondering about the log entry VK5CZ-pirate, well, I replied toa CQ ostensibly from VK5CZ, but when I greeted him by his name, lan, whom I remembered clearly from the previous week, the operator informed me his name was Steven and sent “‘l AM LEARNING ALSO OK”, then vanished.

* The genuine VK5CZ‘s keying was heard more than an hour later. +* Any ideas?. * Conditions not that great on 40 m, passed two-way traffic with the OM Manny successfully but sent only two ‘Today in History’ QTCs.

[80m] + Nothing heard or seen on 80 m. SO Oo Oe Ann

[40m] + Late again after an afternoon of house painting but heard VK6FN saying 7< to someone I didn't catch. + I tried to call Max with no answer; I guess he knocked off for dinner. + Just to try my luck I called CQ and VK6KRC popped up for a nice QSO.

* You never know what or who might come up. Wow – VK6KFC – two weeks in a row… well I never!] ¢«

[40m] + First time I’ve been on for ages, really meaning to come up on QRS and finally got there! Started off listening and heard lan, VK5CZ working VK3ADX? At around 8:05 UTC, then fired up and called CQ.

+ Was soon answered by George VK2AOE on his Hermes at 5 Watts, nice! Condx seemed ok so I decided to go QRP as well and busted out the QCX min at 5 Watts. + What – A – Blast!.

* QSOs with Stan in ZL, Jordan in VK3, David portable in QLD and a busted QSO with David, VK3RU after we QSYd due to QRM, my battery died!

+ After I got back on the air there seemed to be a lot of QRM around (YB voices in the CW portion of the band) and no 3RU, so I pulled the plug at around 11:30 UTC.

«| was also pleasantly surprised that my ability to copy seems to have improved after honing my skill with CW park activations.

• I’m in the throws of putting up something decent on 80m for the upcoming Trans-Tasman contest so I will be QRV on that band as well for QRS. Andy, VK5LA.

[40m] + plenty of weak stations, that couldn’t work.

[80m] + still little activity here in WA land. + thus – it needs some more promotion on vkéarn hint hint. +

From David VK6KD/4 at Iifracombe VK4 QLD

[40m] + Lots of activity on 40m combined with fading.

[80m] + From my vk4 remote position not much coming through last night. +

[40m] + Fairly quiet to start with but got really busy at one point and lost Max VK6EN amongst the QRM at the end of our QSO.

[80m] + Saw the WhatsApp alert from Mark VK6QI regarding him trying the VK6CRO Carnarvon remote so headed to the nominated frequency not expecting to hear much but was pleasantly surprised to hear Mark. + Thanks for the contact Mark.

[40m] * Good conditions and plenty on QRS, also heard USA calls working each other. * Our QRS members are improving each week. * Great to hear.

[40m] + Another busy evening with work and meetings so I was unable to participate in the net. + Thad a quick listen early in the evening while waiting to join my first meeting and heard a couple of ZLs coming through pretty clear despite some intermittent QRM at my end.

From Arthur VK2ASB at Wentworth Falls NSW

[40m] + My GSRV was down, the halyard broke so few people could hear me and I could only hear a few stations. + Since I am no expert at climbing trees, it might be a while before I can get back on the ai. [Bad luck Arthur!

Time to investigate a string with a weight attached to get the new rope up there? I use an arborer’s throw-line that I bought off eBay, but an 80z sinker on a 8mm nylon rope will also work. Then again – any grand-kids around, or perhaps safer, kids with drones?

Jordan VK3ACU has had great success using a drone with an add-on hook with remote release… I think I need one too!]

[40m] + It did sounded like conditions were not that good tonight. *| had a listen around the band and was nothing but noise.

[80m] + After a quick listen along the band, again, as per 40m, nothing I heard, apart from noise and some QRN. * Made a call but no one answer. « A bit disappointed.

1 hope Chris VK2NAP isn’t too down in the mouth that you forgot about the chat you had with him! Several stations heard you, so there’s no hiding Manny – HI!]

[40m] + It did sounded like conditions were not that good tonight. + Ihad a listen around the band and was nothing but noise.

[80m] + After a quick listen along the band, again, as per 40m, nothing I heard, apart from noise and some QRN. + Made a call but no one answer. * Abit disappointed. nope Chris VK2NAP isn’t too down in the mouth that you forgot about the chat you d with him!

Several stations heard you, so there’s no hiding Manny – Hil] +

[40m] +l was QRP 6 watts but not heard, so I think condition were not too good.

[40m] + I was QRP 6 watts but not heard, so I think condition were not too good..

• From me VK2K( at Beautiful South Bowning

[40m] + Again this week, the ever-popular Tecsun KiwiSDR at Araluen NSW was full when I connected at 0700Z; I tried the VK1CM KiwiSDR which is nearer to my home, but the noise level was pretty high, so I slid over to the Ironstone Ridge KiwiSDR of Paul VK5PH.

+ It was good to hear Andy VK5LA on again from Berti chatting to George VK2AOE up Kogarah. + also heard Brian VK2EBN up at Newcastle who I hadn’t heard for a while.

+ So after re-tuning my Tee-coupler and my phasing noise canceller for 40m, I pressed my trusty old Kenwood TS-1208 into service (actually, it’s the only transceiver working here at the moment).

+ I received Brian’s RST / RSN report and sent my own to him, but we were then hammered with a pile of QRM; my TS-120S only has a 3KHZ filter and our net has become so popular,that I was hearing everything from DC to daylight – all piled-in on top of Brian…

So I didn’t get a QSL back from him. +I then heard a QRL? call and replied with one or more Rs (in hindsight I probably should have sent QRL or QRX). I then heard what I thought was Brian sending Q2 Q2 or similar – probably indicating that he’d lost me as well.

+ However, I then heard UP2 UP2 – and figured that was Brian telling me to QSY up; however when I did, I was being called by Stan ZL3TK from Waitarere Beach on the new frequency.

* But I still hadn’t received the QSL from Brian – difficult to sort out with CW… So I QSYed back down to try to find him. + We all ended up losing each-other in the QRM… what fun!

The next day during our Post Morseum, it was clear that what Stan heard from his end was a quiet frequency that he called QRL? on, but then heard my callsign – which he took to mean I was calling him.

+ Stan then sent UP2 UP2 and proceeded to call me on the higher frequency before being drowned in the QRM. + Just goes to show how, despite the best of intentions, things can easily go pear-shaped when trying to communicate with our beloved Code.

+ Still fun though!. +l went on to listen to Colin VK2JCC at Pennant Hills working George VK2AOE at Kogarah; it was good to hear Colin having a go after being away from the art for three years.

+ also listened to Richard VK6HRC working me VK6QI before I disappeared for nose bags. + When I returned I was pleased to hear Richard VK6PZT at Dalyellup working our intrepid explorer, David VK6KD/4.

+ I was then lucky to hook up with David who was making huge progress on his around-Australia grey nomad expedition. David was at Ilfracombe, just East

Of Longreach – right in the centre of Queensland… or if you believe what they tell you a Blackall, 150KM North West of the Black Stump (noting that we’ve come across a number of places around Australia that claim ownership of said burned tree remnant).

• Also from me VK6QI at via the VK6CRO remote HF station at Carnarvon

[40m] + First-up on the VK6QS KiwiSDR near Brookton I heard Stan ZL3TK at Waitarere Beach and Richard VK6HRC from Padbury. + also heard lan VK5CZ from Clare chatting to VKSHK then Mick ZL1HJ at Te Kult.

+ I cranked up the VK6SR Remote at Bedfordale and started fiddling, changing frequency, tuning up etc… then saw a little cry from Ross MONNK in the Chat box…

For the second time in about a month, I’d jumped on the Remote and hadn’t noticed that both Ross and Mike DL3YZ were connected to the Remote already! Aargh!

I’ve been using this thing for years, and I’ve had several occasions when others did the same thing when I was using it… but now I’d done it to Ross and Mike twice in a month! I think I need a period in the Southern Electronics Group sin-bin!

What I can’t work out is why the really annoying “May I tune the remote” window that comes up when I’m transmitting and someone else logs in (yet the side-tone keeps going so it’s east to not know that you’re no-longer transmitting), didn’t come up and stop me from doing things that I shouldn’t have!

Oh well…. + Most humble apologies Ross and Mike. + By way of apology to Ross and Mike, I sent an SMS to Rob VK6LD who runs the Remote and asked him to do a RemoteHams software re-boot because the audio that Ross and Mike were listening to was really poor; Rob did that when he got home, hopefully making things a bit nicer for our distant friends.

+ Having retreated to the bin, I listened to Ron VK6KHZ calling and Georg VK2DLF at St Marys chatting to Drew VK3ZU, and Ross chatting to Richard VK6HRC, while lan VK5CZ was working Merv VK3ADX at Ballarat.

+ Meanwhile I zipped up to the other Southern Electronics Group Remote (VK6CRO) at Carnarvon. +I couldn’t get the Remote to respond to my key – and while I fiddled around with port settings etc, I had some sort of exchange with Ross on the other Remote, using the keyboard CW generation function (that probably only barely qualifies as a CW QSO, but it was better than nothing); it was great to hear good signals from Carnarvon down in Perth.

According to Ross the next day on our Post Morseum voice callback, somewhere along the line I sent an apostrophe, semi-colon or some other character that had Ross scratching his head… who knows what character I’d typed in!

+ Ilistened to Peter VK6IS at Wundowie chatting to Richard VK6HRC before sorting out the key-interface and having a chat with Richard myself.

+ heard Richard then go on to chat to Max VK6EN at Manjimup, and Peter hook up with the other Richard VK6PZT at Dalyellup.

+ I heard Richard working David VK6KD/4 as mentioned in the VK2KI report, and then I was pleased to hear the return of Chris VK2NAP at Marrickville chatting to Manny VK3DRQ at Blackburn.

[80m] + When I slid down to 80m, I listened to the two Richards VK6PZT at Dalyellup and VK6HRC at Padbury just finishing up.

• | threatened them with a three-way QSO (which can actually get tricky for us apprentice CW operators), but instead had a normal chat with VK6HR( three-way for another time – HI!

From Colin VK2JCC at Pennant Hills: I had a shaky CW contact with VKsAOE with QSB. George was how I found out about this friendly CW net. My head was very busy by the time we have had a few overs and I just wanted to sign-off to take a break.

I’m enjoying the slow Morse opportunity, returning after a long break of 3 years. Determined to keep going and become proficient. Anyone can pick up a mic… not everyone can do CW.

73 Colin Aka Professor Portable Post Morseum Report from Richard VK6HRC Hello Mark, Another lively net on Wednesday on the VK6RLM repeater and the West Australian AllStar/ Echolink network.

Called in: ZL8TK Stan VK6KHZ Ron M@NNK_ Ross (who staying up until midnight to call in) VK6QL Mark KASBMS Hank VK6KD/4 David VK6EN Max (who was unable to make himself heard – having network problems) our shortwave listeners and myself.

The net went very well and we even ran out of time as we try to clear the network for the follow-on group of regulars. So no time for general chit chat or Apré Ski as Stan calls it, maybe next week?

There was a lot of information passed-on about message handling from Stan and another topic from our friendly group was punctuation; great to get feedback. Hank also gave us a list of letters as part of a practise drill, very handy for people just starting out.

No doubt we will be getting a lot more from our members in the future Ragchew newsletters. Thank you Richard VKeHRC © [Thanks Richard – another good session with lots discussed; sorry it took me so long to report in properly, using Echolink from the car as we headed toward Canberra for mart

EYP SEMEL PAUL 16JUL24 NW AMESSAGE FOR YOU, PSE REPEAT BACK OK? BK QTC TODAY IN HISTORY QSL? DE ZL3TK KN 1. USA TESTED FIRST ATOMIC BOMB NEAR ALAMOGORDO NEW MEXICO TODAY 1945, THEN IN AUGUST DROPPED BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. Sent to: VK3ADX 2.

THE BRUTAL RULE OF IRAQ BY SUDDAM HUSSEIN DURING WHICH HE TERRORIZED THE IRAQI PEOPLE BEGAN TODAY 1979 AND LASTED 24 YEARS.

Sent to: VK2NAP– Despite QSB and QRM, both chaps who responded returned alll numbers correctly and due to context, the message was easily readable with better than 90 % accuracy.

President WA VHF Group Inc Hello all. Have a look at this URL _https://ars-qrp.com/ which describes a friendly contest held in North America on HF. Quite similar to SOTA / WWFF but without specific location registrations.

It is QRP and they use CW which might not get as many starters here as something similar using other digital modes. Or, can we take a leaf out of Mark’s VK2KI / VK6QI book and begin a journey into CW?

I know that he is not the only proponent of CW and that some other clubs, notably HARG have / had a CW practice beacon running. NCRG also has a strong CW contingent.

(Maybe this old dog can learn a new trick!) Anyway, the idea is to include portable stations and home stations with a scoring system that is biased towards the portable stations.

You will read that the portable stations (running QRP CW) call themselves “bumblebees” I guess because of the small “size” and buzzing sound of CW.

‘So who wants to take the idea and morph it into something that we here in V6 can use to encourage more activity on air? 73 Denis VK6AKR [Terrific initiative from Denis the President of the WA VHF Group Inc…

Especially considering back in the dim dark days the VHF Group was formed when the local WIA Division wouldn’t recognise Z-calls (Ie people with full license qualifications, minus the CW proficiency)!

We might need to ask our resident historian Will VK6UU for more about that. I reckon we could provide some good support for this initiative Denis – would you believe that there’s 52 WA CQQRS team members….

So you might be surprised how popular the proposal is. WA certainly needs more portable CW ops – it’s unusual to see parksnpeaks.org CW Spots from people in the West – especially compared to what happens over this side. Standing by for more Denis.]

Hello all

| thought your readers might like to know a bit about the photo of my shack you’ve used in the newsletter.

The first one (from left to right) with the long arm is my favourite. Itis a “AMPLIDAN” as used with a Sailor HF radio fit-out on one of the oil rigs I was on.

The powers that be decided to rip the whole station out while I was on leave – result was a wonderful fully operational Sailor HF console which contained the main TX, emergency TX, main RX & emergency RX, power supplies, antenna patch and switching – all was ripped out of the radio-room and sent ashore to be dumped in a skip bin!

Heart breaking. When I got back it was too late to salvage anything but they had left the Morse key. All we used after that were GMDSS, VHF equipment and aeronautical gear plus satellite coms.

Next key is aa Vibroplex bug, a standard NATO-issue key, then a Vibroplex side- swiper. The radios are, again L to R – Icom-2KL linear with the com AT500 tuner above it, Icom 730 with a TenTec tuner above it, then my Yaesu FT879D, Icom power supply and the Yaesu power supply.

Great report to read every week – I don’t know how you manage it!! Thanks. And Yes, I will be at the Point Moore lighthouse again for the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend in August… all registered and on the list.

78 &77 (=CW for ever) Roy [Thanks very much Roy – how many tragedies have happened because stuff was thrown in a skip! Great that you’ll be on the ILLW again on August 17 & 18; I’m hoping that the Peel Amateur Radio Group in Mandurah will find some CW ops to add

Interest to its activation of Woodman Point lighthouse… if not we may be doing a whip-around to find that group a local CW op or twol!]

Update from Garry VK2GA:

Hi there Mark VK2KL, Unfortunately circumstances have arisen which means I will not be around on the net for some time. Blease keep me informed of what is happening on the Tuesday Net. You are doing a fantastic job keeping the art of Morse Code alive and well.

Very best regards, Garry VK2GAZ [Thanks for the heads-up Garry; thoughts are with you on behalf of the team mate.]

I trust you enjoy this event and that you send some comments on what you heard or who you worked to Mark for the next RagChew: cqqrsnet@gmail.com

Best regards, Garry VK2GAZ/VK2ZP #5460C Manager – SKCC Oceaniz

Best regards, Garry VK2GAZ/VK2ZP #5460C Manager – SKCC Oceania QRS Saunter

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

By Stan ZL3TK The OM Ross MONNK raises a good point about reciprocal callsign use in his recent article for Ragchew. Let’s go back to the basics: 1.

Amateur radio callsigns are issued by any given jurisdiction’s licensing authority for the sole purpose of identifying radio transmissions. 2.

Call signs are succinct, consisting only of a country prefix, a number often to indicate a region within that jurisdiction, and finally a unique suffix to identify the individual station. The suffix may also indicate an operator’s license grade.

Problems arise with this simple system only when individuals to whom call signs have been issued choose to modify them. Whether through ignorance or some personal motive, there are a number of ways in which we hear these illegal modifications.

Arguably the most common violation of callsign regulations is by the appending of a suffix, eg /M, /MM, /P, /QRP or /QRS. Has a callsign ever been issued with such a suffix? No. All such suffixes are illegally appended to indicate a MODE of operation.

Has authority ever been delegated to individual operators by any jurisdiction to modify their legal callsign? Again,no. Let’s discover what these post-modification callsigns actually indicate.

Under international reciprocal licensing agreements, /P appended to a VK callsign must mean that the holder of that callsign is either from or in another country, such as the Netherlands, Korea of even PapuaNew Guinea, or any of six other /P options.

How about /M? Well, the operator is obviously visiting from or transmitting in the UK or Northern Ireland. Since there are no country prefixes beginning with Q, one is left wondering what could possibly be their home country.

The place for discussing one’s mode and/or operational status is after contact has been established. Such information has no place in a callsign. Ergo, all such appendages to callsigns are not only ill-advised, but illegal.

There is an exception to the callsign rules which comes into play when one is operating within their home country but outside the specific region for which the license was issued, though even this will no longer apply in Australia before long; eg a VK2 traveling in VK5 may often illegally append /5 to his callsign.

That /5 mean she is operating from any one of 15 possible jurisdictions around the world which have a country prefix beginning with 5, but which one?

Whereas if the operator had appended /VKS it would be deemed legal because he has made it clear that she is still within the ‘Lucky Country’.

Now let’s examine Ross’s belief that he should append VK to his callsign when he is working through an Australian repeater via Echolink, while physically located in and ‘transmitting’ from the UK. Can Ross be in two places at once? Non, c’est impossible!

Therefore adding a VK prefix or suffix while not actually on the Australian continent would misrepresent his location, and that applies to everyone who uses Echolink; eg ZLs do not prepend their callsigns with W, K or AC or another of the many variants now common in the US, when working into the United States via Echolink, because their ‘transmissions’ do not originate in America.

It’s a different matter when one uses a remote HF station in Australia, as the OM Ross does. Then one is obliged to ID the RF transmission as originating from Australia, logically he is Ding correctly with the prefix VK/ in that circumstance.

Why believe any of these assertions? Frankly, ones houldn’t accept anyone’s opinion at face value, no matter how well intended it may be.

Instead one should get the real oll by consulting the experts, the licensing authority, to find out exact callsign compliance requirements… only then will you know whether it’s worth starting an argument on the subject.

You may find that through the introduction of the New Zealand General User Radio Licenses in numerous categories (GURL), standards have been allowed to fall so low that personal operator responsibility has been pretty-much voided and authorities really don’t care any more.

Take on-air swearing as a prime example. This may not be a popular notion, but it’s actually been left up to us, those on the air, to police and maintain a high standard of compliance and behaviour within amateur radio.

[Well – Stan’s opened another can of worms to get us thinking! I’d be interested in hearing others’ thoughts / knowledge on this topic cgarsnet@gmail.com ] Ifyou have something you’d like to share with others related (even vaguely) to CW operation, please let me know so we can share more thoughts and ideas; email ie aie eee

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:

Three aspects of a receiver are sensitivity, selectivity and stability. What does each term mean? Four 10 ohm resistors are connected in series.

The total resistance is * 2.5 Ohms * 40HMS * 10 Ohms + 40 Ohms Tropospheric ducting may * cause high frequency signals to fade suddenly * allow long distance VHF communications * occur as a result of meteor showers or auroral activity * occur more frequently at HF than at VHF Answers next week.

Answers from last week’s Quiz:

What is a detector and a discriminator? Answer:A detector is used to remove information from an AM signal and a discriminator is used to remove the information from an FM signal.

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 Answer:0.2 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 Answer: allow for easy matching to a 50 ohm transmission line 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.

We’ll have fun. Reports Please let me know via our Reports form bit.ly/CQQRSNET who you work or hear on Tuesday’s net.

Post Mortem

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 24 contributors: DL3YZ, VK/MONNK, VK2AOE, VK2ASB, VK2DLF, VK2GAZ, VK3ACU, VK3BAP, VK3DRQ, VK3JFP, VK5CZ, VK5LA, VK6AKR, VK6HRC, VK6IS, VK6KD/4, VK6KHZ, VK6PZT, VK6RR, VK6WE, VK7KPC, ZL1PB, ZL2GD, ZL3TK 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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