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2025 13 CQ QRS RagChew

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Great fun on Tuesday night again – lots of people on having such a good time! The reports indicate that we had 60 stations on this week – woo hoo! Thanks to everyone who had a go…. and especially those who took the time to report via our simple webform.

And this week there seemed to be a good number of our ZL team mates back on air again – excellent! No doubt also that there were also lots of people listening-in and getting some good copying practice.

Doesn’t matter whethe you’re a seasoned keyer or brand new at it – there was something for everyone on the CQQRS Practice QSO net.

And once again, I could hear the smiles on the faces of our team as they chatted with our gentle art of slow CW – satisfied at forming good sounding characters, or satisfied at receiving and decoding the intent, if not every single word sent by the others.

And… this week, not only were there Kiwis on, but 80m was popular as well. How good is this?

Thank you this week to Ross MONNK who has spent the last month or so of the UK Winter researching how to create your own QRZ.com webpage – the last article in the series is below. Thanks mate – your efforts are really appreciated on the top side of the globe.

New Team Member.

Welcome this week to Mal VK8MT at Casuarina Beach, Darwin. Mal was one of the founders of the fantastic Western Australian AllStar network, and having CW on his to-do list, has joined our team.

Mal heard about our group on the AllStar network – probably the Wednesday morning Post Morsum vcallbacks hosted by Richard VK6HRC.

I’m excited to have our first Northern Territorian join the team – in particular because I’m interested to watch how propagation goes from the tropics over the course of the year.

Tropical locations have unique seasonal ionospheric propagation characteristics, which will be interesting to experience on our net. But that’s down stream – for the moment, Mal’s still on the so-called learning curve. Welcome mate.

Masthead Image

Thanks this week to Mark VK2DI/mm for the nice shot of his new Elecraft KH1 enjoying its first day on Sydney Harbour last Thursday.

I was out portable at Mount Mundoonan with my plastic box (tr)uSDX and 7.6m Rybakov-style Inverted-L antenna but the signal from Mark’s 6m radiator on the squid pole just wasn’t strong enough to copy; luckily Mark did get the Elecraft’s feet wet with a QSO with Gerard VK2I0/P, who as it turned out, was also on the same SOTA mountain as I had been an hour earlier!

Reports

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

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

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 bott 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 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:

[80m] * Kept jumping down to 80m, but not a sausage!. [Must have listened on 80m at just the wrong times Nic.]

[40m] «| thought the bands may have been pretty quiet because of the nice sunny day before and people are having fun outside. However, I was able to snag 2 contacts on 40 and later a quick check on 80 brought Jordan VK3ACU into my receiver.

I had a great chat with him. His impeccable keying and with the help of my keyboard keyer, QSO was a breeze. Thanks Bob, Kevin, and Jordan. CU agn on the air..

[80m] * 80m band condition was really good; constant but low noise. I haven’t been in this band often and realise that sometimes this band is exceptional for QSO like tonight. Try it guys..

[80m] * Hit the road with the KH-1 after topping off the battery. That thing’s notorious for switching itself on in the bag, but a quick 3D-printed cover from Thingiverse will sort that right out. Had a great ragchew with Ketut, great CW.

Also had a QSO with Paul, who was running a Valiant and a Hallicrafters receiver — rigs that glow are always a good time! Hope my text makes sense, I’m falling asleep typing this hihi..

[40m] * As conditions seemed good, I enjoyed listening across the band to lots of different QSOs. The CQ QRS Net has created the friendliest spot on the spectrum for new CW operators! [Get’s my vote Stephen! Thanks for saying g’day again mate.]

VKS3ECH, good copy and great signal. Then! was called by Mait, VKSAO with an even bigger signal but there was a weird multipath distortion happening making copy quite difficult, along with SSB QRM from our northern fisher- friends.

From John VK5ET at Hope Valley SA. + G’day ALL, had to postpone portable operations this Tuesday due to our mate Murphy chucking a spanner in the works. + Never mind, as they say ” there’s always next time “..

+ Hopefully next week is looking promising for portable operations . . . one can only hope ..

[40m] + Tuned in late after returning from a meeting , then onto 40 mts, 4 stations heard but no contacts. Fair bit of QSB about.

[80m] + Tried 80 mts, made contact with VK4PN, VK3DRQ, VK2KI.. + Good to hear & work few stations tonight. QSB was making reception a bit difficult but received good signal rpts from stations I contacted.

By the sound of things, both myself & OM Manny were late starters tonight. We both had good excuses … &). * Great News letter , Mark, plenty of interesting articles etc…. * 73’s , VKSET, John

[40m] * Due to a faulty CW key cable I had dropped my pwr to 5w while fault finding. When I responded to VK3DRQ I was still on 5w. Great QSO. Noise floor was at zero during QSO. Magic! 73.

[80m] * Interesting to observe my noise floor on 80m was s8 when on 40m it had come up from sO to s3. Noise seems to follow me but I am using vertical antennas..

[40m] + Joined after a POTA/WWFF activation. Good to hear Skip VK2AL joining the group.

[40m] + I was doing SWL using the Ironstone SDR. Its a great practice for me. I heard great CW, and even some real ragchews, great work. My respect to all stations. Hope I can manage to be on the air again soon, spring WX here is really lovely here. 73 Mike..

From your editor Mark VK6QI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW via the VK6QS (Brookton) and VK6SEG (Northam) KiwiSDR receivers.

[40m] + This week, I was doing a signal comparison between the VK6QS KiwiSDR near Brookton and the VK6SEG KiwiSDR at Hoddy Well near Northam.

The Brookton ‘SDR uses a very large horizontal loop around the paddock trees (Ie horizontally polarised), whereas the Northam SDR was now sporting a 30m long wire sloping down from 22m, fed via a choking UNUN (probably mostly vertically polarised)..

+l was watching the two SDRs’ waterfall displays and S-meters on two computers side by side – so I could sort out the QSB (because the two receivers were far apart (about 60KM), the peaks and troughs were not in sync)…

+ At the start of the net at 0700Z, my 40m signal was S1 on the Northam SDR, with a noise level of SO, but with an S2 noise level at Brookton, there was no sign of my signal. The same result with the signal from Gerard VK2IO/P near Halls Gap Victoria.

When I worked Mark VK2DI/ at Bottle and Glass Point on Sydney Harbour, he was also RSN 410 into Northam and 002 at Brookton.. + As the band started opening over the next hour or two and signals became stronger, things started changing.

David VK3DBD at Yakandandah was RSN 562 into Brookton and 632 into Northam. Similarly, my signal was RSN 542 to Brookton and 530 to Northam and James VK7JZ in Hobart was RSN 562 at Brookton and RSN 530 at Northam.

+1 took a break for dinner but when I came back, I remembered too late that the Southern Electronics Group KiwiSDR had a 180 minutes per 24-hour time- out (to stop four stations from hogging all four channels continuously); the SDR wouldn’t let me back in to continue the comparison testing – which was a pity, because I was keen to see how the two compared on 80m; next week!.

+ So in summary, on 40m, the Northam SDR was picking up weak Eastern States signals as the band was opening up, better than the Brookton SDR which had

An S2 noise level. However, once the band was open, signals into the Brookton SDR were one to two S- points stronger. The transmitting stations in the East were using both vertical, horizontal and mixed polarisation antennas, but of course, the received polarisation would have been changing as the signals were refracted through the ionosphere..

[80m] + There was a good number of stations heard on 80m this week; I started listening at around 1045Z and the band was open nicely to the East.

My own signal from Beautiful South Bowning was S9 into the VK6QS KiwiSDR near Brookton, and David VK6KD/P with a 5m whip on the car at Burra SA was S7… + Great to hear so many on 80m again.. Also from your editor Mark VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW

[40m] + I was able to get on right at the start of the net tonight and had a quick SOTA exchange with Gerard VK2IO/P near Halls Creek in Victoria.

Like others (including lan VK5CZ and others of our team), Gerard had been at the 7th annual SOTA gathering at Mount Hotham; we missed each other by probably an hour activating Mount Mundoonan near Yass NSW last week on his way to Victoria.

+ I was pleased to chat to Mark VK2DI/P at the interestingly named Bottle and Glass Point on Sydney Harbour using his Elecraft KH1 before the sun set there, and we ended up having a three-way QSO with Mark’s friend Skip VK2ALR.

It was also good to have another ambling QSO with James VK7JZ in Hobart who was putting a nice RSN 571 signal.. + Couple more QSOs after dinner – Daniel VK3EST at Pakenham and Peter VK3WOW at Blackburn – before heading down to 80m…

[80m] + This week Richard VK6HRC at Padbury and I tried again to have another QSO, but the 80m gods weren’t smiling again this week; just scratching through here RSN 211 with the occasional letters.

Kevin VK3KEV at Seymour was coming through nicely at RSN 572, as was David VK6KD/5 at Burra. On 80m my receive frequency was wandering about quite noticeably – although I didn’t notice any change on the transmit frequency via the KiwiSDR in WA; so I’ll be interested to get reports about that.

My nearly 50 year old Trio TS-120S has always had VFO drift ( stil have the replacement VFO capacitors provided by the Australian distributor many many years ago), but this was a new sudden change of frequency.

+ After David, I hooked up with John VKSET expecting to hear of his camping adventures with Jipsi – but sadly, that was not to be! He was still at home.

I rounded out the evening with QSOs with Peter VK6IS at Wundowie and Greg VKSKFG at Willunga before I busied myself with a late-night effort to find the replacement transistors for the TX-RX board on my Kenwood TS-50, which had been waiting patiently in the sick bay for nearly a year; the varying receive frequency on my TS-120S prompted me to figure that I might need to do a repair on one or other transceiver before too long; the things you do at 1am in the morning}.

Find the replacement transistors for the TX-RX board on my Kenwood TS-50, which had been waiting patiently in the sick bay for nearly a year; the varying receive frequency on my TS- 120S prompted me to figure that I might need to do a repair on one or other transceiver before too long; the things you do at 1am in the morning!.

[40m] * Good number of stations on the air.

[40m] + Plenty from both VK6 and over east, but I was too busy trying to complete the installation of my new rig, an IC-7760, to participate in the fun on 40m. By the time I had finished, there were only a couple of stations on 40m.

Condx seemed good, even on my broken open wire fed 80m flat top delta loop and a pretty quiet band on this side of the country.

[80m] + Like 40m, propagation to the eastern states was good. Due to my compromised antenna, I was only able to run 50W..

• ven on my broken open wire fed 80m flat top delta loop and a pretty quiet band on this side of the country.

[80m] + Like 40m, propagation to the eastern states was good. Due to my compromised antenna, I was only able to run 50W..

[40m] * Had little time. First visitors came and then a phone call from the youngest harmonic; so I did finally get started almost at 1030Z. Signals were OK, but not many stations that I heard. I only managed to have five QSOs 4 on 40m and 1 on 80m.

[40m] +The 40m band is still very quiet, untill late in the afternoon, with only local signals are being heard.

[80m] + if you are on-air on an regular basis, then you can actually get lots of contacts. + However, if you only get on-air, on an occasional basis, then there is less signals, to be heard + So it’s not like the bands used to be, with signals galore, at least, at this particular location.

From Mark VK6QI On Wednesday morning’s Post Morsum AllStar network call-back from the Tuesday net, our ring-master Richard VK6HRC was notably absent.

Unfortunately, the VK6RLM repeater in Perth wasn’t connected to the network via it’s usual link to the VK6ZGN node… so the Perth stations that use the 146.750 MHz repeater (including Richard) heard nothing of the goings-on.

Stations on Wednesday morning: + David VK6KD/5 at Burra SA + Max VK6FN at Manjimup + Wayne VK6NW at Bridgetown * Mark VK6QI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW David was in the car while his lady Pauline waited upon him hand and foot (actually, brought him a take-away coffee and bickie) – missing out on the opportunity afforded by country towns – sitting on a bench seat chatting to locals.

Anyway, when not setting up the date for a date with Max and/or Wayne, David reported that he eventually had some fun with his 5m telescopic whip on both 40m and 80m on Tuesday evening.

Post Morsum Report

Initially he discovered that his paddle only wanted to send dahs – the dits had gone West. Eventually he and his key came to a working arrangement and he was able to have a nice QSO with Manny VK3DRQ on 40m, two more on 80m and heard another four on the lower band.

Max had spent the day removing fallen Karri tree branches from his fence-line – and despite putting up a temporary 40m antenna, he was understandably too pooped to get on ait.

Max also submitted a note from his mother advising that he was heading to Bunbury next week, for the last bit of the cataract work, so he’ll be marked as absent in the roll next week.

Wayne had four quick QSOs on 40m (including one with lan VK7TA that he was particularly pleased about) before heading off to the SES training night. He tried on 80m when he got home but figured that everyone had gone to bed at that time.

Wayne also commented that things were looking up for Max next week, but that he too had a note for the teacher because he was doing a train the trainer course on communications with the SES.

I noted the interesting potential overlap between that training and what the Peel Amateur Radio Group was doing in support of coms with the SES at Mandurah.

There being no further business, I declared the get-together closed, and we all headed off in our own particular directions.

Update from Richard VK6HRC

Gremlins on Wednesday morning again! I was watching the AllStar dashboard hoping that it would do a reset and all would be good for the Post Morsum.

Not to be, late last week I was checking to see if there were any other repeaters accessible from home but not successful there. If I was up at my portable location in Gidgegannup, VK6RAV and VK6REC are great bu it’s fairly warm up that way just now!

Anyway, I could follow some of the action listening on VK6REC, so I knew you had everything under control. I have been researching other options eg setting up an AllStar node here etc.

Fists Down Under QSO Party

On other matters the Friday Fists down Under QSO party saw a lot more stations on due to better propagation and it was great to hear some good

Code from the master bug operators as well. Last one of the series is this coming Friday; see https://www.fdu.org.au/events/ for details. Cheers Richard.

This Week’s Topic of Interest

QRZ.com Page Creation – Part 5 How to Build Your Own QRZ.com Webpage By Ross MONNK

Create Your Page – Insert Images

In edition 9/2025, Ross MONNK discussed why CW operators in particular might want to have or update your own QRZ.com webpage. In editions 10, 11 and 12/2025 Ross discussed callsign validation, account preferences and creating text.

This week, Ross covers what most people enjoy most about others’ QRZ.com pages – the images.

They say, “A picture speaks a thousand words”. So let’s use three photos to make your page really POP! This final flourish is going to happen in three stages: * Take your photos * Upload them to QRS.com * Insert them into your page TAKE YOUR PHOTOS The three photos that other operators will find most interesting are: * Your shack.

It doesn’t matter if it looks like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise or is just the kitchen table – this is where you do what they do. * Your radio.

Yes, I know they already know what an ICOM or a Yaesu looks like but this is your pride-and-joy so show it off. * Your Morse key. This is how you connect to your hardware and the radio waves. It’s an intimate connection and it’s where the magic happens.

Your key has defo got to go in. Having taken your photos, you need to get them onto your computer – I can’t help you with that, I’m afraid. And preferrably you’d re-size them to about 1 MB – I can’t help you with that either (I use Microsoft’s “Paint” app).

UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO QRZ.COM * Login to QRS.com * Choose “Edit…” your page * Choose “Add or edit your pictures…”

• Under “Add an image”, click on “Choose File”

“ Navigate to your image and click the blue “Upload Now” button. An image thumbnail will appear in your “Image collection” gallery. If you forgot to re-size the image earlier (or couldn’t do it), it will have been re-sized for you during the upload.

“Do the same for your other photos. “When you’ve done that for all your photos, click the green “Done” button. INSERT THE PHOTOS INTO YOUR

PAGE * Click on “Add or edit your biography…” * Click on the position in the page where you want to put your photo. * Click on the “Image” button (a little picture frame)

Info” tab, click on “Browse Server”. “Your image gallery appears. Double- click on the image you want. “To the left of the image preview pane, check that the little padlock is closed (if not, click on it) then set the height and width to be about 800 x 600 (you only adjust one of these values)

“Click “OK” and your photo will appear on your page. If you don’t like it there, right click on it and select “cut”. * Do the same for the other photos.

NOW CLICK “SAVE”

So. Congratulations’

Conclusion

As I said in edition 9/2025, our hobby is essentially one of isolated individuals reaching out to other isolated individuals.

On the CW QRS Net, we’re even more isolated by the limited information we’re able to exchange, and yet we enjoy the hobby exactly because of those distant and tenuous contacts. Having had a contact, we naturally speculate about the other operator – how old is.

He or she; how long has she been in the hobby; how did they learn Morse code; does he have other keys; what is her shack like; do they have other interests both inside and outside the hobby?

QRZ.com allows us to read a bit more about them and perhaps, feel a bit less isolated… in fact, when I read others’ QRZ.com pages, I feel part of a world-wide brotherhood of like-minded souls.

And what’s more, I sometimes use the QRZ.com page to find an email address for someone I’ve contacted, or read about, and follow up with an email.

In taking that time and putting in that effort to create an interesting QRZ.com page, you will be doing your fellow enthusiasts a service and adding to the hobby considerably – giving back to the hobby is always something you can be proud of. [Wow!

Thank you for making time to write this series of articles for us Ross. I particularly liked the aspect of using the web page to add flourish to our necessarily stark CW exchanges.

I’ve already used your information to make changes to my QRZ.com pages, and I reckon others will be inspired to create a page or go back and have another look at their existing pages.

Now if anyone needs a hand to get photos from their phone onto their computer for upload to their QRZ.com page… or for the RagChew newsletter, please let me know cqgarsnet@gmail.com}

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

Richard VAGHRC’s Ham Clock – Using a Raspberry Pi Zero

Richard VK6HRC reports that he now has HamClock running on a Raspberry Pi Zero – a tiny 60MM x 30MM and consuming only 2 Watts!

Jordan VK3ACU’s version – right up there with Nic’s QSL card from the looks of things! —->

Here’s Richard’s collection of Raspberry Pis. On the top left a DMR node in a case and to the right one without a case showing the DMR board attached to the Pi. Bottom left an eraser for reference and bottom right Pi Zero Hamclock node

Underground Gremlins

From Roy VK6RR up at Geraldton Hi Mark. I am currently busy refurbishing the base of my small back yard mast – you can see the problem in the photo! Mother nature has decided to eat the bottom of the support over 11 years!

Now having to lengthen the wiring that is the garden reticulation, these run through where the base had to be placed. I didn’t lengthen them when i put the mast in – so now it had to be done as they are in the way.

2 new supports and a base plate will be fitted, the base being dynabolted to the existing concrete and then more concrete put on top. So haven’t had much time to enjoy cw! 73 Roy. VK6RR

QRZ?

Key to the success of our net is helping to make it a get-together that people enjoy returning to each week. I know pubs aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s a bit like a local country pub – it’s just so nice to go an have a yarn with your mates, or to say g’day to someone new who wanders in the side door.

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?

Most people are reluctant to write about themselves; amateurs particularly. Why would anyone be interested, and after all, it’s not just about me! However, you may surprise yourself. 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: cagrsnet@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?

Other News

From our new team member – Mal VK8MT

Thanks for your welcome. I live in a flat one street back from the ocean, north facing. So, not that great for the rest of VK. But! travel down to the central desert and have portable gear with me, so that may be my best option.

Ihave found the following web resources helpful: – CW Academy Morse Code Trainer Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy Virtual CW Band Vail CW repeater The Vail CW internet repeater is impressive and can have as many channels as you like.

For example, anyone who connects to the following link (VK-CQQRS) would hear anyone else who is connected to the same link. https://vail.woozle.org/#VK-CQQRS I built a simple interface that connects my paddle (and/or key) to the PC.

At the moment this is probably my best option for practicing. Anyway, I will attempt to surprise you one of these days. Even if it is from a remote rig. Cheers for now Mal

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.

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.

Summits On The Air and National / State Parks Activation:

SOTA and Parks activities are good practice. The exchanges are very short – callsigns, RSTs and optionally names. Some QRS some not, but a good opportunity to listen or have a go.

This is how I got going a few years ago after declaring to never use CW again after passing the AOCP.

Keep a Look Out…

Simon MOKBg is driving around France and Italy for the next week or two – keep ar eye on our CQQRS WhatsApp Alerts.

Lost?

Can’t find the times and frequencies of our net? Where is the link to our webform to submit the weekly net report? What was the guidance about jumping on others’ frequency during the net?

What were those Landing Zone frequencies to listen on outside of the net? Where was that basic CW exchange information? Our website is the place to find what you need: https://sites.google.com/view/cqars/home/net-details

I Hear Tell…

| hear tell that Peter VK7KPC and Kay are making good progress moving out of their Evandale home – heading for the South Coast of SA. I wonder if Peter agrees how nice the place looks without all those antennas cluttering up the place? Heh heh!

Mark VK2DI has certainly been putting his new Elecraft KH1 to good use – on Tuesday he worked 25 stations in nine countries! No wonder his battery was going flat!

Inspired by Max VK6FN’s decision to disassemble one of his shacks like a completed jigsaw puzzle, another of our team was heard having trouble with his IC- 7300 randomly deciding to shut down… and attacked the rats nest of cables behind the shack bench.

At least it’ll make him feel better I guess.

| hear tell that Lewis VK6OI has not only found his old CW key… but has even plugged it in! What could possibly go wrong?

| also hear tell that one of the group has taken delivery of an Icom IC-7760! Wow – I wonder which lucky team member has scored that one…. not jealous at all – pah! I’m hoping we’ll get a report from said very lucky member soon.

I’m also hoping that he doesn’t like it and decides to donate it to me! Did I tell you that a. I’d really like one of those, and b. that I was a bit of an optimist?

| hear tell that a number of our team members have ventured onto 20, 15 and 10m and enjoyed some remarkable QSOs into Europe recently.

Perhaps some of our UK / Europe bureau team members will consider heading out for some short-path or long-path fun and letting us know what frequency they’re on via our WhatsApp Alerts?

Long Path – 1/4 Wave ground-planes, 25 Watts.

Short Path – 1/4 Wave ground-planes, 25 Watts.

[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-dit

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.

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.

Post Morsum

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 37 contributors to this week’s RagChew newsletter: G4RWI, DL3YZ, MOKBJ, MONNK, Ms Elizabeth, VK2DI, VK2DLF, VK2RH, VK2TIG, VK2WP, VK3ACU, VK3AFH, VK3BWN, VK3ECH, VK3KEV, VK3WOW, VK5AO, VK5ET, VK5ET, VKSKFG, VK5LA, VK6FN, VK6GX, VK6HRC, VKEIS, VK6KD/5, VK6KHZ, VK6NW, VK6IO, VK6RR, VK6WE, VK7JZ, VK7KPC, VK7TA, VK7WW, VK8MT and ZL3TK.

Thank you one and all; what a great team! GU CW on Tuesday, mb Mark Bosma VK2KI / VK6QI Beautiful South Bowning NSW mark.bosma@icloud.com non impediti ratione cogitationis

At Seven in the morning, an idea came to mind, something nice would be good, a problem, what kind? By Nine it had seemed, that baking would satisfy, but a pie? A cake? A tart? Or… good bye?

On the stroke of Eleven, flour and milk and eggs go in, with dried fruit and nuts, the mixing could begin. After kneading and rising and shaping and waiting… A tray in the oven. Ahhhh, the smell of baking.

The timer goes off and the tray is withdrawn, my hot poofs of dough tip unceremoniously, not quite on the floor. The smell is fantastic, like a gentle embrace, of sugar and spice, and a smile lights my face. Ouch!

Sneaking a currant, they’re definitely too hot. So, to avoid more temptation, I put tea in the pot.

And now here we sit, drinking in the view, with a mug, and a fruit bun, and a nice friend like you. Elizabeth G

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