Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for this great image. Apparently there was a time when: a. electronic things were built by hand, component by component, and b. that there was a time when electronics was actually built in Australia.…

This week we bid farewell to Nigel G4RWI and Lady Josephine as they headed to Queensland for the last nibble of their six month visit to Australia and New Zealand before returning down-under to the UK. Nigel had been singularly…

Thanks this week to Ketut VK3BWN - we could just about hear the grin on his face when he was operating from his back porch on Tuesday night! See Other News for Ketut's terrific report - thanks for sharing your…

Dah-di-dah-di-dah Well well well - who'd have believed after the geomagnetic storm early in the week, that things would have settled down by Tuesday evening. I thought there was less CQQRS stations on 40m than usual when I listened, but…

Thanks this week to Dean VK3DL from Geelong for this useful tiy G'day from what Nigel G4RWI dubbed CQQRS HQ. Well it might be headquatered at Beautiful South Bowning, but in reality - CQQRS is about the 250+ operators and…

This week Mike DL3YZ has been back to his favourite antenna test range near Stuttgart. This time testing 15 m to VK, using a new triton hybrid multi-band antenna, a full-wave loop made out of 2 telescopic whips. Stay tuned…

This week your editor Mark VK2KI / VK6QI was back home after three weeks at South Gippsland Victoria. Boy oh boy! I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the spreadsheet produced by John VK2RU from the reports of…

Isn't this a beauty? Simon MOKBJ’s beautiful new 1970S vintage Kenwood TS-530SP, as used successfully on the CQQRS net on Tuesday. Everything’s right - microphone and gain controls are where they should be, narrow filter selected... woo hoo! And thank…

Stephen ZL3ABX near Nelson on the South Island with his home-brewed transceiver and the IC-705 used on this week’s CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net. Would you believe we had 73 stations reported on Tuesday's CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO…

Boy oh boy! Here was I telling Ms Elizabeth that this week’s newsletter would be out ina flash and wouldn't interrupt our pub-packing (low-carbon use, public transport- only, staying in local pubs, etc) holiday to Victoria at all. Well here…

Thanks this week to Nigel VK6NI who has responded to my request for non-copyright images. This one from his Cheyne Island 2007 Islands On The Air expedition. Great to see conditions returning to whatever Normal is at the moment on…

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU - PIMLR perhaps? From the Dipped Quill of Mark VK2KI Hooray... the geomagnetic storm was a fading memory... and normality returned to the CQQRS Practice QSO Net on Tuesday night - this week we…

Thanks this week to Ross MONNK for the image; Ross has called this work of art ‘A Creepy Hand Sending CQ VK to No Effect’. The blue pad on a non-slip mat is a wrist support to put Ross’ hand…

Thanks this week to Nigel G4RWI for the shot from his current VK4 location Note the patented frying pan paddle stabiliser. Wowee... I think another world record of 72 stations on our Tuesday CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net! Bloody…

Website If you’d like to find out a bit about our net, or would like to pass information to others about our Tuesday get-togethers, here’s the link to our website. bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite So here we go - please enjoy the newsletter.…

Thanks this week to James VK7JZ who set up briefly at Montrose Bay TAS on Tuesday evening. Weather looks charming. So many newsletters like this one start their first edition of the year with silly words like “welcome to...” etc,…

Thanks from the team at RagChew Central to every one of our 230+ membership who contributed to our newsletter this year! Fantastic! The mind was strong, but apparently the body wasn’t. Tuesday's CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Net was relatively…

Thanks this week to George VK2AOE for the hybrid delight... one-tube transmitter, DX-160 receiver... and a novel use of a 5-1/4" disk drive mount for what appears to be a digital VFO Looks to me like on the whole, we…

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU for the image of his latest project - restoration of a Heathkit DX-100B transmitter. See Jordan’s report for more. | really like some of the photos we get of our team’s restoration projects -…

Last week our team-mate Lin VK6NT operated from the Northern Corridor Radio Group’s station VK6NC at Whiteman Park... using this four-element 40m Yagi! Yowzal! Thanks to Richard VK6HRC for the image and correction to my report; turns out that the…

Ron VK7ME caught en-route to Bundaberg using the Morse Mania App with his shiny new BaMaKey paddle. Careful Ron - they warned you that CW could be habit-forming! I'm used to reading reports from some contributors who had tough conditions…

The view from Mike DL3YZ’s favourite antenna test range in Stuttgart - with dust blowing in from the Sahara Desert. Photographed by Susi. OT IEE LESLIE RagChew newsletter late again! Sorry folks... seems this week there were too many things…

So why does James VK7JZ have a look of consternation? See the newsletter for details. Well just goes to show.... what would I know? The arrival of the solar radiation from the Coronal Mass Ejection on Tuesday happened as predicted...…

Well home again after three weeks of caravan camping; lots of fun, and even success on air from the three sites. Interesting to go from green Victoria to dry NSW, but then back to green Beautiful South Bowning... Except for…

Spring time in our part of the world means thunderstorms in the build-up to the monsoon season up North... and this week Easterners and Northerners were certainly treated to lots of the resulting static crashes. And when the 40m grey-line…