Well well - another hugely successful year for our CQQRS Slow CW Practice @SO net. We now have over 200 readers of the weekly RagChew newsletter, and most weeks have around 5 dozen people on air on Tuesdays, enjoying the…

Terrific to hear so many of our team on air having fun on our Tuesday evening CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO net this week. I was using my tiny plastic (tr)uSDR Arduino-powered transceiver again, this time from the balcony of…

Inverted-L on a 3.6m collapsable fishing pole at our hotel in Lorne. Neat unobtrusive installation... pity it didn’t work! Last Tuesday’s Group Here’s this week’s list of the 64 stations heard by our team members: Reports Many people have told…

Last Tuesday’s Group Here’s this week’s list of the 57 stations heard on the CQQRS net on Tuesday Masthead Image Reports Submissions close lunch time on Thursday. If you hear or work one of our team on a different band…

Poor propagation conditions, static crashes from thunderstorms and generally tough conditions kept our numbers down significantly last Tuesday... but those of us who battled through had a great time! And I’m pleased to announce that despite the conditions, we had…

Early Tuesday morning UK time at the start of this week’s CQQRS net. First snow of the season - Simon MOKBJ at Wolverhampton So many stations on air.... so much fun had! Tuesday’s net was great fun, with lots of…

Simon MOKBJ at Sea Palling near Norfolk - testing out then abandonin« a possible location on Monday before Tuesday's DXperiment. Last Tuesday's net was a bit quieter than we've become accustomed to lately (we had reports of 42 stations, versus…

Last Tuesday’s Group Here’s this week’s list of the 65 stations heard on the CQQRS group muster on Tuesday evening: Here’s this week’s list of the 65 stations heard on the CQQRS group muster on Tiiacday avaninn: New Team Member:…

Yet another outstanding Tuesday; so many operators on air or listening-in enjoying the art of CW - learning, practicing, reminiscing, mentoring.... all just having fun with this strange aspect of amateur radio. Whodathunkit that so many of us were driven…

Boy oh boy! Another bumper RagChew edition packed full of articles from so many contributors. Thank you one and all. I wonder whether the tough conditions on Tuesday evening had anything to do with so many of our team members…

Sounds like a broken record doesn’t it? Another outstanding CQQRS Practice QSO Group get-together on Tuesday afternoon / evening / morning, depending where in the world you were. Conditions were challenging for many people - static crashes from the line…

Another sensational Tuesday evening this week - so many people having a go, learning, and having fun in the process; what a great group! I’ve put my head in the sand and tried to ignore it... but sure as eggs,…

The weekly CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO Group gets together on Tuesdays between about 0700Z and 13002Z, in designated segments of the 40m then 80m band (see the end of this newsletter for details). Although originally organised for both new…

Another bloody outstanding week, and nearly another world record with at least 67 stations on our CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO net on Tuesday. Well done one and all! This week the gremlins have gone to bother someone else... and…

Last Tuesday’s Net Here’s this week’s list of the 61 stations heard: Masthead Image The image this week is the VOCAP-Ham circle long path ionospheric prediction of the VK6 to UK path, showing how lucky we were on Tuesday to…

Wow! Another sensational Tuesday on the CQQRS Slow CW Practice QSO net - at least 79 stations on air or known to be listening! Another gold medal to you all with our new world record! And what’s more - we…

So, off the soap box, and back to the fun! Here’s this week’s list of the 60 stations Paya] FR ecm fF beer es on pret been CO So, off the soap box, and back to the fun! Here’s this…

Oh boy! If! could recall a suitable quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I'd use it.... but I can’t, so I won’t! Amazingly amazing! But needless to say, I’m just overjoyed by how good our net was last…

Last Tuesday’s Net Here’s this week’s list of the 59 stations heard: New Team Members This week I’m pleased to welcome a whole bunch of new team members: * Kevin VK3KEV from Semour * Mathew VK3AFH from Wantirna South *…

It just gets better and better! I was late to the party on Tuesday, but had a balll both from home with my wide-as-the-side-of-barn nearly 50 year old TS-120S from home the two Southern Electronics Group Remotes in WA and…

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: Masthead Image And…

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…

Last Tuesday’s Net Here’s this week’s list of the 30 of our team stations heard - plus another 12 stations reported: Reports After next Tuesday’s net, please send me a list of who you worked and / or who you…

CQ QRS RagChew Last Tuesday’s Net Here’s this week’s list of the 44 of our stations plus 20 visitors heard on Tuesday’s — ft New Team Members Welcome this week to Colin VK2JCC also known as Professor Portable (which hopefully…

Looks like we had a good turn-out of stations on Tuesday night again... and most reported having a terrific night of QRS fun. Thank you to those who submitted the reports you'll see below - I really enjoy reading your…