In 2022 I reactivated my amateur radio license as VK3WOW after a four decade hiatus, and immediately began relearning how to send and receive Morse code.
Not long afterwards, I discovered a group of keen Morse operators who, for various reasons, prefer to work at relatively slow (QRS) speeds, and who get together on the air on Tuesday nights. Participating operators often contribute to a newsletter known as "CQ QRS RagChew" which Mark Bosma VK2KI publishes weekly.
The native format of this newsletter does not readily support full text searching. However, using a combination of a purpose-trained neural net and OCR, I have been able to create a sufficiently accurate replica of each newsletter to support a useful, if not perfect, search function.
Note that in the reconstructed versions of each newsletter presented here:
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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…
Last Tuesday’s net was another corker; we only had 39 known stations on, but most of us had lots of fun. This time we also had members listening in Germany (our member Mike DL3YZ in Oberboihingen (try sending that in…
A big night on our CQQRS Net last Tuesday with at least 44 team members on or listening; conditions were interesting and varied, as you'll read in the reports. It was good to see a trickle of stations having a…
A relatively quiet night last Tuesday - at least operators-wise.... plenty of static crashes though. Looks like we had around 34 stations - some reported good conditions, some reported poor; and terrific to have an SWL report from the UK…
CQ QRS RagChew Well Tuesday's CQQRS Slow CW practice QSO net wasn’t a world-beater compared to our record of 52 known stations on... but it was still pretty good. Things are looking positive when people are discovering that our 15KHZ…
Well this week was an opportunity of a lifetime for many to see an Aurora in lower latitude skies to normal, and to experience the unusual effects of the geomagnetic disturbances that go with the mass coronal ejections expected at…
Boy! Did you have fun on Tuesday night? This time we had lots of people on both 40m and 80m, good propagation and for most people, low band-noise conditions which made for a great night for all concerned. How did…
CQ QRS RagChew International Morse Code Day on April 27TH was behind many goings on this past week. I hope you were able to get involved; see below for details. Here’s this week’s list of the 41 stations heard on…