2024 24 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 23 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 22 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 21 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 20 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 19 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 18 CQ QRS RagChew
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…
2024 17 CQ QRS RagChew
First and foremost..... Saturday April 27TH is International Morse Code Day, and to celebrate Samuel Morse’s Birthday, we’re running the Zoom videoconference quiz at 0845Z this coming Saturday evening. And don’t worry - it’s all about having fun, not whether…
2024 16 CQ QRS RagChew
But other people reported similar phenomena on 40m - so let’s go with the hypothesis that we were hearing some sort of ionospheric anomaly - possibly associated with aurora or other solar radiation / geomagnetic activity. This month’s CQ QRS…