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:
Search the CQ QRS RagChew archive:
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…
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…