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Did you have fun on Tuesday’s CQQRS
week?

| certainly hope you did;

Slow CW

Practice QSO

net this

that’s the aim - along with providing our

new and no-so-new operators with an opportunity to get some

practice ina

safe place where no-one will judge them on their ability.
A small bunch of us started this week’s get-together on 20m - enjoying the
great conditions chatting to our team
What fun!

40m

and 80m

members

in Europe and the UK.

provided their fair share of QSOs,

no-one ventured to 160m this week.

but looks like

Nevertheless, there were 60 stations

heard by at least 45 of our family members this time.

Thank you all for

submitting your reports, and also to Richard VK6HRC for compiling the
Post-Morsum

report after Wednesday

morning’s call-back.

This week we take a peek at the Northampton

antenna farm of Chris

G7BED - who’s sent us some terrific material at short notice.

I’m

particularly keen to find out about the stations of all our CQQRS family
members

- and it’s really not hard to put something together - | suspect

that Chris did this pretty much with his camera

on the fly - and you'll see,

RSS

the result is really good.
John VK2RU

Can you do the same?

continues his series of head-copy practice

material, plowing into 7he Wind in the Willows- thanks
mate - pretty good for the couple travelling the far
North in a caravan, who were connected to 240V
power and water for the first time in five months this
week.

John is now heading Southward

and reports a

relaxed state, not having to watch

out for crocs, snakes or giant spiders.
interesting Readable

John has also brought us another

Five article and once again left us with a smile on our

dial at the end of the newsletter.
We also learn from Stan ZL3TK about the latest Enigma
Historic US Navy station KPH - which somehow

challenge from the

| missed.

the email distribution list, but perhaps it’s been trimmed

| thought | was on
in the cut-backs.

So if you hear of more KPH challenges, please let me know early, so | can
let others in on the secret too.

This week Stan also winds up the QRS

International Flight Contest with the results and a debrief for those who
had a go at the interesting and fun learning exercise.
And we hear from our mate Simon

MOKB] who also popped

up on Tuesday;

and you thought spelling your QTH

in CW was a challenge!

Chris VK3QB

has his regular CW Ops segment - this week discussing dropping your line
in the DX or contesting puddles.

And Peter VK3WOW

alternative to my suggestion of a separate QRQ
after lan VK7TA’s comments

has suggested an

(ie non-QRS)

rag-chew net,

last week.

I'd also like to acknowledge the trials and tribulations of our CQQRS
Reports editor Patrick VK2IOW.

As the deadline for this week’s material

drew closer, Patrick’s only two-year old computer decided it didn’t like CW
- and spat the dummy
hard drive!

- black screen, 3FO hard disk error, can’t find the

Thank you Patrick for biting the bullet and buying a new

machine and sorting out the configuring to keep us on the air;
Patrick:

to quote

“never in the history of human digital endeavour have so many

decisions to be made,

with so little understanding, by so few”

:) Well done

mate.
So please read on;

| hope you enjoy the newsletter and come away with a

smile.

Masthead
The masthead
G7BED

Image
photo this week is the Icom IC-7610 belonging to Chris

at Northampton,

about 100km

North of London.

As you know, Chris

is one of the down-under DXperiment team who joins us each week early
on Tuesday morning
As mentioned

his time - to try some

long-path propagation on 20m.

above, Chris tells us about his antennas later in the

newsletter.

Reports
Just an early reminder - after next Tuesday’s Group, please send me a
of who you worked and / or who you heard using our web form here:

list

bit.ly/COORSNET

Please help attract new and old team
your report each week.

members to have a go by submitting

Submissions close 1300 (Eastern Australian time) on

Thursday.
Website
lf you'd like to find out a bit about our net, or would
to others about our Tuesday get-togethers,

like to pass information

here’s the link to our website.

bit. ly/CQQRSWebsite

Cheers,
mb
Mark Bosma
VK2KI / VK6QI

Beautiful South Bowning

mark.bosma@icloud.com

NSW

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Reports

& Comments

Here’s this week’s

Last Tuesday’s

Group

Here’s the 60 stations heard by 45 members

CQQORS Team

Member

DL/MONNK
DL3YZ
G7BED

Qs0T

Worked 20m | VK3DRQ |
Worked 80m
VK2KI
Heard on air

reports.

QSO 2

QSO 3

QSO 4

VK3KEV
VK3KEV |

VK2Kl
VK3DRQ

VK4PN

of our team on Tuesday:

QSO5

QSO 6

QsSO7

asos

MOKB)

Worked 20m
Heard on air
Heard on air
Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard on air
Worked 20m
Heard 20m
Tried 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard on air
Heard 40m
Worked 40m

Heard on air

Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Tried 80m

Heard 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Heard on air

Worked 20m
Heard 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard 40m

Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Worked 20m
Heard 40m
Worked

80m

Heard 40m
Tried 40m
Heard 80m
Heard on air
Worked 40m

Heard 40m

Worked 20m
Worked 80m
Heard on air

Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard 80m
Heard on air
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Worked 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m

Heard 20m
Heard 40m
Heard 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 40m

VK3DBD

Heard 40m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 40m
Worked 80m
Heard on air
Heard 40m

The spreadsheets above show the known stations on last Tuesday’s Group;
the comments

in the team

members’

reports (submitted via our webform

bit.ly/CQOORSNET ) follow:
Comments:
This week’s comments from our webform

reports have been compiled for

us by Patrick VK2IOW on his flash new notebook computer;

thanks Patrick.

From Mike DL3YZ at Stuttgart / Germany
[20m]

Today | finally managed to operate with my home brew 20m
full wave diamond loop antenna.

It was great fun, as it did

really well this morning. Condx were also a charm. At some
times | had S7 on the wonderful SDR at Ironstone. A big
thank you to all stations calling me around the globe. Your
signals were easy copy and some were up here at S8 with
just 100 watts. Still | doubt | was able to chat to all stations
that tried to call me in the pile-up at the start of my shift. I'm
sorry for that, and | hope you have reached one of my fellows this morning. Greetings
from sunny Germany, Mike - DL3YZ

From Chris Shaw ZL4CTS at Te Anau

[40m]
Only about three stations heard, but they kept fading
except for (I think) VK2KI at 7O20KHz.

From Joe VK2KJu at Wagga Wagga
[40m]

Great signal strengths
[80m]

Conditions OK

From Ross DL/MONNK at Exeter UK via Stuttgart Germany
[20m]
At tha

and

mir tima

elat

99m

| haard

PAL

SAIS

Gin

LEP

GwWill

biw@anru

weak station but couldn't make out the callsign.
And then it was gone. I'd love to know who it
was.

From David VK6KD at Ballajura WA
[40m]
Had a quick look and listen but saw nothing on
the spectrum scope waterwall. When | came

back much later only fast CW stations were
calling CQ. Too fast for me, hihi.
[80m]

From my QTH 80m was very quiet. | was happy
to have QSOs with Mark VK2KI and Sava VK4PN. Remote SDR Rx in Yarloop was
utilised for Sava's QSO as his sig was very low at my QTH. 73s to all.

From Bad Tempered Victorian (Keiran) VK3BTV at Lilydale, Victoria
[40m]

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beginners.

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Had a great chat with Manny, VK3DRQ again and
brushed up on my Spanish. He signed off with "Hasta
La Proxima, Amigo"

meaning

"Until next time, friend

If he ever sends "Hasta La Vista, Baby" I'll be diving for

the floor :)

Manny's QRS sending is rock solid and reliable for
Had a great QSO with Bozzie VK2KI also - he was shocked to hear me

on air.

[80m]
| called VK5KFG after he signed with VK6NW and signals were fading. But then
Sava VK4PN popped up from Queensland for a couple of quick overs, which was

appreciated. Cheers Sava!

From Sava VK4PN at MT Ommaney Brisbane
[20m]
Had only 15 min before guests

arrived enough for a quick QSO with
DL3YZ. He was readable at about S5
at best but he gave me S8! Hard to
explain this difference in signal

strength along presumably the same

[ge

; a4,

i EX

he Sls

ort etcn
a

path. | have noticed this with most of
the FT8 reports which are software generated so there is no bias. It seems that
assumption of the same path in either direction only applies to line of sight, when
ionosphere is involved who knows.

[40m]
No time to work on 40 m this Tuesday, family visiting.
[80m]

Managed to squeeze few contacts on 80m after family left. Lucky by this time of night
in QLD it was twilight in WA and VK6 stations were starting to come through. Local
QRN was pretty bad so copying was sporadic but sufficient to carry simple

conversation. Signal strengths were OK around S6 but shredded by frequent QRN
bursts. The evening finished with first QSO between Keiran VK3BTV from Lilydale
and myself. Being very late QSO was brief.

From Simon MOKBy at Wolverhampton in England's Black Country
[20m]
| just couldn't keep away. With great propagation at the start of this week (I'm making

QSOs with 1W) | thought I'd give the long path a listen. Sure enough, | heard David
VK3DBD finishing a QSO into Europe and jumped on when they had finished. We

had a really nice ragchew. Is this a sign that the summer

j doldrums are passing and booming DxX is just around the
corner?

From Wayne VK6NW at Bridgetown

[80m]

80m sigs were good from the east coast, no QSB

From Wal VK2WP at Bathurst NSW

[40m]

SS SSOlenie[=

ames

Signals were good strength despite a solar storm

which was active.

os Seno

From Peter VK5KDO at Encounter Bay SA
[80m]
| heard VK5LJ on my WS62 but he was a fair way off my

3526 crystal freq. Still not getting into VASPH SDR with
my 2W output. Using same antenna | was able to have a

QSO with lan VK5CZ using Syncal at 20W.

From Daniel VK6WE at Cottesloe

[40m]

| was enjoying my birthday and dipped in twice to test
the bands. It seemed very quiet but | got an answer

| to my call each time for two short QSOs. It added a
little more interest to the day.

From your editor Mark VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW
[20m]

When | came back from our afternoon walk just
before DXperiment sked time, Mike DLSYZ was
thundering through at RSN 531 as he finished a

QSO with an RB station.

Lt)

| jumped in and hooked

him straight away - his new loop antenna was really

working well, and his signal increased up to RSN
551 in the last over. Great to hear the pile-up of
Aussies calling when we finished.
| started stirring up Chris G7BED via WhatsApp to let him know the ionosphere was

playing well - he advised that he was on to it - charging-up on Wheatabix in
anticipation.

Mike was still going hammer-and-tong as 0630z approached and | was wondering

how the hand-over of the station to Ross MONNK as a Remote operator was going to
pan out. However, the hand-over seemed to go nicely and no friendships were lost in
the making of the transition.
When | caught up with Ross DL/MONNK (on Mike's station as a Remote) signals had
dropped a bit - | reported RSN 421 and he sent RSN 431 back. A while later Simon
MOKBJ came up unexpectedly on 14033 and had a chat to David VK3DBD. Simon

was only RSN 211 here - so | didn't try annoying the ionosphere.

[40m]

Things were very quiet when | returned to the shack after dinner; only the one QSO
under-way. | could also only just make out the weak CQ signal from Richard

VK6HRC - but that was mainly because | was listening to him on the VK6PH
KiwiSDR at lronstone Range as well; the band wasn't open yet from WA to darkest
NSW from the sounds of things.
So | resorted to calling CQ.

| was pleased to be called by Clive ZL1CJB in Auckland.

Clive's RSN report showed that he was struggling with an S6 noise level and he also
reported QSB - so we had a brief chat only.
Great to hook up with one of our founding team members, Richard VK6PZT at
Dalyellup again. Then followed Wayne VK6NW in Bridgetown who was a tad stronger
than Richard, then Keiran VKSBTV came up and bent my TS-120S S meter with a
pretty rare S9 signal.

[80m]
There was a bit of activity around with good signals when | came down late to 80m.
A few CQs drew no nibbles, so | went for the fish in a barrel solution (ie teed-up a
chat via WhatsApp). Good to work David VK6KD again - we went from chatting
every week when he and Pauline were on the road, to only occasionally now that
they are home.... let's blame his Birthday present from Ms Pauline - the new IC-7610,
so he then sells it to me!

Also from your editor Mark VK6QI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW via the VK5PH

Ironstone Range and VK6SEG Hoddys Well KiwiSDRs and the VK6SR Remote
station at Jandakot.
[20m]

Mike DL3YZ was rocking in to Paul VK5PH's Ironstone Range KiwiSDRs at RSN 561
and the VK6SEG SDR near Northam RSN 531. Chris G7BED was a nice RSN 551
into VK5 and 541 into WA. When Ross took-over the Remote station reigns, signals
into SA and WA were still good.
Simon MOKBJ came up unexpectedly and was RSN 311 into VK5 but couldn't be
spotted on the WA waterfall display this time.

[40m]
Fired up the VK6SR Remote but got too busv

—

from over East to use it, except to listen to my
own signal (not very exciting really!).

[80m]
The VK6SR Remote coupled to the antenna ok on 80m again this week - thanks
Southern Electronics Group team. This week there was the distinct sound of an
electric fence nearby - tick, tick, tick, tick. Luckily, the noise blanker function worked
at the press of the button (being a bit of a dinosaur, | haven't worked out what the
control frequency and control level controls on the Remote do - probably the dynamic
noise reduction - but luckily the traditional pulse noise NB button worked perfectly!).
lle

iat

From Lance VK7TO at Hobart
[40m]

The evening started with Armin, VK2GAS,

discussing weather and weekend bushwalking.
Next up, Jim, VK7JZ. Unsurprisingly good
signals given it was only a 18 km hop.
Unfortunately, my cottage pie was ready to
come out of the oven, so 73'd each other after
only a couple of overs each.
| was surprised to hear Phil, VK6GX so early in
the evening. We established contact, but the QSB was very deep and wide. We had
to call it quits pretty soon, as | simply wasn't receiving enough of his signal to
facilitate a conversation. It was good to get a new call in the log though.
VK3HK, Steve, was booming in Hobart.

allowed for a very relaxing QSO.

Even at 50 W, he was still S9+10.

This

Then Manny, VK3DRQ, answered my call, leading to an enjoyable extended QSO
too.

We discussed weekend visits and our DX exploits.

With the 40 m well drying up, | was about to move down to 80 m when | came across
TSOTTT, operating split from Kiribati. It didn't take long to get an unexpected new DX

entry into the log, although he was operating anything but QRS.

[80m]

When | first arrived on 80 there was no QSO activity. Lawrie, VK5LJ was calling
QRQ however, so had a brief hello with him before moving up the band to look for
any QRS contacts.
| was rewarded with Jordan, VK3ACU, as my only 80 m contact. His incredibly
strong signal made me wonder why there wasn't more 80 m activity. None the less,
as always it was nice to catch up with him.

From Peter VK6NQL

/ VK6IS at Wundowie
[40m]
That noise level still cuts in, after 1800 local,

and still makes looking for those CW sigs, more
interesting.
[80m]
It's still fairly quiet, over here, in the west,

and some extra activity - would be very nice.

From Ketut VK3BWN at Keilor

TIS

[80m]

acc

40m was very busy band at one stage but by the
time | was able to be on-air, | caught the tail end of
the busy period and could not raise any station
with my CQ call. So | jumped quickly to 80m band
to hear VK3ECH calling CQ and responded right

yes

— LW

Raa | Resenoin
a
:

away. It became a nice long QSO with Rob in Echuca. Overall the condx in 80m
band was nice: Good propagation and quiet. It was a very pleasant time to have a

QSO. Thanks Rob and catch you all again later.

From Phil VK6GX at Gidgegannup
[40m]

Condx seemed pretty good to the east coast on
40m, although | didn't hear any ZL's or VK5's.

From Jim Semmens VK7JZ at Hobart
[40m]

Only one QSO for me this week with Lance
VK7TO and | really enjoyed it. | was listening
along for a bit before-hand and pleased to get
some copy practice in. Later | could also hear

VK3DRQ and VK3RU. This week | did not

make the effort to go to a park (usually seeking
a RF quiet place), | was operating from home and so suffered a suburban noise

penalty for being lazy. When | did call CQ, | faintly heard one station responding, but
not strong enough above my noise for me to make it out (my noise being my issue),
but whoever it was, thank you for trying. | will definitely be seeking a better location
to operate from next week.

TAT AV AV AV AV AV AV AV AAV AY AV AY AY,

Post Morsum —- @3rd September 2625

from Richard VK6HRC
seven checked in on the AllStar/ Echolink and South West Repeater Hub.

VK6KD_

David

VK6FN

Max

VK6QI_

Mark

VK6ENW

Wayne

VK6HRC
VK6XL_

Allen

VK6MRB Mulligan swi and others.
David got an unintentional early start to the day as his electronic device
activated an hour earlier than normal so he decided to head off to the salt
mine. End result we caught up before net with and Mulligan checking in as
well.

He monitored 20m to start with then 40m but got busy on 8@m to work
Sava VK4PN, Wayne VK6NW and Peter VK6IS.

Max got a good start on 40m he enjoyed a contact with Phil VK6GX with great
code at a good speed but an important phone call interrupted proceedings.
Mark worked three on 2@m Mike DL3YZ, Chris G7BED and Ross MONNK
remote through Mikes system. He had a good run on 40m and then caught up
with Richard VK6PZT a founding member on 8@m. As usual Mark did a fine
job of spotting on WhatsApp monitoring multiple SDR receivers toughing it out
with an ice pack over his eye !
Wayne enjoyed himself with some local and Eastern state contacts on 40m
then on to 8@m to work Sava VK4PN, Greg VK5KFG and Peter VK6IS.
| had a good run on 49m working five stations one being Shaun VK6BEK
which was great as | had not heard him for quite some time. Tried 80m no
contacts but probably too early as quite a few turned up later when | had gone
into SWL mode.
Allen VK6XL called in at the end of the net with some queries about VHF/CW
and aurora scatter possibilities and was given a lot of helpful advice from Mark.
Thank you to all on last night and this morning
73 Richard

Made

Workbench
Yagi - Nice But Sometimes

Not Needed?

From Chris G7BED

In the weekly email reminder,

Mark suggested that our 20m

aren't just for people with gain antennas on 20m.

My HF antenna

DXperiments

| agree!

is only a simple wire fan dipole too.

Took me a few hours to make and tune, and probably cost me about £5.
I've worked the world on it and with 1OOW, my signals seem to land quite

well

in VK/ZL

land.

Just arrived

home

camera

and thought for the newsletter,

I’d pop out with the

:-).

Quick description as
follows ...
- 3 dipoles for 10m,
20m

and 40m

- All running from
the same

(common)

feeder cable
- Took some
tweaking

(mast

up/down)

because

as you tune one, the
others wander off
- But eventually you
get an antenna
system that (using

the built-in tuner in
the radio) is useable

on 10/20/40 AND
ALL the WARC
bands too.
You can see the
rotator cage,

it’s a

mast designed to
Support a small-to-

medium

sized yagi

and rotator. As |

don’t have any VHF
gear up
at the moment,
spend

| thought

pretty much

I’d use it as the centre for my dipole as |

all my time on HF these days.

There’s a short wooden stub mast to keep the radiating elements
away from the main stub mast itself. The mast winches up and down,

and then tilts right over for maintenance.

Interesting choice of support at the right hand end Chris!

It sits in a huge concrete block in the ground (1.5m cubed). | have
some old pictures of me and my Dad digging that out somewhere ... as
fast as we dug, it filled with water :-) ...

| keep toying with the idea of moving the dipole to the gable end of
the house, and getting some more 6m & VHF Yagis back up. But that’s
for another day.

It’s all I’ve used for years and I’ve worked the world.
below showing my EFHW

There also a picture

with the loading coil at the end to add 80m

...

that’s my garden shack antenna - OK, I have space compared to most
(though not by Australian standards), but I only have bits of cheap copper
wire - nothing fancy

Looking forward to working some of you again next week.
Thanks
Chris
G7BED
[Thanks for the insight into what’s at the other end Chris.

| still have half

of a similar antenna tangled up with the corrugated roofing iron tek-screws
after a storm;

with parallel elements (not fanned), | could never get the

antenna to work properly so when the rope deteriorated and it blew down,
it stayed where it landed!
By the way, many of us have never ventured that far down under, so it’s
interesting to see the beautiful garden shots as well.

Love the idea of a

garden shack and an inside shack!]

What’s going on on your workbench?

If you have an article or two that you

think might be of interest to our readers, please let Mark VK2KI
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on the track somewhere

by John VK2RU

Last week we began Chapter 2 of The Wind in the Willows,

The Open Road

in which Rat, Mole and Toad start out on their caravan adventure.
Unfortunately for them, their trip didn’t last long.
This week we continue and complete Chapter 2.
Because of MailChimp’s size limits, I’ve had to split the remaining Chapter
1 audio into three parts. If you'd like the full chapter in a single file, you
can use the complete text of Chapter 1 (attached to last week’s
newsletter) and convert it yourself with the Ebook2CW

app -

httos://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html.
I’ve made a few small adjustments to the text to keep it “Morse friendly”.
Uncommon punctuation has been removed (the Ditto CW app doesn’t
recognise some of it), and contractions have been simplified (for example,
we’l/becomes
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into the Ditto CW:

player, or load the text files

Morse Player app - https://dittocw.andro.io/.

Both work well, but Ditto CW gives you complete control over all Morse
settings, while a normal

media

player only allows changes to playback

speed, and does that in steps (e.g. 1.25x,

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But yesterday the curious neighbours already gathered together
whispering, so | will clear away all antennas for a few days. ;-)
Hope | can provide a photo showing the dimensions HI.
Have

fun

in the net

Mike
DL3YZ

KPH

Delivers the Goods

... Again!

From Stan ZL3TK
It's been a long two-year wait since the Historic Maritime Coast Station at
Point Reyes, north of San Francisco, transmitted an Enigma
now it's over.

message,

but

On Saturday 30 August the intrepid operators at KPH

delivered the goods again when they sent a war-time themed

message

encrypted on a Kriegsmarine 3-rotor machine.
The FCC prohibits both encoding and encryption on amateur band traffic,
so the transmission took place on six (retired) maritime frequencies
simultaneously, from 462 kHz to 22.4475

MHz.

No one said decrypting the message was going to be easy.

The captured

code book page needed for setting up the receiving-end machine
damaged,

a situation not atypical to real life for a Wehmacht

battle fields in the 1940s.

Kevin K6TOP,

this feature to good effect.

He says, "Use this captured code sheet to

decode the message.

manager at KPH,

is badly

Funker on the

It is in poor condition, but it’s the best we have. Use

your knowledge of what a complete Enigma
should be enough!"

focused on

code sheet looks like - it

Well, he's right, it is enough!

But for those without

previous Enigma experience, the damaged

page introduces an exciting 50

% risk-of-failure factor.

The answer lies in the photo

Why exactly 50 %?

which shows what could be either an 'O' ora

'Q'.

eeal aad2

Partly obscuring

one of the vital
steckerbrett
settings, the
ambiguity caused
by a burn
mark may be
overcome by

could

not be offered

ape
ERLE

reference

to the

Kenngruppen
for 27 May 1939

Part of an
ENIGMA code book
page retrieved
from a captured U-boot
One

sare

heeeperar tp
Sama
eat
nat
=

information

Beenee &

Zak

extrapolated
from the
remaining

VEpsnzraceee2aee-"
va
e
Vase sete eaeze
geese
mReeee

but

is able to be

ee :

destroyed

\ A

Much of the
date column

a more

fantastic exercise.

That grossly over-

used word 'fun', doesn't even come close.
For those who would
Enigma

COQ

like to experience the excitement of a successful

decrypt,

here is the transcript of Saturday's KPH transmission.

KPH

KAPT

REINERE

2312

MAY

KPH

ENIGMA

FROM

ADM

RAIDER

120

BSTHH

GMBOA

WGOCL

FRCYT

VQHDB

TIAUJ

ILARX

NKOWV

HVTAM

VJGCEF

AYUGP

ABBAW

VLOFR

ODBBC

PPBDK

ABWT4

MAKGP

JAFRKA

QREREU

UULYV

WAUZK

DUFAW

F40FT

QXKFS

END
73

OF
ES

ENIGMA
GL

JAY

MESSAGE

FOLLOWS

LYI

MESSAGE

KPH

Be aware there is a one-letter error in the message which when
easy to spot.

Next week my decrypt will be published,

seven days to do your own decrypt.

in clear is

which gives you

The time to enter to receive an

official KPH certificate in recognition has long passed.

However, as a blunt

encouragement tool 'have a go' and a way of opening the gates to a field
of purposeful CW, anyone is welcome to email their decrypted message to
zi3tk@qsli.net
and will receive an Oceania-grown certificate in
commemoration

of success.

Final challenge:

even without decrypting, can anyone spot what clearly

makes the message

historically impossible?

If so, gain some observational

‘Brownie Points’ by letting us know what it is.
73

Stan

Morse

Training

Our team

member

Net
Nic VK7WW

runs an on-air Slow Morse training net

every Wednesday

at 7pm

EDST on 3580 for 30 mins. He uses the callsign

of the Northern Tasmania Amateur Radio Club VK7TAZ
Many of our team

on that net.

learned Morse code with the

Support of Nic, and the weekly training session
comes

highly recommended

for anyone who

wants to learn the Code, or simply brush up.
Everyone’s welcome - 3580kHz at 7pm
time every Wednesday;
CQQRS

Eastern

you'll hear lots of the

team on that net.

Jordan VK3ACU

SLOW MORSE CODE COURSE

Learn Morse Code - Slow Morse
Course

has

recorded the complete set of lessons which you
can now find here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?
list=PLHSQmZz6fBXO/swAfbTmutrbbELl
7fUQL
Contact Nic VK7WW

for more info nicholaschantler@hotmail.com

how to join the NTARC

DISCORD

including

group to follow the action, or just come

along and join in on Wednesdays.

Winding

up the

QRS

International

Flight Contest

From Stan ZL3TK
Eleven weeks and just over 130 QTCs since the launch,

It's all over!

Sincere thanks goes out to all who took part in the spirit IFC was
intended,

for without entrants (albeit stating the obvious) there’d be no

contest.
And here's what you've all been waiting for:
the Winners who surpassed
points gap between

100 points.

the 'place-getters',

in reality

To avoid embarrassment,

the

116 the next lower scorers is so big those entrants

won't be listed, and neither will the even lower scorers who bailed out.
Nonetheless, all entrants will receive a suitably-annotated certificate in
acknowledgement.

QRS IFC Winners
Place

|Operator|

Callsign

Flights

moe
Medium

Ist

Kevin

VKSKEV

160

100%

énd

John

VK2ZRU

HIF

156

99%

ard

Derek

VK4IDRK

Sound File

151

94 Yo

Ath

Garry

VK2GAZ

Sound File

116

tao

It became

Points | Accuracy

clear early on that the significant numbers of early entrants was

deceptive, because historically we know that few can see the many
advantages such opportunities as IFC offer.

Most entrants were sending

QTCs only intermittently, eliminating any possibility of their ever reaching
the notional threshold of 100 points. Then after making the same
over and over and despite being given wide-ranging

mistake

hints how to jump-

Start themselves back on track, several bailed out entirely.

Hints cannot

be too specific without unfairly discriminating against those who achieve
top scores unaided, so lateral thinking in interpreting hints would have

likely prevented so many

bail outs.

Out of frustration | guess,

a couple of unsuccessful

word),

became

hintees

(if that's a real

less than friendly and suggested traps had been

deliberately set,

somehow the contest was rigged and trickery was going

on to make them fail.

But for what purpose?

from the truth, as the Winners' scores show.

Nothing could be further
Meanwhile the points-

sucking conundrum that folks were facing seemed

insurmountable, yet the

solution was hidden in plain sight and the tool to solve it had already been
provided.

It all came down to how the tool was used,

or if it was used at

all.
Then

rising out of the depressing

very determined

murk came a bright light in the form of a

competitor who was not going to be beaten.

He put in

the hard yards to unearth what was causing him, and the others in his
position, so much
when

grief.

It took a while before he tracked it down,

he did he applied the new-found

knowledge and got an immediate,

gratifying elevation to 14 points for each flight.
dogged

but

Despite his early losses,

perseverance got him over the 'place-getter' finish line.

Lesson:

any of those who bailed-out could have done exactly the same thing.
So what was going on?

Using this extract from my logs,

let's all play

‘Spot the Problem’.

Embarkation Airport

OS |

Destination Airport

TOULOUSE BLAGNAC AIRPORT, | TOULOUSE BLAGNAC AIRPORT,
FRANCE
FRANCE

laT4

Latitude

TLS | 33R3672N

Distance:

Great

aoe

Langitude

laT A

Latitude

Leangitude

deg T

TR5ESITW

> CMN:

33R3672N

TRSS97TW

| 1380)

2417

Look first at the two IATA codes,

then see how the airport of embarkation

and its coordinates are the same as those of the destination airport?
can that be possible?

not exactly located in the same city.

As QTCs arrived and | filled in the

log sheets pre-configured for each competitor, the problem
instantly obvious.

How

Now consider the distance travelled, it shows they're
became

I'm sure competitors never intended such duplication,

but repeatedly earning only 8 out of a possible14 points was decimating
the afflicted's scores, without considering further losses from various
errors.
The remedy was to compare one's log sheet against the associated sound
file to review what was actually being sent, which obviously had little
resemblance to the researched data.
Cynical bailers-out, your apologies,
It might seem
getters,

Sosimple;

there were no tricks!

if offered, will be accepted.

a bit dismal having only four competitors qualify as place-

however their entries demonstrate the rules were clear and able

to be followed.

Those high scores resulted solely from their personal

dedication to the task,

especially so for our conundrum-cracking

Holmes’ who successfully dragged

‘Sherlock

himself back into contention after

making

heavy early losses

Finally,

not to be intimidated by the unpredictable 'god of propagation’,

- very well done that man!

Apollo, two place-getters thumbed
their QTCs live on 40 m HF

their noses at using sound files and sent

- naked CW at its best.

The few errors

encountered were quickly dealt with and only a smattering of
perseverance was needed to succeed.
This kind of multi-tasking exercise is one way to gain experience in
multiple disciplines simultaneously: comprehension;
thinking; data

research;

logical

handling and composition,
to CW competence

in addition of course

- what’s not to like?

Those who adopted the aphorism ‘Who Dares
Wins’, indeed won

handsomely.

Congratulations to the four intrepid winners.

Everyone will have learned

things from IFC, including me, especially about what not to do next time.
In due course each entrant will receive a Certificate to hang on the shack
wall in appreciation for either participating or achieving.

What's it

called, brag-paper?
73

Stan

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APPLICATION

Say What?
From Simon

Choosing

What

to Send

FORM

as Your QTH

MOKB]

Aussie and Kiwi place names can be quite tricky to copy but it's fun when a
long one comes across the long path.
I'm burdened with a long QTH

myself. "WOLVERHAMPTON"

is a bit tiresome

to send and not every foreign station has heard of the city, although
many claims to fame.

it has

| could send the specific area in which | live but

"WEDNESFIELD"

isn't much

better.

Yesterday | worked John GW3VVC,

who gave his QTH

as "ANGLESEY".

For

those unfamiliar with the geography of the UK, it's the beautiful island off
the coast of North Wales, famous for its castles and the ferry port which
takes passengers to Dublin.
When

| checked John's QRZ page, | saw that he was being a bit unspecific

by sending

"ANGLESEY".

He actually lives
in LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGO
GOCH.

It is a real place and even features the full name on signs at its tiny

railway station. | wonder if John has ever sent that and if so, did anyone
come

back with "PSE QTH AGN?"

Simon
MOKB)

il na |

CW Ops News for 4 September 2025
Some more thoughts on working DX
I'd like to build on the topic of workina

DX from last week. As amateur radio

——

—

wee

eee eeeeee

enthusiasts we have free (more or less) access to a vast swath of the RF spectrum.
Those of us who spend time on the HF bands will attest to the wonder of RF and
propagation. You can never be sure what the ionosphere will serve up.
We are (mostly) creatures of habit. We have our favourite bands, skeds, times of day,
etc, and it can be easy to fall into the comfort of a predictable routine. HF radio offers
a great opportunity to challenge those habits and really have some fun. Call it the
magic of radio.

Spin the dial.
Last Sunday | received a text message from a friend: “check out 17m it’s on fire”... |
can’t remember the last time | was on 17 metres. Well, my normal habit has me on
40 or 20 metres, but | decided to match the 40-metre doublet and spin the dial on 17

metres.
| started at about 1200Z and over the next sixty minutes | was lost in the magic of
radio. It started with a few European Russians, then some Japanese and a Philippine
station, then swung back to Europe with a couple of English stations, then Mark from

Ange in Sweden and a couple of Germans. About 80% of the QSOs were ops
responding to my CQs.
The opening was sufficiently strong that my dipole (10 metres high) and 100 Watts

was more than enough, with most stations reporting readability 5, even if signal
strengths weren't S9. And pretty much every QSO followed the protocol | discussed
last week. Some were a

simple “569, op is Vlad - tu 73”, but a few extended to

include QTH, a weather report and a basic description of the op’s station.
Here | am, 42 years since my first QSO, and | still marvel at the magic of HF radio. It
still amazes me when | report the temp at 3c here 100km SE of Melbourne, and Ken
(250km SW of Tokyo) reports a hot and sticky 35c. It might seem fickle in the age of

social media, “free” messaging and voice apps, and news-on-demand, but none of
that offers the magic and surprise of an unknown response to a CQ on HF.

On Monday night the conditions were similar. The opening wasn’t as long and signals
weren’t quite as strong, but | worked another seven DX stations from JA to SM.

So, | encourage readers to spin the aial. The sometimes-random nature of
propagation can serve up all sorts of surprises. Don’t feel intimidated. Even if the

speed is a little above your comfort zone, remember, most DX QSOs follow a pretty
standard protocol. The added bonus is that you'll be pleasantly surprised at just what
you can copy — and the very best way to improve your CW is to challenge yourself.

CW Ops
This weekend (6 September) is the CW Ops Open Contest. Now, contesting isn’t for
everyone, but this contest is a bit different. It's made up of three four-hour sessions.
Personally, | think this is a great idea. It enables operators to participate in all three
sessions, or just one or two. You don’t have to commit a whole 24 or 48 hours to the
contest.
Even if you’re not a contester, spin the dial and have a listen. The speeds might be a
little fast, but you’ll be surprised what you can copy.
https://cwops.org/cwops-tests/cw-open/

Support
I’m off to Norfolk Island (VK9NT) in a little over a week. Since I'll be there for the

normal monthly Zoom session (15 September), | thought readers might be
interested to join the session and see our station first-hand. Luke VK3HJ and | will
walk through the set-up and provide some hints ‘n tips for breaking pileups.
https ://morsecodesessions.wordpress.com/zoom-details/

If you’re free, please join us. We'll also run a Q&A session. We are on the island for
two weeks and it’s always great to have QSOs with our fellow
VK ops just a short hop over the water. For those on the east
coast, Norfolk Island is a very easy chip shot. Maybe set
yourself a challenge and see how many bands you can work us

on.

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please drop me an email.

73, Chris VK3QB & VK1CWO
CW Ops OC Ambassador
vk3qb
@ hotmail.com or vk1cwo @outlook.com

Peter VK3WOW

Dann

r/amateurradio
i/NeinNineNeiin

-. Bh

pee

Time Taken To Learn Morse Code
According to US Army
General

Pt
tit tt

Lot}

| papio teawners) |
bh

”

ssavhentsvrerssteee

Here gpm is groups per minute. One group is five
symbols, so PARIS is one group, therefore 1 gpm
= 1wpm.

HOURS

ee
Tua s-S

to pass 5 fo 5 gpa.
Figure i- i, Cumulative hours required

Source: TM11-459

Interesting post on Reddit just now highlighting great
natural variation in how quickly we learn Morse Code
(presumably under a military training regime). Fast
learners accomplish 15 wpm after only 30 hours
(whew!) while “slow” learners take 125 hours to
reach this goal. All in all, it's probably for the best
that I've never logged the hours that I’ve put into this
task. | think I'd be not only not on the chart, but
probably three rooms down the corridor...

1:15pm

ue @3
[Everyone’s different - some learn some things quickly, some not so quick.
Does it matter in the scheme of things?

Nope!

My aim is to encourage

everyone to enjoy the journey - it’s not a race, and whether you take 300
hours or 30 - who cares?
you certainly don’t!
that’s normal.

The folks who’d love to have CW contacts with

The other side of the coin Is if you’re struggling -

| struggled and hated it when | had to learn the Code in the

70s for the AOCP exam.... and now look how much time | spend doing CWrelated things!

Keep it up.]

If you've read something that you think might be of interest to our readers,
please let me know.
below.

For guidance on writing for RagChew,

Please email material to Mark VK2KI:

see Articles

cqagrsnet@gmail.com

Readable (Watchable) Five
Compiled on the track somewhere by John VK2RU

https:/Awww. youtube.com/@ve3svq-theshakykey440

a ca

ONTARIO

VESSVQ

THE SHAKY KEY-VE3SVQ
@ve3svq-theshakykey440 - 1.34K subscribers - 143 videos
WELCOME

TO THE SHAKY KEY BY VE3SVQ

...more

This is a YouTube channel created by Keith (VE3SVQ), aimed primarily at
newcomers to Morse code and amateur radio. What sets the channel apart is its
approachable teaching style and practical focus. Keith understands the hurdles
beginners face, things like timing, speed, and the anxiety of making mistakes on-air,

and addresses them directly with patience and encouragement.

The channel covers a wide range of topics, from slow-speed practice sessions (ideal
for those building confidence at 10-12 WPM) to discussions about whether using a
CW decoder is acceptable, or how to get started with Parks On The Air (POTA)
activations. Keith also shares tips on key technique, station setup, and operating
etiquette, helping operators understand both the technical and cultural aspects of
CW.
For those interested in equipment, Keith occasionally delves into straight keys,
paddles, and electronic keyers, explaining their pros and cons. He also demonstrates
how simple rigs and portable antennas can be used effectively for QRP and field
operations.
With over 130 videos and a steadily growing community, The Shaky Key provides

both instruction and encouragement. It feels like sitting down with a mentor who

remembers what it’s like to be new, and who genuinely wants to see others succeed
on the key.

Here’s the link:

https://www.youtube.com/@ve3svq-theshakykey440

If you've read something that you think might be of interest to our readers,
please let me know so John

and | can share more thoughts and ideas.

guidance on writing for RagChew,

see Articles below.

material to Mark VK2KI:

QRQ

Please email

cqqrsnet@gmail.com

Rag-Chew Anyone?

From Peter VK3WOW
I personally am glad we are thinking about the desirability and
practicality of adding QRQ

contacts in some way to our existing QRS

activities (refer RagChews

34/2025

and

35/2025).

For

One possible way forward would be to have Mark flag the normal
frequency limits of ‘our’ activities as the desired sub-band for QRS
as he does at the moment,

activity

but, in addition, to mention explicitly that if

anyone would like to venture on some QRQ

activity on Tuesday evening,

they’re welcome to do that at a frequency below ‘our’ designated subband

for QRS

activity.

I see no reason why any possible QRQ
RagChew

activity by people receiving

should not be logged on the same form as what we’re currently

using for QRS

activity. They’re all QSOs, after all.

Peter VK3WOW

[Thank you Peter.

Just as lan VK7TA pointed out the secondary effect of

establishing a QRQ net on a different night last week, you have also made
an excellent suggestion here. From your suggestion, I propose that we
nominate 7020kHz and 3535kHz as a good place to hang-out if youre
after a bit of QRQ rag-chew action.
that’s too fast for them.

That way no-one gets upset at CW

And what’s more,

the frequencies are on the

doorsteps of the DxX-end of the bands - so you never know where your
Signals might end up?
the newsletter).

I’ve added the note to our schedule further down

Anyone not happy with that frequency pair?

cggrsnet@gmail.com

Do you have a question or two that are worth sharing?
discussion-starter?

How about a

Please let me know cqgrsnet@gmail.com

and I/’// pass

them to John VK2RU for compilation into a There’s No Such Thing section.
Or if you have some intel about other team members...

or even yourself...

that’s worth sharing, please let me know cqgrsnet@gmail.com

Di-dah-di-dah-dit
Here we

So back to the CQQRS

Next Tuesday’s

Slow CW QSO

go.

practice net.

Net

Our CQQRS

Group will be on as always on Tuesday from around 0700z until

about 1300z;

see https://bit.ly/COORSWebsite and navigate to the Net

Details page for details.

Ninter Tir
Coordinated Universal Time
(Note - 20m

DXneriments

mav start at 06002

if conditions reauire)

0700z to 1300z

yoctct

Australia

Western Australia Time

UTC +8 Hours

1500 to 2100

Central Australian Time

UTC + 9.5 Hours

1630 to 2230

Eastern Australian Time

UTC + 10 Hours

1700 to 2300

Queensland Time

UTC + 10 Hours

1700 to 2300

NZ Time

UTC + 12 Hours

1900 to 0100

New Zealand

0600z to 0900z

20m

14039-14051kHz

Note - 20m times and frequencies will be allocated by Mike DL3YZ prior to the net.
40m
0700z to 1300z

| ee

80m

SSSSKHZ

160m

Wednesday (VK/ZL)

- TOSON
- S560kHZ

,
|

1855kHz

22002 - 2300z

Post Morsum

WA FM AllStar Network

Callback

(connect direct to AllStar Node 42482 or use
Echolink to connect to VK2KI-L)

Doesn't matter whether you’re brand new and want to try just exchanging
callsigns and RST reports, or you’re ready for a good old rag chew.

We'll

have fun.
There's usually people around until after 1300z - so keep calling in the
segment of the band designated
someone.

in the table below until you catch

| should be on as usual from home

in NSW or via the Remote at

Bedfordale WA, and I'll also be watching the proceedings using the VK6QS
and Tecsun SDRs in WA and NSW

respectively.

Hope to hear you there.

Reports
Please let us know via our Reports form bit.ly/COORSNET who you work or
hear on Tuesday’s Group.

The report form closes at lunchtime (Eastern

Australian time) on Thursday.
And by the way, a reminder;

if you send me any information by email, our

report form or WhatsApp - unless you specifically state that material is not
to be published, I'll assume that you're happy to see your thoughts in the
RagChew

Post

newsletter.

Morsum

Richard VK6HRC

will run our phone Post Morsum

on the South West AllStar

net (via repeaters and hotspots all over WA) from 0600 WA time, then from
0700 WA time on 80m

(3605 LSB).

See https://bit.ly/COORSWebsite and

navigate to the Net Details page for details of how you can connect via
Echolink or even possibly via your local FM repeater.

Articles
The newsletter is interesting to readers because of the material
contributed by so many people - be it the reports each week or the various
articles.

Could you write a short article or articles for RagChew?

Writing not your strong point?
much

or as little as needed.

You bet!

Don’t worry, I'm very happy to help as

Here’s a thought - although our readers will much
perhaps have a go at using a Large Language

prefer your own writing,

Model Artificial Intelligence

tool such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini to check your
writing or even to actually draft the whole article in a relaxed easy-to-read
manner!

You can find out more about how to do that on the Newsletter

page on our website bit.lv/COORSWebsite.
suitable prompt (the command

Our website also includes a

you feed to the Al to make

it do what you

want).

Please remember though - you must fact-check anything that an Al tool
drafts for you because Als ‘hallucinate’ - ie if an Al can’t find what you’re
looking for, it will make up an answer and present it as a fact!

This is one

of the dangers of using Als - it’s quite probable that the tool will create a
very readable and convincing draft that is 100% wrong!
submitter are responsible for fact-checking.

You as the

But it’s a learning experience

- please let us know how you went if you had a go with this new generation
of tool.
And by the way - | am very concerned

about our future in a world of Al -

but I’m pleased to see that school and university curriculums now focus on
understanding the risks - for instance, kids are now learning critical
thinking something that used to be taught mostly at post-graduate level.
When the typewriter was invented,
handwriting;

when the word

people predicted the downfall of

processor was invented, the art of writing was

thought to be on the way out - ditto for the spreadsheet and arithmetic,
AM, SSB and FT-8 for amateur radio etc.

We can ignore Al and hope that it

just goes away... or we can learn to handle it through experimentation

and

use.
For more guidance on writing for the RagChew

newsletter (including help

with using an Al), head to our website bit.ly/COORSWebsite then click the
menu

on the top right and then click RagChew Newsletter.

Teamwork
Thank you so much to our team of 35 contributors:
G7BED,

DL/MONNK,

DL3YZ,

MOKB], VK2GAS, VK2IOW, VK2KJJ, VK2RU, VK2TIG, VK2WP, VK3BTV,

VK3BWN,

VK3DRQ,

VK5KDO,

VK5KFG, VK6BEK, VK6GX, VK6HRC,

VK3ECH,

VK3KEV, VK3KLE, VK3QB, VK3 WOW,

VK6NW,

VK6PZT, VK6WE, VK7JZ, VK7TA, VK7TO, ZL3TK and ZL4CTS.

special thank you to our editorial team, Nigel G4RWI
development),

Patrick VK2IOW

Anda

(head of software

(reports coordinator), John VK2RU

(researcher and head-copyer) and Richard VK6HRC
head of hamfest marketing).

VK4PN,

VK6KD, VK6NQL, VKO6IS,

(Post Morsition and

Great work all!

€U CW on Tuesday,

Mark Bosma
VK2KI / VK6QI

Beautiful South Bowning NSW
mark.bosma@icloud.com
non impediti ratione cogitationis

TELEGRAPHIC
Dick

at
do

AMBIDESTRY.

Tohnson,
Manager
of
RCA's
Marine
Division
gave
me my
first
RO
job
avoar«
5 n Francisco
S
ine,
WML,
in
1925,
I never
saw
him
it,
(others
claim
they
had)
but
he
allegecTao

eand

«a

moecanao

with

hrt

annie

eimiul

tem

col Tot hed

oye

Wt a

eit

ce ee

anously — using American Morse with one, and
Continental
Morse with the other hand, Frank

Fisher
of Lankin,
Texas,
it
because
of a personal

town

near

sending

the name).
He
window waiting
tor

says
he
doesn't
doubt
experience
he witnessed

Salinas,

Kansas

says "I was
for a train

bunch

manifests.

watching and listening
he
wire,
Without pausing
in
right hand,
he opened the

left
hand,
picked
up

{he's

forgotten

standing by the ticket
watch the agent-ope~aWhile

was

was called on another
his sending with his
calling wire with his

acknowledged,
and
closed
the
key,
message
blank,
slipped
it
in
his

typewriter,
rolled it into position and proceeoced to copy that message with one long bony finger
of h’s left hand all
the time continuing
to send
the manifests with his right
hand,

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Thanks once again to John VK2RU

for yet another interesting snippet to round out our newsletter
this week.

About

the CQ

Here’s where
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and

QRS

Net

you'll find the details.

information

about the CQORS

net,

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https://bit.ly/CQQRSWebsite

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