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Reports from Tuesday’s
Mike’s

Dr Donald’s
Post

CQQRS

Net

Mate the Dormouse
New

Diagnosis

Method

Morsum

PC Maintenance
Amateur

Radio and the Falkland

Head-Copy Practice
Slow CW Frequencies
CQQRS
KPH

Hand-Out

Cards

Delivers the Goods Again

Another

Enigmaphile

A Nice Little Parable

Islands

Invasion

e Amateur

Radio CW

Morse Training

Morse

Portable

with a Purpose
in My

e Watchable
e

in WWII

Net
Society

Back Yard?

Code

Shorts

Di-dah-di-dah-dit

e About the CQ QRS

Group

Another really fun CQQRS

Slow CW

Practice QSO

net on Tuesday - with odd

and interesting conditions all-round.... along with a smattering of Springtime static crashes to add to the mix.
| really enjoyed reading the reports submitted

by our participants again

this week - and in particular, it’s really pleasing to see the number of
people that took the time to report their thoughts on the night / morning’s
fun and frustrations;

these reports make

itself so interesting to our participants.

both the newsletter and the net
Thank you one and all for taking

the trouble to pen your thoughts again.
We also have a bunch of other interesting reading ahead submitted
many of our team

members

- | hope you'll have time to scan through and

even enjoy the read if you have time.
coming.

Thanks team - please keep them

Got some thoughts, but think you can’t write well?

to the test!

See Rag-Chew Articles below for some options.

Masthead

Image

What the?

Let’s put that

You may have read about Mike DL3YZ’s challenges to put up

gain antennas at home,
from the neighbours.

in a way that doesn’t attract too much

Well take a look at his latest creation!

to not love about that | ask myself!
What is it you ask?
diamond

by so

interest

What’s there

Heh heh!

If you look closely, you'll see it’s a two-element

quad - made for 15m.

To quote Mike:“Dr Frankensteins rhapsody

of duct tape, insulation pipes and old, left over copper wire.

| pointed it to

Australia, and even hit the left part of it, Japan es New Zealand

:-) Not too

bad for a total cost of 40 euros”.

New

Team

Members

Welcome this week to Rodger VK3DXC
from New Zealand;
the Slow CW

welcome

Practice QSO

who recently moved to West Melton

Rodger and | hope you can join us soon on

net.

Reports
After next Tuesday’s Group, please send me a
or who you heard using our web form here:

bit.ly/COORSNET

list of who you worked and /

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

non impediti ratione cogitationis

Reports

& Comments

Here’s this week’s

Last Tuesday’s

Group

Here’s the 60 stations heard by 37 members
CQQRS Team

Mamber

CQ
Heard 15m
Worked 20m
Heard on air
Heard on air
Heard 40m
Worked 20m
Worked 40m
Worked 80m
Worked 20m
Heard 20m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard 80m
Heard 40m
Heard on air
Worked 20m
Heard 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m

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

reports.

Qso 1

QSO 2

Qso 3

Qso4

of our team on Tuesday:

qQso5

QSO6

QsO7

asos

VKSKLE

Heard on air

VK3KO

Heard on air

VK3TBR

Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard 80m
Tried 15m
Worked 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 40m

Worked 40m

VK2GR

ZL3TK

VK3ECH

Heard 20m

DL3YZ

VK3KLE

VK4PN

Heard 40m

VK6GX

VK6Ql

VK6FN

VK7TO

Tried 40m

VK6QI

VK3JFR

VK3TBR |

VK2IOW

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

Heard on air
Heard on air

VK3JFR | VKSAOC |

VKENW |

VK3DRQ

Heard 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard on air
Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Heard on air
Tried 15m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Tried 80m
Heard 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m

Worked 40m | VK2ASB
Worked 80m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard on air
Worked 40m
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
us by Patrick VK2IOW;

reports have been compiled for

thanks Patrick.

From Mike DL3YZ at Stuttgart
{20 m]
Thie

winal

Liane

nit

tha

mandaaice

anain

vwieitina

tha

cita

mis

innal

radin

aliik

hit

HN WGGR 1 Wao VULNS

HIGaUUWe ayall, ViolY WIG ONG UI iy Wear rauiu UUW, UL

there's not too many left of the old glory.

Think

most visitors of the hut these days have four
little feet, sharp little teeth and a furry tail.
Meet the radio dormouse ;-)
Think their population in the hut exceeds the
number of human members in the club.
| wanted to try operating the beam again, to see differences between antennas. |
measured my signal S5 in Ironstone. Condx (SFU) were a

little weaker than last

week, so the beam was helping. | had some nice QSOs on 20m, great signals of all
stations here, all easy to copy. Only QRM
switched to the 15m

here was the noise of the fridge. Then |

band, but couldn’t find my signal on the waterfall in Ironstone. |

even had problems to be heard by any RBN station at all. | checked the antenna, and
all was fine. Condx are mysterious at times. Seems they have switched that band off
for maintenance today HI. | heard Wayne - VK6NW calling me on the SDR, but no
signal up here as well... sorry Wayne, let’s hope for better times next week.

Greetings from Germany - Mike.
[Interesting about the dormice Mike;

we don't have them up here in Australasia.

Perhaps you can tell us more about the club in a later newsletter too?]

From

Stan ZL3TK

at Waitarere Beach
[40m]

B was similar, nothing heard until after 0915Z then

signals began to appear but were suffering from deep

VK5CZ,

decided to watch a YouTube doco.

It was made

by the inimitable Geoff

Marshall as he rode the spectacular Settle and Carlisle line up the spine of UK ona
warm summer day in June.
D S ebDe

ne eb

https:/Awww.youtube.com/watch?v=DGbtl3iSWBI
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eh

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IR A

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MIQNY

FECOMMeEnged

lO OSE

IMLEresled

IM JOINING

WIOTSe

WILT]

a FUrPOSEe

OOCIELy:

qv.

From John VK5ET at Hope Valley
[40m]
Much noise & QSB. Some signals way down in noise,
difficult to copy.

[80m]

No stations heard, only noise but not as bad as 40m or

20m. Switched off early.

BEETel~

From Wayne VK6NW at Bridgetown
[40m]

« Busselton

East coast stations appeared through the
mist early evening. it was nice to chat with
Manny VKSDRQ for a while

«Margaret River

[80m]
| changed to the dipole for 80m and it
seemed to work well.

From Donald VK6JDM

at 20km west of Esperance

[40m]
Lots of deep QSB on 40 and 80. Local conditions were quiet but heard some others
complaining of lots of static crashes.

Heard lots of stations and was able to copy about 50% of what
was being sent. Did not manage to get heard by anyone or

rather got no reply to CQs which of course may actually mean

| was heard but no one wanted to play.
It was good practice and | am slowly improving in my
receiving. | saw the graph of how fast servicemen learnt the
code in the past - | take the graph as either proof that there is
a void in my head where Morse is processed OR as proof that

Mobile ops

the Yanks were producing disinformation way back then. Of

course the truth may be worse, it may be that | have a void in the brain where Morse
is processed AND the Yanks were producing disinformation back then.
ET

From David VK6KD at Ballajura WA

[40m]
Lots of QSB on 40m.

Stations heard, here one minute, gone the next. As the night

went on, the band got quieter.
[80m]
Nothing much on the waterfall display.

Heard Wayne calling VAG6NW with a very

strong sig so decided to pick up our QSO where we left on 40m.
on 80m.

Much better copy

TU Wayne.

From Sava VK4PN at Mount Ommaney Brisbane

Soe

cae

[20]
at

an ON 4 hit lata arniimd

48:-3N and

scanned the QRS segment for our EU
friends, heard nothing. Decided to call a few

CQs just to see where | was picked up by the

reverse beacon net. Very promising a lot of
spots in EU, North America and West Africa.

A Croatian station responded to my CQ, pretty good signal around S6. | was
surprised when he told me he was using just 50W and a dipole! His QTH was Split,
an ancient port in Dalmatia of which | have very fond memories. During school
summer break the family used to travel by train to Split to catch a boat (old steamers)
to sail to one of Adriatic islands for summer holidays. Split is a fascinating old city,
council chambers are in a building built by Romans (Emperor Diocletian was born in
Split). He built a huge palace which is still in good condition. | wonder how many of
our palaces will be standing 2000 years from now.
While | was in a QSO with 9A4CU, HB9FNN kept calling me, so after finishing with
the Croatian | had a QSO with the Swiss as well. | must have been close to DL3YZs
frequency as | kept hearing him at a very high pitch (lucky | did not use my CW filter).
| called Mike and he came back with a good S7, QSO was brief as he needed to
change to 15m at 17:00 hrs.
Scanned 15m QRS segment looking for Mike but couldn't hear anything. Checked
the FT8 segment, wall to wall JA and East Asians, only a few feeble EU stations so
obviously 15m was out for our low power QRS EU friends
[40m]
Very unusual conditions on 40m this evening, first a lot of noise and frequent bursts
of QRN almost impossible to dig out weak signals. After moving to 40 from 20 at
around 17:00 hrs | heard nothing on my RX or on Araluen SDR. After calling few CQ
just to see where | was heard on the reverse beacon net | gave up. | was definitely
getting out to ZL, Fiji, WA and southern states but no takers.
On return at around 20:00hrs conditions were much better, so | managed few lengthy

QSOs all affected

by QRN and fading. QSO with VK7GY was particularly

troublesome. We started at S9 both ways than Gerry faded slowly out to nothing. |

responded at a time | thought

he would have finished his over. After | finished my

over he came back at S9.
While listening to Gerry's last over | could copy K1JD a kHz or so away from our

frequency. | had QSOs with K1JD in the past (prior to FT8 take over) so | called him
and he came back S9 both ways! We chatted for a while reminiscing of good old CW
times and he never faded once throughout a 10 min QSO. So you have it smooth to
New Mexico and trouble to good old Tassie!
[80m]
Most frustrating band, no luck at all. Spent almost an hour calling CQ and not a
single QSO! There were couple of traces on the Ironside SDR

(I think VK2KI,

VK2IOW and VK3DRQ ) but all were involved in marathon QSOs so | had no option
but to call CQ and hope. | could see my trace on the Ironside SDR but boy the
waterfall was ugly noise level was off the limit. On the reverse beacon net | could see
that | was being heard in ZL, Southern states, Fiji and WA so | was getting out, but

QRN and noise must have scared our QRS folk off.

From

lan VK5CZ

at Clare

[40m]

QRT thunderstorm came along.

From

lan VK7TA

at Latrobe

[40m]
| only managed an hour between about 6 and 7 and didn't
hear many stations. Apologies to Edward for being slow in
getting his call right, VK1AAK, the K at the end was
confusing me.

From Craig VK3CLD at Alexandra, Victoria

eon

anes
See eee
So

Very marginal CONDX with constant
static crashes.

From Greg VK5KFG at Willunga

a
f

[80m]

After saying hi to Andy and the others on the Boat
®

Anchor Net, | tuned into our QRS

net but very

Baa strong static crashes at this QTH made CW a
challenge.

From Manny VK3DRQ at Blackburn
[20m]

| try calling OM Chris G7BED as soon as he
started but no luck, he only copied VK3??? so |
waited towards the end of his time, called again

and this time | was lucky. A QSO was had.
Thanks OM Chris for the effort.
40m]

Noise Canceller

Great Surprises! First | was copying OM Pat VK2IOW 592 + 20 and in about 8
minutes he faded away almost completely! QNP. At the same time W8SMF OM Lee

was getting into Blackburn at RSN 592. We had a nice QSO. This must be my very

first 40m QSO to that part of the world. On the same frequency OM Mait VK5AO was
592 +20.

The joys of the Hertzian waves.

From

Keiran VK3BTV

Umass ——
XN

at Lilydale, Victoria

Sle Craigieburn a | 7
|
Hf

See

Cit

See ‘Melbourne ~

4 "Dandenong
1 RN

From Arthur VK2ASB

[40m]
40 was pretty quiet here earlier in the night. Noticeable

QSB.

80 was very noisy tonight - crashes well over the 9.

at Wentworth

Falls NSW

[40m]

=
Medlow

At my QTH the noise was $7. Not many stations on the air.

rein

Katoomba

From Patrick VK2IOW between Bathurst and Orange
[20m]
s At 4:30 pm local time | listened for Mike, DL3YZ on 20m.

had 3 VK QSOs during the half hour.

| was using my large

| loop, wire antenna rather than my Yagi (wound down
because of possible thunderstorms). Mike had a good
signal, about RST 559, though it seemed to go down a little
to about 539 over the 30 minutes. Then Mike switched to
15m and his signal dropped to about RST 319
to QSO.

| switched back to 20m to listen for Chris, G7BED.

so | did not try

He was booming

in at

about RST 569.

We had a QSO and | was surprised that he gave me RST 579 on

my wire antenna.

We were both using 100 watts and he was on his usual fan dipole.

[40m]
The band was very noisy with thunderstorms West of my QTH.
kHz.

| called CQ on 7020

| decided to use this frequency, since | wanted to do some straight key practice.

I’m not that good on a straight key and strangely | also find it difficult to send slower
than about 15 wom. | had a reply from K6TOP near San Francisco. He had 500
watts and a dipole. Then Manny, VK3DRQ answered my CQ, however the
ionosphere thinned abruptly in the middle of our QSO and we could no longer copy

each other. Then W8SMF from Florida called. He had 500 watts and a 2 el yagi.
heard Jim, VK7JZ and Tim, VK3TBR

they could no longer hear each other.

chatting until the ionosphere struck again and

| called Jim and we had a QSO.

[80m]
Before going QRT | tried 80m.

It was as noisy or even more noisy than 40m.

| sent a

Whatsapp message that | would try 3535 kHz and Jim, VK7JZ came back for a short

2nd QSO.

Finally | had a QSO with Mark, VK2KI whose strong signal was mostly

above the static crashes.

From your editor Mark VK6QI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW via the VK6SR
Remote HF station at Jandakot and the VK5PH KiwiSDRs at Ironstone Range.
[15m]

| listened-out for Mike DL3YZ on 15m using both the ubiquitous KiwiSDR network at
the Ironstone Range property of CQQRS family member Paul VK5PH; thanks again
for the terrific system Paul. | also tried calling from the VK6SR Remote HF station at
Jandakot South of Perth;

absolutely no sign of Mike was the stern response from

both.
[40m]

| returned to the Southern Electronics

_—_£

Group Remote a bit later, and aftera
wes

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Wwe.

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few plaintive CQs, hooked up with = j*
Phil VK6GX at Gidgegannup. There

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was some very interesting slow and

deep QSB on Phil's signal overthe = »*
30-40km path;

we figured that

perhaps it was the existing ground

1, GROUND WAVE
2. SPORADIC-E-LAYER, SINGLE-HOP
3, F-LAYER DUCTING
4, F-LAYER, MULTIHOP
5. D-LAYER ABSORPTION
6. NEAR VERTICAL INCIDENCE SKY WAVE
7, SEYWAVE, NO-HOP

wave signal mixing with emerging Near-Vertical Incidence Skywave as the sun set on
the ionosphere in the West?
[80m]

Later | heard Patrick VK2IOW signing with James VK7JZ - both Readable 5, so |
popped my callsign in after the dit-dits.
more!

Silence!

Boo-hoo - they don't love me any

Well actually, there's more to it. When | posted my tears on the CQQRS WhatsApp
Alerts group, Patrick headed back down to the frequency, but James had pulled the
pin, claiming that his brain was fried.

As it turned out, we had a return of the one-way propagation that I've noticed often in
the past on the East-West 80m path (there's discussion in previous years' RagChews
from various experts about possible causes of the phenomenon) - | could hear the
Eastern-States' signals (including my own home station), but the signals coming the
other way were nothing short of challenging. Patrick just couldn't pull my signals out
of the static crashes (strangely, the static crashes weren't audible here, only 150km
South - see previous RagChews for discussion about static crash propagation as
well, and how it sometimes appears to be different to normal propagation). So |
swapped keys and continued the QSO with Patrick from my home station instead.
Half an hour later | repeated the test with Manny VK3DRQ;

Manny was RSN 572

into WA, but struggled to report RSN 322 the other way.
The VK6SR Southern Electronics Group Remote station continues to work nicely,
with no return of the previous antenna coupling gremlins.

Also from your editor, Mark VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW

[15m]
The mind was willing, but the TS-120S wasn't
(another fun little fault-finding job to add to the pile fix the old Kenwood which refuses to operate
above 20m! Or, plan B, replace the ALC system
transistors in my beautiful little Kenwood TS-50.

[20m]
Mike DL3YZ was coming through nicely RSN 531 from his radio club's Yagi antenna
at Stuttgart, and he gave me RST 539 in return.

| then slipped down to where Chris

G7BED was calling from Northampton North of London.

Chris was having more

trouble than Mike, and it took a number of calls before he made out my callsign;

sent RSN 411 and Chris responded with RST 339. Perhaps my antenna had fallen
down, because | saw later on our CQQRS WhatsApp groups that Chris had worked
others, including Patrick VK2IOW at Millthorpe (150km North of me) and David
VK3DBD at Yakandandah (about 200km South West) who were both booming-in to
the UK, despite Patrick using a 2-wavelengths per side wire loop antenna (instead of
his HF Yagi).
[40m]
| didn't get much time to listen on 40m this time - 20m DXperiment -> dinner -> 80m

do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

However, in passing | heard lan VK7TA chatting

to Nick VK1AA (a new callsign for me) and later as the band struggled to open to the
West, Wayne VK6NW chatting to Manny VK3DRQ.
[80m]
After dinner, | had nice chats to Patrick VK2IOW and Manny VK3DRQ, after giving up
on trying to work them from the Remote HF station in WA. An early start on
Wednesday saw me retire early to places warmer and even more friendly this week.

From Peter VK6NQL

/ VK6IS at Wundowie

[40m]
Lots of stations were around later on, but the noise level was

up by then.
[80m]
Still need some more WA based activity on this band.

From Roy VK6RR at Geraldton
[40m]
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From Jim Semmens VK7JZ at Hobart
[40m]

. This week | had an absolute blast, participating
in five QSOs with four on 40 meters and one on
80 meters.

The night started out with indecision, do | go
brave the cold hunting for a park with lower noise
than my QTH and run around with a head torch
on, or do | stay home, warm, and just accept whatever the local noise in my shack is
- in the end | folded and took the soft option staying at home.
My first QSO on 40 meters was with Arthur VK2ASB where | explained | was new
and he later sent me some drill sheets to practice.
who is always encouraging, then Tim VK3TBR.

Then a QSO with James VK3JFR

My 40 meter QSO of the night was with Pat VK2IOW in rural VK2 and | was on 10w.
| was thrilled to copy well enough that he was on a SMALL FARM with ALP?C?S and
CATTLE. Reviewing my notes | thought looks like ALPACAS but then doubted
myself and thought my copy was off. When checking Pat's QRZ page there they
were ALPACAS keeping the grass neat and tidy around Pat's antenna.
Was a thrill to be think | am finally starting to get it. Much appreciation to all the CW
Ops out there who have been patient with me for months. ps This is not an invitation
to QRQ, yes | understand that Mark VK2KI will QRQ me at our next QSO just the

same but it's OK, being pushed is helpful. Final QSO for the night was Pat VK2IOW
again briefly 80m and 100w.
Thanks CQ QRS group for a really fun evening.

TAT AV AV AV AV AV AY AV AYAYAY AV AY AY,

Post Morsum-19'h September 2025
from Richard VK6HRC
Seven checked in on the South West repeater and AllStar/Echolink hub.

VK6KD

David

VK6NW
Wayne
VKSET
John
VK6QI = Mark
VK6HRC

David monitored 40m where it was very quiet so he changed over to 80m and
caught up with Wayne VK6NW.
Wayne monitored 20m and was not hearing anything so logged onto a local

SDR which was not any better then on to the Ironstone Range SDR in VK5 with
better results there hearing Mike DL3YZ and Mark VK2KI. On 80 m he worked
David VK6KD and Richard VK6PZT. He was also switching between his vertical
antenna and the dipole during the evening for optimum operation.

John toughed it out on noisy 40m working three stations then on to 80m but no
contacts there so pulled the big switch.

Mark caught up with Mike DL8YZ on 20m then Chris G7BED who was struggling
with Mark's measily signal;
nals this time.

Mike was doing well at his end receiving better sig-

Then on to the SR remote in Perth to work Phil VK6GX in Gidge-

gannup on 40m where QSB was evident over that short distance, even had time
to send alerts on WhatsApp !
| was only on for a while monitoring 8@m and heard Donald VK6JDM calling
so | responded a couple of times but he was not hearing me. Hopefully he did
better than | did! Thank you to all on last night and this morning.
73

Richard VK6HRC

ps Just caught up with young Max VK6FN he had a great session with Phil

VK6GX on 40m but had to QRT and go entertain his visitors.

[Thank you once again Richard.
Would you like to join in on our fun callback on Wednesday morning?
off at 6am

and lam in Europe/UK,
connect,

Kicks

WA time, 7:30 SA time, 8am in the East, 10am in New Zealand
and everyone will be made

very welcome.

use Echolink to connect to VK2KI-L, and you'll be there - drive

away, nothing more to pay.]

On
PC
From

My Workbench

Maintenance
Patrick VK2IOW

After having the hard drive crash this week I'm wondering whether there is
anything

| can do to take better care of the PC - computer care and

hygiene.

So! asked ChatGPT.

It recommended

the following:

Monthly PC Maintenance Checklist
@ Weekly Quick Tasks (5-10 minutes)
Restart your PC (don’t just sleep it).
Check Task Manager — disable unnecessary startup apps.
Run Windows Security Quick Scan.
Delete junk/temp files (use %temp%, Disk Cleanup, or Storage Sense).

@ Monthly Deep Maintenance (~30 minutes)
Run Windows Update.
Run Malwarebytes Free (Full Scan).
Check drive health with CrystalDiskInfo.
Check temperatures with HWMonitor or Speccy.
Run System File Check: sfc /scannow (and DISM if needed).
Clean browser cache and remove unused extensions.
Backup important files (external drive or cloud).

@ Quarterly Tasks (Every 3 Months)
+
»
«

Uninstall unused software (Settings — Apps).
Defrag HDDs (skip if you have only SSDs).
Run Windows Troubleshooters (Settings — Troubleshoot).

@ Yearly Tasks
+
»
»

Clean dust inside PC/laptop with compressed air.
Replace thermal paste if system is 3+ years old and overheating.
Check laptop battery health (powercfg /batteryreport).

If | try to follow any of these | would

have a bit of learning to do.

Patrick

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
email to

know;

cgqrsnet@gmail.com

For guidance on writing for RagChew,

see Articles below.

QRZ?
Who’s
Amateur
From

calling

Radio

and

me?
the

Who’s

Falkland

on the other end?
Islands

Invasion

Chris G7BED

lam of a certain age, that | was a teenager during the Falkland Islands
invasion back in 1982. | remember

it vividly, rushing home from school to

turn on the news to find out what had happened that day. Remember,

this

was before the age of mobile phones, and online 24 hour news. It was
either radio or TV back then

:-).

Well, | guess most of you Know the story of the war, but if you don’t, and
have an hour or so to spare, have a listen to the following RSGB

news cast,

and the story as told by a certain Lauri Margolis, a BBC reporter (who has
only just retired from the BBC) and a radio ham.

Put it this way, it sounds

like if it wasn’t for amateur radio, the UK Foreign Office wouldn't really
have known what the hell was actually going on down there ...
httos://rsqb.org/main/blog/tonight-at-eight-archive/2022/04/04/4-april2022-breaking-the-big-story-when-amateur-radio-was-the-only-way-bylaurie-margolis-g3uml/

Fast forward a few years to 2022, when

| started volunteering at the

National Radio Centre (NRC) at Bletchley Park. A few weeks
worked

prior, | had

my first VP contact on HF, a guy called Bob Mcleod (VP8LP). Whilst

| was chuffed to bits that I’d finally got the Falklands in my log, | thought
nothing more about it. Until one day, | find myself standing in front of this
display in the NRC.

The VP8LP station | had been
talking too, was the very same
guy who had shared the news of
an Argentine invasion with the
BBC and Lauri Margolis way back
in 1982. And that Laurie’s radio

160 meters to 10

was now only display in Bletchley
Park. What an interesting
coincidence!
There you go ... maybe

interesting diversion for some of
you.

If it is, | can share another

fascination Falkands War (radio)
story next time.

Thanks
Chris
G7BED

[Thanks Chris.

The FT-200 brings back memories - that was my first HF

transceiver... | even had it installed under the dashboard in my
(don’t turn the engine off when

first car

the all-valve transceiver was on!).

And

there were a few (ex-G) operators in Western Australia at the time who
used the KW Electronics gear that they had brought with them to the

colonies.

QRZ?
From

Terrific story - more?

Who’s

the

other

your editor Mark VK2KI

Yes please!]

end?
/ VK6QI

Key to the success of our net is helping to make
people enjoy returning to each week.

it a get-together that

But when you're on the key, it’s

really hard to find out a bit more about the person you're chatting to.
I’m really keen to share the backgrounds of some of our team
it’s really nice to Know who’s on the other end of the QSO.

members

How did they

come to amateur radio and when, and what on earth was the motivator
that got them
planned?

interested in CW?

How’s the journey been so far, and what’s

Perhaps, what they get out of the net and the newsletter, and

how it can be made

better?

Or like Chris, a bit of insight into their past?

So, would you be willing to share some thoughts about yourself?
Mark VK2KI know:
RagChew,

cgarsnet@gmail.com

Please let

For guidance on writing for

see Articles below.

Head
Compiled

Copy

Practice

on the track somewhere

This week we start Chapter 3 of Wind

by John VK2RU

in the Willows - The Wild Wood.

Because of MailChimp’s size limits, I’ve had to split the remaining Chapter
3 audio into three parts. Each part is over 1 hour playing time @ 12 wom.
If you'd like the full chapter in a single file, you can use the complete text
of Chapter 3 which is attached
Ebook2CW

below, and convert it yourself with the

app - httpos://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’// becomes
This week’s

we wilh.

attachments

include:

e Three MP3 files (first section of Chapter 3)
e Three text files matching the MP3 segments
e One text file with all of Chapter 3

The Wiel, w the
Wows

ligatin 3

The Wile Meet

You can either play the MP3 files in any media
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,

Other
Other things we’ve

1.5x, 1.75x).

News

received

from

our 220-plus

readers.

Slow CW

Frequencies

From Nic VK7WW
Some time ago | thought about sitting on a 15m CW USA novice fx whilst
I’m doing something

in the shack...for a couple of hours... and if a slow or

wobbly Novice comes up, I’d be more than happy to have a contact with
them.

The VK-QRP Club have designated
fxs for QRP on several bands
(1.815; 3.530, 7.028, 10.106,
14.060, 21.060, 28.060), but
there seems to have been very
little interest. I’ve called on their
fxs many times, but not one club
member came

back; but non

members

back, so other

came

Ops do monitor them.
The point is .... would

it be worthwhile having a designated slow/learning

CW fx on each band, which we could leave our rigs sitting on as we potter
in our shacks? That way any learners may feel more comfortable knowing
they have someone

understanding

‘at the other end’. This doesn’t have to

be on QRS nights, but at any time. I’m thinking 40 and 20m; and 15m

condx are good (15m especially for USA novice ops).
| wonder if any other countries still have CW-only Novice license ops?

Does

anyone know?
Cheers

es 73

Nic
VK7WW

[Thanks Nic;

terrific suggestion.

We currently have 7032kHz, 3555khz and

1855kHz as designated landing frequencies during the net - and | know
some people listen there by default at other times.
/ specifically picked 7032kHz because it’s a popular VKFF PARKS and SOTA
CW frequency in Australasia;

in the Eastern States, listening out on 7032

during the day (especially on weekends in Spring-Summer/Autumn)

will

usually (or at least often) provide opportunities to exchange reports with
portable stations who pop up there.

That’s how! came back to CW in

recent years - listening on 7032kHz with my TS-50 muted.
So perhaps by default,

we might designate other listening frequencies for

30m, 20m,

12m,

17m,

15m,

10m and 6m?

Question is, should we use the

SOTA frequencies like 14062kHz (again because It’s where you're likely to
hear QRS around here), or the VK-QRP Club frequencies?

| defer to those

who listen around more than me (that would be just about everyone!);
where are we likely to hear most QRS activity?
And by the way - some

will say

don’t clutter up the SOTA
frequency of 7032kHz.

| picked

the frequency for our net knowing
that 360/365 days of the year,
there’s no after-hours SOTA/Parks
activity there at night.

And SOTA

/ VKFF Parks operators are quite
guite used to discovering that there’s other operators on 7032 when they
get on air - so sliding up or down Is easy - very few use crystal-locked
transmitters these days.

| suspect that most will be happy knowing that

we’re promoting QRS exchanges or rag-chews - and very few will have
noses out of joint to find there’s a natter going on on 7032kHz,
Suggestions from readers about listening frequencies please?
cggrsnet@qmail.com And does anyone know of countries that still have
CW-only license classes?

Wouldn't that be great for CW in our world where

our amateur bands have become a bit like an extension of our dearly loved
but now lost 11m band?

| know, showing my (normally well-disguised)

grumpy old man side!]

CQORS
From

Hand-Out

Richard

Cards

VK6HRC

Richard VK6HRC

has made

up a sheet of hand-out cards to be cut up and

either kept in your wallet for when you're telling someone
CQQRS

Slow CW Practice QSO

net, or handed

about the

out at your local hamfest or

club meeting.

They’re available here for downloading.

You could if you

wish also use the template for something for the back - no responsibility
for getting the orientation correct in your printer though!
Download

KPH

the Word

Delivers the Goods ... Again!

file here.

From Stan ZL3TK

continued

Did anyone decrypt the Enigma message received from KPH, the one for 2025
shown in last week’s RagChew?
Despite the seven-day interval, my invitation
to decrypt it for yourselves has borne no fruit, nonetheless, as promised, my
decrypt is here this week.

The same deadly-silence typical of ‘bearing no fruit’, came from the opportunity
to discover why the Enigma message, even without decrypting, can be seen as
historically impossible. Did anyone spot it but not document their findings?
Second things first. The message is dated 27 May 1939, produces an
interesting conflict with the historical facts. Why? Because Adolph didn't begin,
or even mention Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seeldéwe) until 16 July
1940.

His plan first appeared as a directive ordering preparations to begin for

the invasion, with the specific code name assigned only at that time.
Prior to
July 1940, he had been hoping Great Britain would negotiate peace after her

defeat in France, but with Churchill's determination to continue the war, Hitler
eventually decided to proceed with his invasion plan. Our friend at KPH, Kevin

McGrath K6TOP, agrees with that interpretation.

First things second. Decryption using the somewhat clunky simulator
recommended by KPH went perfectly, albeit rather slowly, whereas Dirk
Rijmenants’ splendid simulator downloadable from the Enigma World Code

Group site delivered clear text very fast,

thanks to its copy-and-paste quick-

type function.
On the SAS

use formal

Net we

no reason not to this

time.

Here

is how

the Enigma decrypt
was submitted to
KPH

iudages
juages.

Feedback

:
liked

;
it.

| SAS NET

Enigmagrams, | saw

nigmagqraint

KAPT

HEADER

2312 MAY 27

MESSAGE

BEGIN PLANNING CROSS CHANNEL
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says they

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DETAIL

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Notice my typo? Apologies to Admiral Raeder.

so mea culpa.

120

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CODE WORD
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dan

| must have imagined two dots

There’s absolutely no excuse since | knew his name was spelled

incorrectly but failed to address the issue.
message text.

Fortunately it doesn’t affect the

After academic discussions and exchanging noises of mutual-admiration by
email, my certificate duly arrived. It is based on KPH’s proven boilerplate from
previous years with only the date changed.

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Please excuse my putting forward an antiquated notion, but this type of activity
breathes life back into ‘Morse with a Purpose’, just as in the days of yore when
there was only no-nonsense, functional, serious communication to be heard and
vacuous chatter was still a long way off. It is highly recommended to anyone
wanting to improve their CW skills to join the select group who take part in
KPH’s Enigma events. From KPH records, 141 certificates have been issued
globally for the 2025 event. Will you qualify to be on KPH’s mailing list after
their next epic Enigma transmission? Sure hope so.
73

de Stan

ZL3TK

Another

Enigmaphile

From Keiran VK3BTV
Hi Bozzie

Not sure if you would want to include this in the newsletter, but | received
a very pleasant email on Monday.
| finally got to have a crack at a KPH encryption challenge - it was worth
the early Sunday start time.

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This certificate is proudly presented to

Kevan 6 Biyh VIGBIY
Gan Francisco Radio, KPH,on Ltagust 80, 202.
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A Nice Little Parable or Moral Tale from

the 17th

Century

From Patrick VK2IOW
I'm not sure whether parable is quite the right word, but it seemed to sort
of fit.

The importance of science - parable or moral tale from the 17 century

The ill-fated Swedish warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628 when a light breeze
caused it to heel and plunge into the water, only 1,300 meters from departure. The root cause: King
Gustav insisted on adding a second gun deck despite shipbuilders’ warnings that the design compromised
stability.
The Vasa’s preservation in cold Baltic waters allowed it to survive largely intact. Today, it is on display ina
purpose-built museum in Stockholm harbour, drawing around 45 million visitors. The wreck stands as a
powertul historical lesson on the consequences of dismissing scientific advice.
One can draw a parallel between the Vasa’s fate and the modern-day erosion of scientific trust. Truth and
science are under attack. According to the authors of a 2025 study on global trust in science, the best
thing scientists can do to counter this is, is to engage with the public. “We recommend avoiding top-down
communication but encouraging public participation in genuine dialogue.”
One of the key lessons to disseminate to the public is that, actually, science does not ask for trust. “Nullius
in verba” is the motto of the British Royal Society, dating back to 1662. Translated as take “no one’s word
for it’, it emphasizes that scientific consensus emerges from rigorous scrutiny — not unquestioned authority.
Scientific consensus is also provisional, subject to change if new data emerges.
Launching a ship - or policy - without heeding scientific evidence is a recipe for disaster.

To read the rest of the article, click the link:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/06/what-does-a-sunkswedish-galleon-teach-us-about-the-perils-of-ignoring-science-take-noones-word-for-it
Patrick

Amateur
From

Radio

in WWII

Kim VK6KL

The Secret Ham

Radio Operators Who

Morse Training

Net

Our team

Nic VK7WW

member

every Wednesday

at 7pm

Helped Crack Enigma

runs an on-air Slow Morse training net

EDST on 3580 for 30 mins. He uses the callsign

of the Northern Tasmania Amateur Radio Club VK7TAZ

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anrir

Faam

laarnadnN

Marca

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on that net.

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mICGHily

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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 - 3580kKHz at 7pm
CQQRS

team

a aahi

Learn Morse Code - Slow Morse

you'll hear lots of the

that net.

Eastern

time every Wednesday;

Jordan VK3ACU

Course
Loe

has

CLL

Cy NCE]

een

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.

Ever thought of joining the 'Morse with a Purpose Society'?
From Stan ZL3TK

Here's your opportunity.
The Great British countryside has featured many times in such entertainment as ‘Last
of the Summer Wine', 'The Camomile Lawn', 'All Creatures Great and Small’,
‘Doctor Finlay's Casebook', 'Foyle's War' and of course 'Morse' (of the police
inspector variety).

In this instance, William Blake's ‘green and pleasant land' gives way in part to a more
mountainous, occasionally black environment where tunnels and viaducts, becks and
rivers, dales and fells, completely white in season punctuate the countryside. Believe
it or not, that very countryside is able to be enjoyed any time of year on a 1 hour, 39
minute train journey.

Yes, | refer to the iconic Settle to Carlisle railway which

narrowly escaped closure in the 1980s, and in July 2025 celebrated its 150th
anniversary since the first freight train pounded along it.

Read about this event focused on advancing the CW skills of thousands and
sponsored by the ‘Morse with a Purpose Society’, then commit to becoming a
member.
CW

Settle to Carlisle Railway Challenge

@ Ten weeks duration starting 21 September 25
@

73-miles through England's scenic countyside

@
@

Choose your own CW speed up to 25 wom
QRM and stress-free sound files both ways

@
@
®

Basic 250 points, with bonus points for live QTCs
Printable certificate issued to every participant
Infomation at bit.ly/cwstc

@ Enhance your CW skills and general knowledge
@ Other QTC sending options: live online or HF

73 de Stan

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From Mark VK2KI
Have you had any thoughts about a Portable in My Back Yard-type activity
to encourage

people to have a bit of fun while perhaps preparing their

portable gear for the Summer ahead?

Or perhaps, just drag your

transceiver and power supply out to the patio for a bit of fun in the sun?
I’m thinking of a weekend

day in early October.

the start of Daylight Saving?

Perhaps to commiserate

Any thoughts or support for the idea?

cqgrsnet@qmail.com
Dit-dit
Mark
VK2KI

/ VK6QI

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,

see Articles

Please email material to Mark VK2KI:

cqgrsnet@gmail.com

Watchable

Code

Shorts
Compiled

on the track somewhere

by John VK2RU

This week I’ve found a few YouTube Clips.
This first one has some advice from an experienced operator - what he
would do if he was starting over again.
httos://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OcvtbuLpbA&t=63s

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the QSO.

How easy does he make this look.

httos://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8EdOTSp0qgs

And finally, something from the other end of the spectrum - high speed
morse using a straight key.
httos://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0O

If you’ve read or watched

something that you think might be of interest to

our readers, please let me know so
and ideas.

John and | can share more thoughts

For guidance on writing for RagChew,

Please email material to Mark VK2KI:

see Articles below.

cqgqrsnet@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 hitps://bit.ly/COORSWebsite and navigate to the Net

Details page for details.

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 28 contributors:
VK2ASB, VK2IOW,

DL3YZ, G7BED,

VK2RU, VK3BTV, VK3CLD, VK3DRQ,

VK3ECH, VK3 WOW,

VK4PN, VK5AO, VK5CZ, VK5ET, VK5FD, VK5KFG, VK6HRC,
VK6KL, VK6NQL, VK6IS, VK6NW,
ZL3TK.

And a special thank you to our editorial team,

of software development),
John VK2RU

Patrick VK2IOW

and

Nigel G4RWI

(head

(our chief reports coordinator),

(Head-Copy magician and researcher) and Richard VK6HRC

(Post Morsition).

Great work all!

€U CW on Tuesday,

mb
Mark

VK6JDM, VK6KD,

VK6RR, VK7JZ, VK7TA, VK7WW,

Bosma

VK2KI / VK6QI
Beautiful South Bowning NSW
mark.bosma@icloud.com
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Fhotoms Museum

Communication

The set was found in the luggage of Werner Walthi, who
was arrested at the left-luggage office of Waverley
Station, Edinburgh,
in September 1940, by police officer
Willie Merrilees disguised as a railway porter.
Walthi
was tried at the Old Bailey, and was subsequently hanged
as a spy.
Mr Merrilees, who later became Chief Constable
of Lothian and Peebles, kept the set after the war, and
his widow has now donated it to the police museum.
The code used by the Germans was found in Walthi's
luggage, and decoy messages were transmitted to Germany
with the radio, giving false information on the movements of British shipping, resulting in a number of
U-boats being destroyed.
Harry has drawn out the circuits of the transmitter
and receiver, from which it can be seen that the tx is a
simple crystal-controlled single stager, and the rx is a
i-v-1 regenerative type.
Ferhaps someone with an interest in vintage circuits would like to try making these up?
If you do, let us know how you get on!

Thanks again to John VK2RU for yet another
interesting tail-end snippet.

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