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from Tuesday’s

Net

Stars
Bit

e Talk to Your GP via CW?
¢

Midnight

Band’s

e CW

Cleanup

Full and

Fire!

on the 2 Metre

Band

e Chordial
e

Head

Hop

Copy

Propagation

Practice

e Class License
e

Expiry - Continued

Morse Training

e Out-of-Hours

Net

QRS

e A New

Morserino

e Chris’

Excuse

Reverse

e CW

Frequencies

- Continued

Beacon

Woes

Settle to Carlisle Railway Challenge

e Antenna

Modelling

Prosign

of the Month

Di-dah-di-dah-dit

e About the CQ QRS

Group

Yet another sensational CQQRS

Slow CW

Practice QSO

net on Tuesday - at

least 41 of our QRS family were on air, working 65 different stations!
to read the positive report comments
much fun, some

(below) - so many people having so

reporting the bands on fire, some unable to find a quiet

frequency to call CQ, others hearing nothing!
fun?

| love

Isn’t radio communications

RSS

TO a more serious matter - | hear tell that one
of our most prolific family members Jordan
VK3ACU

came a cropper on his beloved

motorbike this week and was seriously injured!
Wishing you a quick and hopefully pain-free
recovery Jordan;

I’m sure | reflect the thoughts

of the brigade of team
worked

members

and helped on our net.

who you've
Hope we hear

you back on air and out portable again very
soon mate.
This week’s RagChew

newsletter is again just brimming with interesting

reading - once again a huge thank you to our barrage of contributors - and
again, | had to knock some

back to next week - what a great team - phew!

Thanks especially to Patrick VK2IOW,

with the assistance of Nigel G4RWI’s

software for assembling the reports that you'll read below.

Thanks also to

John VK2RU for building the head-copy exercises again this week, and to
Richard VK6HRC for running and reporting on the Wednesday

Post Morsum

call-back.
| had a quick skim through the YouTube video of the Yaesu
from George VK2AOE

(see below) this morning;

FT-101 re-build

George mentioned that he

used a little box called a TinySA - both a near DC-to-daylight spectrum
analyser and signal generator with a four-inch touch screen.

But

importantly, the signal generator had a calibrated output, so he could dial
up a 50 micro-Volt signal to check the S-meter calibration etc.
one on the spot!

| ordered

I'll send you the bill George!

One of this week’s articles by Ross MONNK explores a possible explanation
for the success of Long-Path

UK to Oceania

propagation - interesting new

ideas that I’m hoping will stimulate some discussion.

In another article,

ROSS Opens Up an Opportunity for us to re-establish CW on 2m - it used to
be a thing - but there’s very little activity these days, outside of the
occasional contest and field day.
(and even VKFF PARKS) team

But what if we had some of our SOTA

investigate these tiny transceivers, that with

a firmware change could replace the usual 2m / 70cm
many activators carry already.

hand-helds that

Thank you Ross - we might start a

movement!
Oh, and speaking of portable ops, below John VK2RU
easy-to-use portable antenna

reminds us about an

modelling website - simulation adds an very

interesting twist to the joy of portable HF antenna experimentation.

Masthead
Thanks

Image

this week to Lance VK/TO

for this work of art shown

above!

After Lance discussed non-QRS operations on Tuesday evenings with
others, there appeared to be some confusion about operating QRQ
CQ QRS

Net segment.

Net band plans to help nudge participants in the right direction.
mate!

New

Team

in the

To help, Lance has put together these nice CQQRS

Members

Thanks

Welcome this week to Calvin VK3CAL who lives at Koondrook on the
Murray River between

Echuca and Swan

Hill.

Calvin has recently started

his CW journey and is keen to get a bit of help from our team along the
way.

Calvin’s mate George VK3ALC from Keysborough

(sounds like a great

location for CW George!) has also joined the team this week.

Welcome

guys and great to see that you were both on the net on Tuesday;

you've

pushed our family membership to over 230 now!

Reports
After next Tuesday’s Group, please send me a

list of who you worked and /

or who you heard using our web form here:

bit.ly/COQRSNET

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 65 stations heard by 41 members

CaOks
Tem
Member

DL3YZ
IMONNK
VVYSOAME

Qso 1

Qso 2

tare
AA An —

reports.

A/IZSVAICNVAT

Qso 3

aso 4

VK2KI

DL3YZ

of our team on Tuesday:

aso 5

Qso 6

Qso7

aso 8

VAZAVCO

WUrKEU

4UITI

VAROVVWUVY

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

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

Heard on air

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

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

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

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

Heard 80m

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

Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard on air

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

in the team

bit.ly/CQOORSNET ) follow:
Comments:

members’

reports (submitted via our webform

This week’s comments from our webform
us by Patrick VK2IOW;

reports have been compiled for

thanks Patrick.

From Mike DL3YZ at Stuttgart / Germany
[20m]
This morning | had some appointments in the office, so |
wasn’t able to be on air for a proper shift. In a short break, |
just turned the radio on and caught Ross on his last beeps

for today. So | just send him a short greeting. After our brief
exchange, | heard Manny - VK2DRQ calling me. And after
our nice little QSO | heard Mark - VK6QI’s signals and we
did a quick exchange. Thanks for the fun :-) Hope | can be
on air for a full shift next Tuesday. Have a great week and
enjoy spring time! Mike - DL8YZ

From

Ross

MONNK

at Exeter UK

| was particularly pleased to have made a contact with Mark VK2KI as his signal is
harder to glean from the ether than some other stations. But | really had to crank the
volume down when Mike DL3YZ called me from only 1000 kms away in Germany!

From John VKSET at Hope Valley
TANm!1

prunity

Quite few stations on 40mts between

18:00 - 18:30 local

S.A time.

[80m]
Early night, only listened on 40 until 10:00 Z. 20 mts very
noisy earlier on.

From

Stan ZL3TK

at Waitarere Beach

[40m]

Band noise was practically zero making for some seriously strong signals, even from
VK6.
Conditions rendered the waterfall background black, punctuated only by
dozens of beautiful sparking stripes.

Never seen it like that before.

Reminded me of van Gogh's famous 1889 painting
‘Starry Night'.

Does anyone remember the epic

words 'starry starry night’?

They were first line of

verses 1, 4 and 8 in Don McLean's

beautiful 'Vincent'

released in 1972 and played on the old AM broadcast
band.

Absolutely in keeping with the heydays of

CW!

From Donald VK6JDM

at 20 west of Esperance

[40m]
The whole CW segment of 40 was on fire. At times with a 250 Hz wide Collins filter
switched in there were three stations in the passband.

[80m]
80 was quiet as a mouse but | could hear a

lot of international stations using SSB soPr
the

potential was there. Spoke to the fearless
leader who took so many us down the path of

CW on 80.

From Richard VK6PZT at Bunbury
[40m]
: Great signal to ZL from vk6 tonight
[80m]
| had no luck on 20m to Europe. I’m home too late to catch
the long path window. However, my signal was getting into
North America. So N5OE and NG2E answered my CQ
instead.

From David VK6KD at Ballajura WA
[40m]
Only stations on 40m | could copy were flying
along too fast for me.
[80m]
Propagation appeared to be quite good but a lot
of QSB from VK2 and VK4.

| tried Sava VK4PN

on 80m but my signal was coming into VK4 too
low for a sig report.

From Peter VK6NQL / VK6IS at Wundowie
mee

«(80M

We still need some extra WA stations to practice with.

From

lan VK7TA

at Latrobe

[40m]

| had a quick listen at 1730 and the only sigs heard were too
weak to copy. | called CQ and got no response. When | came
back later in the evening | could hear more activity. The two
Japanese stations (who were pretty weak here) may not have
been official net participants, but they were sending at
moderate speeds.

From Richard VK6HRC at Padbury
[40m]

Be, Heard Richard VK6PZT calling and was about
:

From Greg VK5KFG at Willunga
[40m]

z to give him a call but a message came up on

Low QRN on 40 here tonight (but high QRN on 80 for some
reason). QRP with the QMX+ (which, incidentally, pretty
accurately decoded the QSO between Mait and Manny as
it progressed.

Splendid fists gentlemen!)

From Lance VK7TO at Hobart
[40m]

| only managed to get on a
found Philip, VAK2GBR.

ef4

bit later this week, but quickly

It's always a pleasure hearing the

musical rhythm of his bug.

Next up was Greg, VKSKFG with

ee | his most impressive 3 W signal into Hobart. | finished off the
q evening with Peter, VASWOW. It's been just over a year
since our last QSO, so nice to catch up again.

From your editor Mark VK2KI at Beautiful South Bowning NSW
[20m]
Well a historical moment for me using my VK2

station - finally, finally, finally worked Ross MONNK/p!
I've worked

him many times before via the VK6SR,

Summerland Radio Club and DL3YZ remote
stations, but never direct from here in NSW.

Ross

was Clearly pleased as well that we got through at
last (I could tell from the cadence of his keying - HI!),

even though he reported RST 529 but | gave him RSN 311 in return with QSB taking
his dits and dahs from nicely Q5 to down below the noise. Woo hoo! Thank you for
your persistence Ross - so it can be done with simple wire antennas at both ends.

[40m]
| was distracted by the VK6 Remote and dinner, so | didn't get to chat to anyone at
rush hour this week. However, late in the evening | noticed a nice QRS signal on
7020kHz - and was pleased to work Cal VK3CAL who from the sounds of things was

having a go on air early in his CW learning journey.

Cal was struggling a bit with my

signal, so | tried to call in the Meredith QRS specialist Jordan VK3ACU via WhatsApp
- however, being around 2230, Jordan was sensibly, horizontally polarised. Needless
to say, | flashed off an email as well, inviting Cal to join our happy team.
Mike DL3YZ came up for a quick chat to Ross on his way out the door heading to
work... but | tried anyway!

No luck from this side of the country.

[80m]

On 80m | heard Donald VK6JDM and gave him a try - no luck across the desert
sands this time. | did hook up with Sava VK4PN who reported that he was worn out
having spent the day helping his son in the garden; | think he needs more practice plenty of weeds down here mate!

After Sava | worked David VK6KD - tough going though RSN 311 with QSB, so we
reverted to the VK6SR remote for a more relaxed chat.

Also from your editor Mark VK6QI via the VK6SR Remote HF station at Jandakot
and the VK5PH

KiwiSDR network at Ironstone Range, just East of Adelaide

[20m]
| noticed that Mike DLSYZ was coming through nicely into WA when he was working
Manny VK3DRQ - and | was pleased to send him an RSN 311 in QSB, and received
RST 529 in return.

Hope you weren't too late getting to work Mike!

[40m]
Great to hook up with one of our WA Directors, Richard VK6HRC,

via the VK6SR

Remote.

[80m]
Doctor Donald VK6JDM near Esperance was coming

z=—UlC

through nicely to the VK6SR Remote at Jandakot

when we hooked up.

Funny to realise that it had been

seven months since we chatted last!

Donald teaches

rural medicine up in Kalgoorlie, and after he asked
how

| was,

| had this funny vision about conducting GP

consultations via CW - | guess that's what happened in
the days before voice communication with outback
stations via the RFDS network.... all while pedalling
the generator as well! Anyway, it was nice to chat
again.
| rounded out the 80m session with a nice follow-up chat to David VK6KD at Ballajura
before heading to bed... via 40m... and then the kitchen - where | managed to drop a
full bottle of white wine vinegar on the tiled floor in the pantry! What a mess.... and
so much fun trying to clean up the glass and wine from the floor, walls, shelves,
sneakers, trousers, socks and the cat around midnight!

Phew!

From Phil VK6GX at Gidgegannup

[40m]
| was only able to put in a couple of hours on 40m. It seemed like
a very slow start to the net on this side of VK. Some good signals
from eastern VK, but no ZL's heard this week.

From George VK2AOE at Kogarah/Sydney

tant,

means

novwaihs

nimnae

wanaroshia

Vanes

HWUR IY HIGWIy PHIPGU, VoIGIAaMIG
m

1acoU

FT-101E out for its first spin. The newly
. fitted CW crystal filter worked a treat and
no smoke came out! | worked Peter

VK2WOW and we had a fine old QSO,
™ exchanging antenna info. It was a school
night, and the term has been unrelenting,

so | only had the one QSO but it was a
grand one. 73 de VK2AOE
Link to refurb on the Yaesu:

From John VK3BSE

https://youtu.be/ae2X6wJC6P8

at Somers

[40m]

‘Twas a night for sandbagging with enough signals
above the noise, both VK and ZL.

Does anyone know what the signal on 7039 is about?
The transmission is continuously sends kkkk kkkk kkkk
etc.

From Manny VK3DRQ at Blackburn
[20m]
OM

Ross MONNK

was not so strong, only 321

but when

Mike DLSYZ came

in,

which surprised me, he was 441 with little QSB. Thanks to both of you and let's keep
on trying!

Extremely, QRM

because of so many operators, which is

. 7

unusual but nice to hear.

For the first time | found it hard to find

a clear spot where to call CQ QRS. When | found the spot, it
s4 was almost non-stop. Unfortunately, | couldn't stay too long
(@

because this morning was a very early start for me. My
j apologies if anyone was waiting for me.

From Sava VK4PN at Mount Ommaney Brisbane
[80m]
Again very late to join the QRS Net.

Got on air at 21:50 and went straight to
80 m, pretty quiet, | mean no signals

but plenty of noise and QRN. Logged
on the trusty lronside SDR to see if|
could spot anything on the waterfall,
there was a weak trace at 3554 kHz. |
tuned on that frequency and did not hear anything just warbling noise at S9. That
particular frequency is obliterated with noise from somewhere in the neighborhood.
The trace changed from pale green to solid red and | could copy VK2KI ina QSO
with VK6KD.

| moved 5 kHz lower to clear the noise and started calling CQ. No

takers but | could see VK2KI and VK6KD still chatting. After about 15 min and when
traces at 3554 kHz vanished | think | heard VK6KD responding but the signal was
feeble and my noise was still S8 peaks. Sent QRZ and did not hear anything back.
Than VK2KI called me and we had a

bit of a chat. Mark was strong at times but

fading frequently into the noise, even if he faded to S7 | would lose only fragments of
his over and managed to make sense of what he was sending. Advantage of slow
Morse you do not miss much during fades or QRN burst. | thought this would be the

only QSO for the evening but kept calling CQ as my signal was strong into Ironside
SDR and | was also picked up in ZL by the Reverse Beacon Network. At about 22:40

| was stunned by a call from ZL1HX booming in at 599+. We had a nice QSO with
great signals both ways. Bow in fact was on the way to bed when he heard me
calling and stopped for a quick chat so | did not hold him too long it was almost 1 am
in ZL. Hope to join QRS net a bit earlier next Tuesday.

Post Morsum-24th September 2025
from Richard VK6HRC
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2 /P wl. 21.

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live CnecKed

If Onl ne

VK6QI

= Mark

VK6KD

David

VK6FN

Max

OOULT

VVESLTepedler

ana

AOlanV/CCnOlnK

NUD.

VK6HRC
VK6MRB Mulligan SWL and others.
Index Labs QRP rig.

Mark managed to catch up with Ross M@NNK/P on 2m

but not so lucky with

Mike DL3YZ. On 49m a new station was worked and Mark is hoping we will
have another regular on the net.

From VK2,

Donald VK6JDM

was heard on

8m but a contact was not completed unfortunately. On the upside contacts with
VK6KD David and Sava VK4PN were successful. On the VK6SR remote in Jandakot WA, Mark worked Donald and David.

David worked Mark VK6QI on 8@m tried to work Sava VK4PN but was not
successful due to QSB taking signals down into the noise. On 49m tried to work
an Indonesian station but was not successful there either but another station
called in at a rather rapid pace. Unfortunately did not respond to David sending

QRS and disappeared into the ether !
Max

worked six stations on 40m using the Flex Maestro working really well with

the new battery. He is also looking forward to getting more antennas up in the air
with more conducive weather on the way.
| had four good contacts on 40m tried on 80m later to no avail. In SWL mode it
was great to follow on with a lot of signals in the
waterfall to choose from.

A big thank you to all on

last night and this morning.

Stay safe

Richard.

On
CW

the

2 Metre

My Workbench
Band

by Ross MONNK

This is something that’s not strictly relevant to the QRS Net... But it was super cheap
to put together, very compact and portable, and might be great fun if | can find

someone to QSO with.

27 See

Quansheng UV-K5 radio: 144.050 MHz is the UK VHF CW Centre of Activity
Firmware: IJV version 2.9R5 (enables CW mode)
Homebrew wiring harness for earphones and morse key
Headphone signal is very strong (intended to drive a speaker?) so | use an inline attenuator
Flat pack straight key (improved Mk2 version) by MOBMN
The UV-K5 is a VHF and UHF FM radio; it must be an SDR (that's why | could flash
new firmware to it). The firmware enables CW - forming and transmitting the keyed
carrier (it's not MCW (keyed audio) so presumably it does the same for receive
demodulation).
2m CW is a slowly growing corner of the hobby in the UK, although it does seem to
have a toe-hold in California and tech spreads out across the world from there. If you
want to see a young lady making a great job of it, | can recommend this video.

One thing | can say with confidence, though, is that | won’t be having any CW DX
QSOs with Aussie operators on 2 metres, regardless of how good the propagation is!

Thanks Ross.

This device opens up a very interesting option for SOTA and

VKFF Parks CW fans who don’t have time to set up an HF station, but can
use the parksnpeaks.org website to notify others nearby of their activation.
/ don’t even know if there’s a CW frequency on 2m in Australia any more H1....

If you have an article or two that you think might be of interest to our
readers, please let me know so we can share more thoughts and ideas;
guidance on writing for RagChew,
material to Mark VK2KI:

see Articles below.

Please email

cqqrsnet@gmail.com

for

This Week’s

Topic of

Interest
Chordal

Hop
by Ross

Propagation
MONNK

Copied shamelessly from this website.
We've been having great success with EU-VK DX via The Long Path, and
very little success when working The Short Path. So, why are Long Path
signals consistently stronger than Short Path signals?

This could be because the Long

Path runs mainly over salt water,
.

London

to Sydney

reflecting off that surface with

8 hop Long Path

less attenuation than off a land

“

surface. But that whole

“multiple

seven

bounces

*.J

has never seemed credible to me
six

3000 kms hops

reflections off the surface” thing
- with

oo,

]

Pe urtace

reflections

#<—~___ lonosphere

F Layer

reflections

Ogg”

there

ssw

nsow

azaw

sow

caw

would be just too much
aggregated
attenuation.
Hop

Fortunately there’s another possible explanation - Chordal

propagation.

Chordal

Hop propagation

is when

a signal bounces along within the

lonosphere, never touching the surface and thus experiencing

much

less

attenuation.
We’re all amateur radio operators so now comes the Science part. It is
significant that our Long Path signals spend
night time area of the earth. Chordal

most of their journey in the

Hop propagation

uses the night time

“F-layer - when the F-layer loses its ionization density and its ability to
reflect signals back to Earth. At these times, the F-layer may be just dense
enough to reflect the signal but at a less steep angle, causing the signal to
hit the F-layer again as the layer dips down around the curvature of the
earth. A bit like laser light in a curving fibre optic cable.
So, how does the signal mysteriously know when to drop out of the
ionosphere and down

onto Australia or Europe?

from night into day, where the F-layer becomes
downwards

Simple - the signal passes
more reflective, directing it

rather than horizontally.

We all know that propagation

is not well understood so it’s no surprise that

there are alternative explanations as to how Chordal

Hop works. It could be

that signals travel within the F-layer, curving in a duct rather than
internally reflecting within the layer. Or that signals bounce between the F-

layer and a Sporadic-E layer. Your guess is as good as theirs.
In any event, something

good and magical

is happening

(which is a rare

event these days) so I’m going to take off my Full License holder hat, throw
it up in the air, and call out:
Three

Cheers for Modern

Magic

[Really interesting postulation Ross - thank you.

!!!

Couple of observations for

our readers to think about and hopefully add-to svp:
e

The weak F-layer is an interesting thing to think about.

Probably

easier if one was to think about propagation in terms of refraction
(bending as the EM wave travels through the ionosphere)
reflection.

versus

Does a weaker refractive medium produce a shallower

refraction compared to a more ton-dense medium?

| can’t remember

that aspect of Physics - can our readers help me here?
e A life-time ago in the 70s when | lived in Perth the first time, we (my
father VK6SB and| VK6QI/) had a three element tri-band Yagi up 60
feet - life was good!

My memory ts dim, but I recall that at that time,

the Short Path to the UK usually had better signals than the Long
Path.

So it’s interesting that you’re finding the opposite now.

What

are VK6 DxXers finding this season?
e

/f the signal was being somehow
surface of the duct?

‘ducted’, what would form the lower

| think the E-layer would be weaker (and likely

dissipated) compared to the F-layer - and | think that sporadic-E would
be very rare at night.
So Ross - you've posed a very interesting thing to think about and do some
more research on - thank you.

Readers’ thoughts svp?]

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

For guidance on writing for RagChew,

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know;

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see Articles below.

Practice

on the track somewhere

by John VK2RU

For anyone who has been using these files for a while, you might be finding
12 wpm

a bit too slow. This week I’ve increased the audio file speed and it

is now recorded at 16 wpm.
If you want a slower speed, you can find 12 wom
newsletters. Or you can create your own

audio files in previous

MP3 files from the Chapter 4 txt

file at any speed as noted below.
This week we start Chapter 4 of Wind

in the Willows - Mr Badger.

Because of MailChimp’s size limits, I’ve split Chapter 4 into 4 parts. Each
part is over 1 hour playing time @ 16 wpm.
below.

Parts 1 and 2 are attached

If you’d like the full chapter in a single file, you can use the

complete text of Chapter 4, and convert it yourself with the Ebook2CW
- https://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html.

app

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
e

Two

we wilh.

attachments

MP3

include:

files (first section

of Chapter 4)

e Two text files matching the MP3 segments
e One text file of Chapter 4

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

1.5x, 1.75x).

News

Other things we’ve received from our 230-plus
readers.

Simon & Jo MOKBJ Harvey

Saw

CAP]. ae

| had a great time on Wednesday
at the Museum of
Communication in Fife, Scotland.
https://sjharvey.org.uk/MOKBJ/
2025 _blog.html#2025-09-17
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9°18 pm

Check your License

Expiry Date

Last week we looked at the new Class Licensing scheme for amateur radio
in Australia.

Kees, VKLKVS

article to the Canberra

opened

a can of worms when

Region Amateur Radio Club!

he sent the

Over to Kees:

Regarding the callsign expiry article in the last CQQRS
RagChew

rennin

Check your License Expiry Date.

newsletter, | contacted CRARC, the Canberra

that your

Region Amateur Radio Club, and suggested they
periodically send members

an email advising them to

keep an eye towards any upcoming

expiry of their

callsigns. This is the reply | got:
Q

O C e

The new Class amateur radio license expires after fi
i

Screenshot

AA AGRAR

QUOTE
Hi Kees,
You do not have to do anything. All previous licence holders are
automatically recognised as being gualitied to operate under the class
licence.

THERE 1S NO LONGER a licence issued to an individual operator. If

you hold a recognized qualification, advanced certificate of proficiency or
for example an "ACMA recognition certificate (Foundation)" you can be
issued with a callsign (you allready have one). Having a callsign allows you
to operate under the new class licence.

This class licence covers ALL

Australian amateur radio operators. A call sign is issued for life after
payment of a fee (you have paid this under the old system).
your contact details updated with ACMA

You must keep

email etc. Every 5 years ACMA

will

ask you if you want to keep the callsign. IN SHORT no expiry dates, so the
article is pointless.
UNQUOTE

ng the

haw nas int

I'll make sure my ACMA
see if ACMA

profile stays up to date, however | will wait and

indeed asks that question when the time comes.

But thanks for raising the issue, prompting

us all to familiarise us further

with the portal and check our status with ACMA.
73

Kees

VK1KVS

My response:
Hi Kees.
Interesting.

I've just re-listened to Hayden's video - he says the ACMA

won't contact you to check whether you want to retain the license - but the
ACMA website says it will:
Call sign checks and reassignment
Under the class licence, most call signs will be assigned on an ongoing basis (unless the call sign
holder surrenders, transfers, or the ACMA cancels the assignment of the call sign). For permanently
assigned call signs, we will check every 5 years whether you still require your call sign/s.
Call signs with the prefix VKO or VK9, special event call signs and contest call signs are assigned for
12 months.
From 19 February 2024, expiry dates for contest call signs on the AMC's contest call sign list were
extended by 12 months. For example, on 19 February 2024, if the expiry date for the contest call sign
was listed on the AMC contest call sign list as 24 March 2024, the new expiry date is 24 March 2025.
For call signs with the prefix VKO and VK9 and special event call signs, we will contact holders of these
call signs before July 2024 to confirm the call sign/s they hold and their expiry date/s.
Holders of call signs with the prefix VKO or VK9, special event call signs and contest call signs will be
able to apply on ACMA Assist to have their call sign re-assigned before expiry.

| guess the critical thing is to make sure that your email address is correct
when your license approaches expiry.
last known address?
have moved

If not, will the ACMA write to your

We don't know of course.

There may be people who

locations and changed their email address who might slip

through the cracks.
Dit-dit.
Many thanks, very much appreciated. This conforms that ACMA will indeed
check after 5 years, as mentioned

by my CRARC

contact, but which was

not stated in the video, to my knowledge (having listened to it twice).
Thanks for going back right to the authoritative source! As you say, then it
becomes

a matter to make sure one’s contact details with ACMA are up to

date for their five-yearly check.
Thanks again and all best wishes!
73

Kees

VK1KVS

Followed

by:

| had some further communications with CRARC yesterday. They reminded
me that at the beginning of last year prior to the introduction of the
Radiocommunications

(Amateur Stations) Class Licence 2023 ACMA

out a letter to Australian Amateur Radio Operators.

| managed

sent

to dig up

the letter | received, as attached. CRARC further advised that the proposed
licence changes were also first published by ACMA

(2023) and the WIA

news broadcast, AR Magazine, CRARC, VK1Reflector and other sources
which have published the updates to the information since then. | indeed
would

have received some of the ones mentioned,

but obviously as time

passes one does not necessarily retain all the details. The attached
also addresses the call sign issue, although
period commences
February

letter

it is not clear if the five-year

from the date the call sign was first issued, or from

19*" 2024 when the new class licence came

into effect. Short of

further investigating the ACMA website as per Hayden VK7HH’s video, |
trust | will hear something
73

in the fullness of time, whichever date applies.

Kees

VK1KVS

australian

Qualifications and call signs
A new qualification framework and call sign arrangements will also commence
on 19 February 2024, to support the amateur class licence. From this date, the
ACMA, will issue qualifications and continue to assign call signs.
Sualificati

12 January 2024

Kees Van Der

Under new qualification arrangements, you do not need to apply for a new
qualification. The existing qualification levels will be retained = foundation,
standard and advanced. However, for new qualifications, we will issue an ACMA
recognition certificate instead an Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency.
Amateur radio examinations will be conducted by persons who accredited as
‘accredited assessors’ under the Radiocommunications Accreditation (Amateur
Radio Examination) Rules 2023. We will release the amateur radio qualification
framework on our website in February 2024.

ACMA file reference: ACMAREEEy

Call signs
When the class licence commences, you will retain the amateur call sign{s) that
have already been assigned to you and are still active on 18 February 2024.
This includes 2-letter, 3-letter, contest and special event call signs. We will
conduct 5-yearly checks for 2-letter and 3-letter call signs that do not start with
the prefix VEO or VK, to confinm if you still need them. Special event, contest,
VKO and VK9 call signs will have a 12-month allocation peried. If you hold a
special event, VKO or VK9 call sign(s), in February or March 2024 we will write
to you separately about the designated expiry date(s) for the call sign(s) and
with further details on the re-assignment
process for
them. A revised call sign
policy, which will outline arrangements for checks and re-assignment periods,
will be published on our website in February 2024.

Dear licensee
ACMA letter of confirmation

FSS

ypc

lam writing to you because you, or the organisation for which you are the
contact, hold a non-assigned amateur radio apparatus licence issued by the
On 19 February 2024, the Radiocommunications (Amateur Stations) Class
Licence 2023 (amateur class licence) will commence. The amateur class licence
will authorise the operation of amateur stations in Ausiralia by persons who hold
a recognised qualification at the foundation, standard or advanced level. ‘You
are authorised to operate an amateur station under the amateur class licence as
long as you comply with the conditions within it. You do not need to apply to the
ACMA, or pay any fees to operate under the amateur class licence.

In preparation for the amateur class licence commencement,
confinns that:
«
*

When the amateur class licence commences, you will no longer need a
non-assigned amateur apparatus licence (your licence). You are allowed to
perform the same activities when operating under the amateur class licence.
If you do not take any action, your licence will continue to exist for the duration
of its term. However, given that the amateur class licence will automatically
apply, the ACMA will not renew your licence.

As a result of the above, you are authorised to operate an amateur station under
the amateur class licence when it commences on 19 February 2024.
More information about the arrangements for transition to the amateur class
licence is available on the ACMA’s website:
hitps://wwiw.acma.qov.auw/amateur-

When the amateur class licence commences, you can surrender your licence. lf
you wish to retain your call sign(s), your licence must be active until the amateur
class licence commences. You will be eligible for a refund if you have at least
294 days left on your licence (i.e. a licence expiry date of 8 December 2024 ar
later), fram the date the ACMA accepts the surrender, so early submission of
surrender applications is encouraged. You can submit a surrender application
now (guidance is below), seeking that your licence be surrendered on
19 February 2024.

Well thank you Kees.
Inbox!

Dre. Pea pee

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If you have any questions, please send them ta
t
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oW.au
Yours sincerely

To surrender your licence, please email your surrender request, including your
licence number and client ID and the date you would like your licence to be
surrendered, to infoitacmagov.au. lf you are entitled to a refund, we will send it
automatically. We issue refunds by cheque or electronic funds transfer (EFT), if
you have given us your E
étails. Of note, the refund will not be processed
until the surrender has taken place, so you won't receive it until February 2024
at the earliest. More information on surrenders and our refund policy are
available on the ACMA website: httos./www.acma.gov.au/give-your-licenc

that the ACMA

the ACMA

your highest level of recognised qualification is Pee
Tye
if your licence is still active on 19 February 2024, the 3-letter call sign(s) that
have been assigned to you are: ree

Aaah

Anneke Van der Weyde
Manager Spectrum Licensing Policy

You’re not Robinson Crusoe - | had also forgotten

had emailed

me the letter in January 2024 - it was still In my

I’ve now printed, filed, saved and who knows what else... So

hopefully | can find it next time!

And yes, I’ve set myself a reminder (in my

phone - what could possibly go wrong?) to check my email address just
before the five year period expires.

Morse Training

Net

Our team

Nic VK7WW

member

every Wednesday

at 7pm

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 VK/7TAZ on that net.
Many of our team

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.
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you'll hear lots of the

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Slow CW

Out-Of-Hours

Slow CW Out-of-Hours Frequencies

Frequencies

Avoiding RSI

by Your Editor Mark VK2KI

Further thoughts from Peter VK3WOW on

Last week following a suggestion from Nic VK7WW who runs
the 80m CW training session on Wednesdays, | started a
discussion about nominating QRS calling/monitoring
frequencies for each

the interesting topic discussed in

HF band, to use in addition to our

current landing frequencies of 1855kHz,

RagChew editions 37/2025 and 38/2025.

3555kHz

and

7032kHz.

| have just analysed the last 100 notifications | received from ParksNPeaks
regarding

POTA and/or WWFF

notifications of 40 metre CW calls for these

activities in our region between early August and now, in order to identify
what frequencies POTA and/or WWFF

operators are calling on. The

following is the result:

7.024

7.026
7.027

It
WN

7.031

7.028

7.023

Coun

Numbe
:

7.032

7.0325
2

7.033

7.034

7.035

7.036

7.037

7.038

7.042

7.044

7.045

7.046

7.055

7.057

As this table shows, while nearly half of all calls are being made on what
appears to be at least a de facto “standard” 40 metre CW

POTA/WWFF

frequency of 7.032, many calls are being made that do not adhere closely
to such a “standard”.

Indeed, a hunter who monitored ONLY 7.032

MHz

would miss slightly more than half all calls being made.
Despite the level of variation shown
POTA/WWFF

here, these data suggest that the

community do in practice adopt one standard calling CW

frequency a lot of the time.
That being so, my own

personal view is that the CW QRS community

should not adopt 7.032 MHz as a standard CW QRS calling frequency,
order to minimise interference with POTA/WWFF
these data do, however,
With

operators.

| concede that

only partly support this view.

best wishes,

Peter Dann
VK3WOW

Thanks for your thoughts and analysis Peter.

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From Chris G7BED
Apologies,

| couldn’t make the net Tuesday ... there was another storm on

Sunday whilst | was away, and this time, it damaged
of the 10m

legs came off :-)

the fan dipole ... one

In tilting over the mast to repair it, | knocked

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mast is also now broken.

... so the stub

| couldn’t get it back in the air for the net, but

rest assured, | will send you some

photos for the magazine and will try to

be back on air next week.
Wishing you all well, and good

DX.

Best Regards
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[Bad luck mate!

Then again, perhaps good luck that no-one was hurt and

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Reverse

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From

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Working from home I tried calling CQ on 40m, 20m and 17m and didn't
get a single response!
air.

Conditions look great but few stations were on the

| could hear Brian ZL3XDJ calling on 14037kHz but he couldn't hear

my replies.
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Please email material to Mark VK2KI:

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Readable
What

Compiled

Antenna

I Have

Been

Five

Looking

on the track somewhere

at Lately.

by John VK2RU

Modelling

From John VK2RU
I’ve Known about MMANA-GAL for years, but this week | came across
Portable-Antennas.com

(see RagChew

21/2025).

Here is a quick review.

Portable-antennas.com is a browser-based antenna modelling tool
designed for radio amateurs focused on portable HF wire antennas.
offers an intuitive interface for designing and simulating common
types like dipoles, EFHWs,

verticals, Moxons,

antenna

and delta loops. Users can

input basic parameters and instantly view 3D radiation patterns, VSWR
plots, current distribution, and more. The use of NEC 4.2 ensures
reasonably accurate simulations for typical HF applications.

EFHW

antenna,

Target frequency: -----

5.0

40m

band

Minimum-VSWR

100.0

VSWR

(eey) aauepadwy

40m band

frequency: -.---.+=

6.80

690

7.00

7.10

7.20

730

“1000

Frequency (MHz)
—

VSWR-ANT

Imp.(Real)

Imp.(Imag)

BAV 2.6

The site excels in accessibility. No software installation is needed, and it is
ideal for quick prototyping or educational use. It also includes handy
utilities like coax loss calculators and unit converters. However,

it’s limited

to pre-defined antenna types and lacks the flexibility for modelling
complex or multi-element arrays.
In contrast, MMANA-GAL
Windows-based
geometry,

http://gal-ana.de/basicmm/en/ is a powerful,

NEC modelling

program

offering full control over wire

segmentation, and optimization.

It’s better suited for advanced

users and more complex designs but comes with a steeper learning curve
and outdated

UI.

In summary:

Portable-antennas.com

is an excellent quick-look tool for

portable antenna design with minimal setup, while MMANA-GAL
the go to for in-depth, custom
[Thanks John.

remains

modelling and serious optimization work.

| think you’re right - the more flexible antenna modelling

software packages are very hard to use.

There was a good series of

articles in AR Magazine in the last couple of years, but | suspect most
people like me give up because of the amount of learning needed to make

those programs work - portable-antennas.com looks to be a more
practicable tool for learning or designing.

Thank you.]

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please let me know so John

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Prosign/Character/Sig
nal of the Month
See if you can use this one on Tuesday!

Prosign:

Meaning:

Stand

[Suggestion - put it on a sticky note near your key as a reminder for
Tuesday.

Tell us how you went!]

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.

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

| Feeek He - TOAORHZ .

80m

fetid

160m

Wednesday (VK/ZL)

- S560kHZ

1855kHz

2200z - 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
tool such as ChatGPT,

prefer your own writing,

Model Artificial Intelligence

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 31 contributors:

G7BED,

DL3YZ,

MOKB},

MONNK, VK1KVS, VK2AOE, VK2DLF, VK2IOW, VK2RU, VK2TIG, VK3BSE,
VK3DRQ,

VK3KLE, VK3WOW,

VK6GX, VK6HRC,

VK7TA, VK7TO, YBINWP
editorial team,

VK4PN, VK5AO, VK5ET, VK5FD, VK5KFG,

VK6JDM, VK6KD, VK6KHZ,
and ZL3TK.

Nigel G4RWI

Patrick VK2IOW

(reports

(researcher and file re-sizer

extraordinaire) and Richard VK6HRC

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

And a special thank you to our

(software developer),

and cattle wrangler), John VK2RU

€U CW on Tuesday,

VK6NQL, VK6PZT, VK6WE,

(Post Morsition).

Great work all!

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