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No QLF for Jordan

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Spring time in our part of the world means thunderstorms
the monsoon

in the build-up to

season up North.... and this week Easterners and Northerners

were certainly treated to lots of the resulting static crashes.
40m

And when the

grey-line turned on the DX, boy was the band chockas - wall-to-wall

DX and wall-to-wall QRN!
However,

our valiant team of QRS fans still had lots of fun, as evidenced

the terrific reports you'll find below.

Thank you to everyone who had a go,

and an especial hat-tipping to those who were able to send in a report.
The 20m

long-path was working well as well - Mike DL3YZ was pouring in,

and | was really pleased to have a QSO again from my 5 Watt portable
gear, this time 40km

South of Wangaratta VIC.

Watts as well - and he was still RSN 571!
DXperimenter,

Mike reduced

power to 5

Unfortunately, our other

Ross MONNK who had got up before a cold dawn to get out

portable didn’t hear a sausage from this side of the globe.

Thanks for

trying mate.
And despite the QRN, our mate Sava VK4PN

up near Brisbane managed

get on air and work Mike and a bunch of others, despite having lost half his
offset-fed doublet and part of his transmission line.
20m

It worked just fine on

in inverted-L configuration, and even on 40m

his home-brewed

with just 3 Watts from

transmitter.

So | hope you can make time to enjoy the read of our newsletter, and the
contributions by so many of our mates - 31 contributors this week - thank
you one and all.
And finally, an opening thought from Yuval Noah

Harari’s new book Nexus -

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to Al, that
Elizabeth and | are reading at the moment:
It is always tricky to define fundamental concepts.
Since they are the basis for everything that follows,
they themselves seem to lack any basis of their own.
Physicists have a hard time defining matter and
energy, biologists have a hard time defining life, and
Philosophers have a hard time defining reality.

If you’re interested in understanding the meaning
awful lot about humanity,

| can recommend

of life, or just learning an

Harari’s books - starting with

his best-seller, Sao/ens.

Masthead

Image

Thanks this week to Jordan VK3ACU

for

the update on progress after his selfconfessed embarrassing
accident.

motorbike

| guess QLF will be out for a

while too?

Reports
Please don’t forget, after next Tuesday’s Group, send me a

list of who you

worked and / or who you heard using our web form here:

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Reports

& Comments

Here’s this week’s

Last Tuesday’s

Group

Here’s the 55 stations heard by 39 members

CQQRS Team
Member
DL3YZ
MONNK
VK2DLF

a
Worked

ot
20m

Heard on air
Heard on air

reports.

ZL3TK

of our team on Tuesday:

QSO 2

QSO 3

QSO 4

QSO 5

VK3DRQ

VK4PN

VK4DBD

VK2KI/QRP

QSO 6

QSO 7

QSO 8

VK2KI/P

Worked 20m

DL3YZ

Heard 20m
Worked 40m

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

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

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

Worked 80m
Worked 160m

Worked 20m

Worked 40m
Worked 80m
Worked 40m

Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m

Tried 40m
Heard 80m
Heard on air

Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Heard on air
Worked 40m
Heard 40m
Worked 80m
Nae u tani

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

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
[20m]
Hello to OC :-) This was another great Tuesday CW morning here in Oberboihingen
near Stuttgart. Conditions in DL were fine, so |

even managed to reach OM Stan - ZL3TK in
New Zealand for the first time (13,310 miles/

21.419 km ). And | had a real QRP QSO
(using 5W on both sides) with Mark VK2K] at

his camping site. All other stations | worked
with did S6 or better. The only grain of salt
was some ground radar QRM while chatting
with David, VKSDBD. A big thanks to all DX stations! Have a great week.
73 de DL3YZ - Mike

From John VK5ET at Hope Valley

[40m]
Bit noisy, lots of station on same or near frequency.

er semen semana ap mangas Pom

From David VK6KD at Ballajura WA
[40m]
| scouted around 40m but didn't hear too many stations.

| was

lucky to catch Max VK6FN between QSOs with a bit of QSB.

logged into a couple of SDR receivers to check my signal was
getting out as my calling CQ on 7034kHz had no takers. | saw
a msg that VK2KI was heading to 80m so | tuned up 80m and

started searching for CQ calls.

[80m]
Mark, VK2KI was very low down on my Rx so | logged into the SDR in Hammond SA
to complete the QSO.

Mark was running portable out at King Valley (VK3 land).

SDR in SA was picking up a lot of crackling QRN so suspect storms in the area.

Background noise floor at my home QTH was L7 but reduced to L3 with the QRM
noise eliminator.

From

Stan ZL3TK at Waitarere Beach

[20m]
Was able to exchange reports with Mike DL3YZ but RSN
321 signal allowed only 50 % copy, much the same as

last week when Ross was remotely operating Mike's
station. Called Ross MONNK a few times but nothing
heard, maybe due to his QRP in the 'green and pleasant
land’.

According to RBN, neither station was getting out

of Europe!
[40m]
Aclean band with low noise floor but propagation seemed quite geographically
limited, no VK5s or VK6s heard.

Was

unable to work Kevin VK3KEV

due to super

strong signals close to the channel, meanwhile | was seeing only light snow and a
black waterfall 3 kHz either side so was unaware of the problem he was
experiencing.

From Jordan VK3ACU

at Meredith

[40m]
Great to work Peter on 160m tonight. The band was in poor
shape, 20 and 40m very FB.

From

Ketut VK3BWN

Pee

at Keilor East

Condx were a bit noisy and towards end of QSO with VK3M4J, the
QSB was quite strong at times for the 100 km contact.

From Manny VK3DR@Q at Blackburn
[20m]
— OM Mike was 331 QSB but we managed to copy each other

OK.
Nothing was heard from this side about OM Ross.

Sikes [40m]
It started with too much QRM, then slowly was getting clear and
4 not many station left on our band. My last QSO was with the
, BOSS, the OM Mark VK2KI/P who keeps exploring our vast and
beautiful land. ENJOY it dear OM Mark.
After spending a couple of hours in the hospital yesterday | thought | was the worst
healthy person. But there are too many of us, including our CQ QRS CW members
who are much worse than | am.

From Peter VK6NQL at Wundowie
[40m]
It's a slow start, each week for the 1st few hours, there is

not much activity and then the folks seem to arrive on
deck.

From your editor Mark VK2KI/P at Edi Cutting campground, King Valley Victoria.
[20m]
Thh

CAMNDE

nat

antialhs

otartad

far

Tiinedaw

marnina

—

attamntinna

theresa

DIS

PIL

CV LUCIIY

OLOIIGU

HIG

PUGoOUcy

TIWITy

~ CQAULGTIIVUIiy

my arborists' throw-line up as high as | could in the trees near our AVan.
the Edi Cutting campground in the King Valley;

Utluyy

We were at

that's about 40km South of

Wangaratta, Victoria on the last week of our three-week ramble.

Really nice free

campground that we'd found on previous journeys without our AVan - so it was nice
to finally give it a try. We even saw a platypus in the river.
Anyway, back to the story... as usual, | picked some nice easy over-hanging
branches up about 10m... ha!

Ok - | couldn't quite make 10m.... so let's go for that

other one at about 8m? Hmmm.... anyway, after creating much amusement among
the other campers, finally the weight and its special low-friction rope cleared the
intended fork. The other ends of my home-brew ZS6BKW doublet were less difficult
- being only about 6m up.

So by early afternoon, | was ready to couple to the ether, and Ms E suggested that
we go for a nice 8km bush walk she'd found on a walking App on her phone. |
decided it'd be a good test of the off-line Avenza Maps on my
iPhone, so off we set.
Well, turns out that the tracks I'd found were different to the

ones Ms E had found on her bushwalking App.... and beyond
my better judgement, | was navigating. 16km, two echidnas
and one twisted ankle later..... we made it back to our AVan

at 0700z.... an hour late; oh well, we had a really nice walk, even if it was twice as

long as expected.
And joy! While we were gone, another pair of old mate campers had set up their site

with vehicles, inverters, fridges, cigarettes and who knows what else, right next to

where we were - right under my antenna.
why next to us?

Acres and acres of nice spots around...

| know a number of other camping members of the CQQRS family

have experienced the same problem. | know it's not our very unattractive AVan, and
certainly not our personalities... oh well - they were very well-behaved and quiet
(voice and RF noise-wise), so | guess we can share!
When | unpacked my trusty Yaesu FT-817 and hooked it up, 20m was hopping - Mike
DL3YZ was thundering in at RSN

RSN 599 with static crashes.

581

with the narrow CW filter in; without it he was

Mike was chatting to Sava VK4PN at Mount Ommaney

and David VK3DBD at nearby Yackandandah (who we visited in last week's
RagChew). | was surprised that Mike could hear my 5 Watt signal among the QRM
and reported RST 539. Mike switched down to 5 Watts and was still RSN 571 - and
with the AGC, he sounded not much different.

He may have had trouble burning a

hole in the EU QRM with QRP but boy his antenna must have been working a treat.
Once again, Mike had planned to get away at 0700z for work.... but once again, we'd
kept him busy on 20m until well after 0730z.
Mike and | both went up a few kHz to Ross MONNK's frequency and gave him a
nothing at all heard this week.

call -

Ross confirmed by email that he was in fact on from

his portable location and had worked some Europeans, but no luck for Mike, and us
antipodeans this time.
[40m]
After the fun of 20m, | came down to 40m to a barrage of
static crashes from thunderstorms that extended from
Northern NSW, up through coastal Queensland all the way
to Darwin.

Australials

| had a chat to Gerard VK2IO/P, one of Australia's most
prolific SOTA and VKFF Parks activators, who we'd met up
with on a previous camping expedition.

Gerard was

activating VKFF Parks in VK1; there had been a VKFF National Get Together in
Canberra over the weekend, and he was taking advantage of the many SOTA and
Parks in the ACT.

After Gerard | heard a huge S9+ signal from Grant ZL2GD near Christchurch;

| said

g'day but Grant was in the middle of hosting a ZL net. Instead | came across Lance
VK7TO with another huge signal from his classic TS-530S ane end-fed half-wave
ee ee

ae ee

cd
ce ed

ale

earl.
i nl.

antenna,

What

IUn!

Lance

dOvised

nal

QINNE!

Was

SIMMeEnng

completely ignored, and rag-chewed on and on far too long.

SLOVEe

- WIIICTI

Sorry mate, | trust the

home-made soup wasn't too badly over-cooked.
Dinner break here was Caesar salad, actually made without egg, anchovies,
almonds,

bacon or croutons.... Ms E came up with a remarkable imitation -

mayonnaise, oil, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, soy sauce, home-made onion
mush, dry bread, ham and supermarket cos lettuce topped with parmesan cheese;
beautiful!
After dinner, the static crashes on 40m were wall-to-wall, as was the strong piles of

DX stations below 7030kHz;

my CW filter helped

readability, but things were pretty hairy none-theless.... | probably should have tried the RF gain.
However,

| came across John VK5ET chatting to

Manny VK3DRQ,

and jagged a QSO

with John;

times John's signal was pushing my FT-817's S-meter
to full scale deflection.

After John, | had an interesting QRP-to-QRP QSO with Sava VK4PN using his 3W
home-brewed transmitter - would have been perfect if not for the thunderstorms.
Next up was Manny VK3DRQ - and we enjoyed a nice natter about our various
aches and pains - | had to ask Manny to re-spell rheumatologist! Would have been
riveting for listeners I'm sure!
| tried unsuccessfully to catch David VK6KD at Ballajura who was a nice RSN 589
with me despite the

S-9 crashes - | wondered if perhaps it was the CW waveform-

shaping of David's IC-7610 at work?
at Manjimup who was RSN

However | had more success with Max VK6FN

598 from his 10 Watt IC-905;

great to catch Max again,

and compared to David's signal, | wouldn't have guessed that Max was QRP.
Can't believe how many DX stations were on 40m this time;

despite the S8 QRN, the

band was chockablock.

[80m]
Of course, 80m was no better QRN-wise, but | did have another chat to Gerard
VK2IO/P in a different VKFF

Park, then Sava VK4PN

who was back on high power,

and struggling to read my QRP.

| rounded out the evening with a better attempt with David VK6KD, who was RSN
588. David wasn't able to copy enough of my miliWatts in Perth, so managed to fill-in
the gaps using a KiwiSDR at Hammond

Range in South Australia.

Summary

So all in all - another terrific CQQRS net - with great propagation conditions and lots
of QRP operators this week... but not so great QRN. | did notice that once again, my
sending speed was creeping up during the evening... which | attempted to keep
under control with Farnsworth spacing - so apologies to listeners who were hoping
for some decent QRS practice from me;
my normal keys.

I'll try to do better next week from home with

Thank you to everyone on air - di-dit.

From

Rob VK3ECH

at Echuca

[40m]

Nice to be back in the radio shack here at Echuca

after traveling outback Western QLD by 4X4 &
camper trailer for a month or so and then sailing the
Whitsunday Islands on the Yacht for the past 6
weeks.
So with all the goings-on | really haven’t done much
CW practice, which I’m in desperate need of.
Tuesday’s QRS was also hectic as after dining out
with friends for the evening, it was race home to

catch some contacts on the net before too late.
Thanks go to Kevin VKSKEV and to Mait VK5A0O for your patience with my poor CW
performance.

73, Rob VKSECH.

From Max VK6FN at Manjimup
[40m]
ELE

Great conditions here last night. All worked with only

From

lan VK7TA

10 watts QRP.

at Latrobe

BR [40m]
é

Many stations checking in to the NZ net had good signals here.

From Tony VK3CTM at Bendigo
[40m]
Joe VK2KJJ had me stumped when he sent his QTH as
'Wagga X 2' (Slow, Tone!) | really appreciated his careful

sending and was ‘head copying' for most of our short QSO.
[80m]
As the weather has now warmed | operated from our semi enclosed back veranda with my HB1B

VK3WOW

QRP

rig. Peter,

needed several repeats on my rig and power due to

QSB, but he was thumping in to Bendigo with his 100 Watts.
We had quite a good discussion with some rather '‘tortuous'
compressions of language on my part.

From Lance VK7TO at Hobart
[40m]

| had my TS-530s back on air after a full alignment, so was keen to stretch its legs.
Short of time however, | had to fit my

single QSO in the brief space afforded
by a pot of soup warming on the
stove. (Un)fortunately Mark, VK2KI,

found my CQ call and | promptly
forgot about the soup. Fortunately, it
was a thin soup, and so rather than

boiling dry, it instead reduced to a
hearty, and very tasty meal.

From Peter Dann VK3WOW

at Blackburn

[80m]
| find myself dreaming some nights that | am sending or receiving Morse code, but a
rather more unusual "waking dream" phenomenon happened to
me after Tuesday night's session.
Working Tony VK3CTM, who was QRP on 4 watts, | was really
struggling to catch his rig, which | constantly mis-copied as an
"SB1B" kit (was actually, an"HB1B", | realise now, though why
blame faulty ears when | can always blame QSB7). Anyway, Tony
must have been really on my mind, for next morning, as | was
practising call sign recognition with the RufzXP program, what call
sign should RufzXP throw at me demanding recognition but
"VK3CTM"? | know the old song lyric goes "I'll see you in my dreams" ... but on
RufzXP too, Tony???

From Sava VK4PN at Mount Ommaney Brisbane
[20m]
Fran

Cian

huan

atarm

hit

Ornamoannans

neniinht

dna

all

mus

antannnan

tha

Vil

ouiluay

Uys

OLUITIT

IVIL

WIaniey

ail

WIUUYIIL

UUW

GIy

QIneiinlaS

LIC

prospect for rag chew on Tuesday looked grim.

Anyway | used what was left of the OCF (shorter
section and the feeder still hanging on halfway
down).

| was tempted to use leftovers as a true

ZEPP but tuning was difficult. End-fed using just one
leg of the feeder tuned nicely by tapping

autotransformer correctly. So | managed 3 contacts
on 20 but all QRO. DL3YZ was coming through very nicely with just 100 W and
G5RV. Spent too much time chasing PZ5DX from Surinam. This is a rare on-air
country so it was worth it. Again the pile-up was huge but | got lucky.
[40m]

Again not enough time for 40m due to too much time spent on 20m. Worked QRP
only again but with a BFO offset set correctly for LSB and narrow filter. Checked all
against my main rig and both way exchange was fine. Made a number of calls to
stations with big signals and missed every time to stations running QRO. VK2KI/3
made my evening again after my call to VK5TE failed | was called by Mark and we
had a nice QSO under very noisy conditions. To my surprise | got RSN of 588 despite
my makeshift antenna.
[80m]

Moved to 80m after QSO with Mark as he indicated to me he would be moving to 80
as well but later. lronside SDR was full of static not a single trace in sight. Switched
to QRO and called few CQs, | could see my carrier at Ironside and it was pretty
strong (red most of the time ). Did not expect much under the circumstances but
Jordan VK3ACU called me back with a very nice signal. We had a brief exchange
and | continued calling CQ. A faint trace popped up at 3530 out of QRS segment so |
tuned in and managed a difficult QSO with VK2IO/P he was very faint fading in and
out and QRN was vicious. | managed to copy only the RST but did not copy the
name. Could have tried harder but | spotted a faint trace at 3555, Mark of course.
Moved up and listened and | was right, Mark working QRP from a caravan park. We
had a nice QSO again but copy at my QTH was difficult. So there you have it, flimsy
antenna, bad QRN, but still enjoyable.

The Vagaries of Propagation
From Ross MONNK
Tha

nlaenn

nnn

Food

Fawn

Lien

Mien nn

usa

Fann

nar

bent

awe

nen

alah

YUCS

Ull

10a.

UIQ.

WISSS,

Wasll

lab,

SCUI!

lUdsl

dilu

Uldalye

juice.

Then out into the inky black of an October morning. Driving out to my Portable
location, | see Venus low in the western sky, surrounded by the faintest glimmer of

dawn - the “Grey Line” is approaching - how exciting!
Whoever invented head-torches deserves a medal. But my gear is familiar and I’m
soon set up and settled in the passenger seat of the car, surrounded by the
paraphernalia of my hobby.

| sent a few CQs for the Reverse Beacon

Network and saw that Mike DL3YZ

had

done the same.

It looked like Mike’s signal was getting to New Zealand and the Caribbean - yippee!
We all know that the RBN only plots Short Path routes, regardless of how the signal
is actually getting there (in this case, by the Long Path). And my signals were making
at least the first 1000 km hop. So things were looking promising and | started calling
“CQ VK de MONNK”.
| heard a Russian (R3BBUJ) in Moscow (too weak to work) but then | kicked off with a

call to a British op (MOMHJ) calling “CQ SOTA’ who deserved a reply for working a
park at that time in the morning. A little while after that, | had a pleasant QSO with
Hans OE7AdI in Austria, only 250 kms from Mike as the crow flies. And then a typical
call with a strong Italian station (IN3XIV), who gave my reply to his CQ a quick “559
73” and then he was gone. As you can probably tell, there was plenty of European
activity on the 20m band close to my operating frequency.
But no DX stations for me this week, despite Mike being busy on the QRS Net 1000
kms to the east.
That’s how the DX cookie crumbles sometimes.

TAT AV AV AV AV AV AV AVAVAY AY AV AY AY,

Post Morsum 29th October
From Richard VK6GHRC.

Eight on the South West repeater and AllStar/ Echolink hub this morning.
VK5ET

John

VK6NW

Wayne

VK6QI

= Mark

DL3YZ

Mike

VK6KD_

David

VK6FN

Max

VK6HRC
VK6MRB Mulligan SWL and others.

———

John worked three on 40m and two on 80m a highlight was working Mark on his
trusty Yaesu FT817 QRP rig. Looking forward to next week already !
Wayne was kept busy programming a new rig for a while, but got on 40m later to
have some fun.

Mark still Glamping in VK3 had a good evening despite the QRN, managed to
work Mike DL3YZ on 20m, nothing heard of Ross MONNK unfortunately. Worked
six on 40m missed two, was busy on WhatsApp spotting for us as well !

Mike stayed up late to call in to let us know he had a good morning on 20m and
is looking forward to the next DX session.
David worked two on 40m having to listen out on a Kiwi sdr in VK5 to complete a
contact with Mark at one stage.
Max worked six on 40m with his lcom 705 heard VK4PN on 80m and then
headed off to a well deserved evening meal with his son on a visit from the UK.
| had a contact with Peter VK6NQL on 40m with the HB-1B on loan from a
then called for a while before going into SWL mode

friend

for the rest of the session.

Thank you to all on last night and this morning /
evening
73
Richard.

My Workbench

lan VK1HF Gilchrist
in other news - VK2JAP and | have been working on our KiwiSDR.
It’s up and running in a Mk1 config. Mk2 is to improve the antenna
and SNR - that will happen over the next few weeks. It's a great

location for radio up there.
| also got jack of using the kiwi/public page to look for the same
old RX's - so made up a handy links page - the URL's change
automatically to 40/80 depending on the time of day
5:44pm
http://snowlinesdr.vk1hf.com:8073/

Another
From

Passive

Adrian

Filter

VK2WF

Following on from the RagChew
VK3ACU

5:44pm

articles from Phil VK6GZ and Jordan

on passive CW filters, | thought the

following would

be of interest

to your readers.
The article is too long for the RagChew

newsletter, so instead, here’s a

DropBox link that will allow the article to be downloaded.

ABSTRACT

For the CW
Operator
making
possible that
ATNO QSO or
for digging
that
impossible
station out of
the noise
floor.

VK2WF CW SPEAKER | vo

Adrian Van

Der Byl

SYSTEM
Design & Construction

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ignore that request and select the Open

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Adrian
Adrian Van Der Byl VK2WF
vk2wf@bigpond.com

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Head
Compiled

Copy

see Articles below.

Practice

on the track somewhere

by John VK2RU

Anyone who is just starting out with head copy should look at edition 23 2025 where we first started with Winnie the Pooh recorded at 12 wom.

edition 23, and for a few following Newsletters, there are instructions on
how to use these files, and edition 25 - 2025
CW

has information on the Ditto

: Morse Player app.

This week we have the second

half of Chapter 6 Wind

in the Willows - Mr

Toad.
It is suggested that you read the text file before listening to the audio file.
That will make

it easier to follow the audio file, and will prepare you for

words such as wonted,

panoply, portcullis, halberds, murrain, and a few

others in Chapter 6 that could lead to some confusion.
The MP3 files have been recorded at 16 wom

and 650 Hz tone. If you

prefer a slower speed or different tone, you can create your own MP3 files
from the text file at any speed as noted below.
Because of MailChimp’s size limits, I’ve split Chapter 6 into 4 parts. Each
part is over 1 hour playing time @ 16 wom.

Parts 3 and 4 are attached

below.
If you'd like the full chapter in a single file, you can use the complete text
of Chapter 6 included in last week’s Newsletter, and convert it yourself
with the Ebook2CW app - https://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 Two MP3 files (second

half of Chapter 6)

e Two text files matching the MP3 segments

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 options work well, however 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 230-plus

readers.

Parks
From

The

Air

Mark VK2DI

G'day Mark.
Thanks for the call the other day. It was good to catch up, albeit fleetingly.

The photo is the activation spot
from where | worked, you— the
old cemetery of Prince Henry
Hospital. It was originally used to
bury victims of smallpox, as the
rule then was that people who
died of that disease had to be
buried on hospital grounds!
now part of Kamay

BB NP.

It's
/

The antenna

here is a half size

G5RV,

per side and 5.3m of

7.75m

high impedance

balanced feed

line to a balun and the AH-705
ATU. It seemed

to work pretty

well. Were you using a

full size

version?

A note for the group:
Whenever possible | try to get to a park on mid to late Tuesday afternoons
with a view to catching the early starters for the QRS group. To date |
haven't had a lot of success. If anyone does hear me (usually on 7032 or
7044) please give me a shout. If I'm calling CQ a bit quickly, just answer at
the speed you are comfortable with and I'll adjust accordingly.
POTA exchanges are a great way to practice since they're short and sweet.
Becoming

a POTA hunter is very easy - just monitor the spotting sites (esp.

parksnpeaks.org) and give activators a call and report - they’ll do all the
work with logs, you just need to make contact with them.

If you do want to

collect awards, sign up for a free account at http://pota.app.
73, Mark

[Thanks Mark;

I’m usually on 20m chasing the DXperimenters in Europe

and the UK at the start of the net - so / often miss you.
occasional Alert on our CQQRS

Perhaps an

WhatsApp Alerts group might bring some

callers from the group as wel!?

Li=15.55m

(Improved computer designed GSRV}

Li=i42m

Hz = 8.8m

fH} 300 0h *eonm

Feedpaint = 70 - 100 Ohm

L1 +12 = 24.35 m
ZSGBKW
Li=t424¢4m YH

H v2 = 13.30

Hi2=111m
3000h
H veoss

[]

And to answer your

ZSOBKW

GSRY

Feedpaint = 50 Ohm

L1+L2=27.54m
ZSOBKW
Li=1424¢4m
LH

LH L2 = 11.09

400 ohm

[]

Lit +L2 = 27.54m

450 ohm.

Li +L2=26.14m

li=13.75m

ZS6BKW

H L2 = 12.201

li=i4m

Hy} 450 0h “20h

LI +L2 = 25.95 m
ZS6BKW
Li=14.02m
YH

H ia = 12.19

450 chm.

Ld + L2 = 26.21m

H} 4500h “e0nm

antenna - it's a

Feedpaint = 50 Ohm

L1 + L2 = 26.20m
ZS6BKW
LH

LH i2 = 11.20

[]

300 chm.

Li +L2= 25.25 m

ome
FI

varian

question

li=14.05m

Hy 2 = 12.20 m

[]

Feedpaint = 50 Ohm

(Hamtenna)

doublet

out

Zz.
iW

S6.

B KI W

the

dimensions of the
radiator and the

feed-line are different to the original G5RV design to allow use on 80m, as
well as the WARC bands.

| look forward to catching up again on Tuesdays

from either Mozzie-land or your yacht mate. ]

Interesting

QRZ.com

Page

From Phil VK6GX

Hi Mark.

Over breakfast, | was tuning around on 20m this morning and

came across Eric NI4E, on the long path, having a great chat with another
W.

This prompted

me to look him up on QRZ.com.

Do yourself a favour and do

likewise, when you have a bit of spare time.
Some great advice there, for ALL CW operators and videos too. Checkout
the "Duelling Bugs" video.
My apologies for being absent from the net in recent weeks, too much
going on here this time of year, getting the place ready for summer.

| will

make every effort to be there tomorrow.
73, Phil VK6GX.

The

Phonetic Alphabet

The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

The

ZS6BKW

From

Andrew

Hi Mark.

I’ve seen you refer to the ZS6BKW

think the ZS6BKW
design.

Doublet

VK1DA

is now known

doublet as a G5RV variant.

in its own right as a recognised antenna

It’s actually between the double extended zepp (88ft) and the

G5RV (102 ft).
BIW cutting the feedline shorter by 2m makes the impedance

driveable by a good ATU on ALL HF bands other than 60m which we don’t
have.

That’s how I’ve been using mine ever since the ribbon feed-line got

too old and cracked to be usable.
Andrew VK1DA
[Thanks Andrew.

The fact that both you and VK2’s most prolific SOTA-CW

activator Gerard VK2/IO both have had so much success wuth the ZS6BKW
(usually in inverted-Vee form for ease of establishment) led me to give it a
try.

| usually take/waste much more time to get it up high and as

horizontal as possible than you both (to get the take-off angle down), but|
reckon that apart from the time taken, it’s the ducks-guts as an all-round
performance antenna for both portable use and for home. ]

Light Bulb?
From an anonymous

contributor.

Found in a first-year Bachelor of Psychology Exam.
Question 88.

How many QRS CW operators are needed to change a light bulb?
Please send your answers to RagChew for everyone to enjoy
... before the grim truth ts revealed.

Ops

Update

From Chris VK3QB,

CWops Oceania Ambassador

Hello everyone, and thanks to those who attended the Zoom

session on

the 27th.
Feedback has been positive which is great - again | apologise that our
guest was unable to attend, but | hope | was able to make the session
reasonably interesting and informative.
I'm chasing down

a guest for the November session - so stay tuned - if |

can book someone

it will be Monday

17? November at 0830UTC.

Also, for those interested in learning or improving their Morse Code | am
investigating the possibility of running classes at VK/ZL friendly times early
in 2026. If you're at all interested, drop me an email and/or complete this
Survey.
https://forms.gle/o2egMzBDp5BPh8aw5

73, Chris VK3QB
CW Ops # 2949

Www.cwops.org

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.
Everyone’s welcome - 3580kKHz at 7pm
time every Wednesday;

Eastern

you'll hear lots of the

CQQRS team on that net. Jordan VK3ACU has

cae
ae

aaa

Yo Ue

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.

CW Settle to Carlisle Railway Challenge,
From Stan ZL3TK

Week 7 Report

Last week Appleby-in-Westmoreland's station revealed it has a special feature, useful

and worth keeping but not used very often these days.

Plus, we got to see a 12th

century estate complete with a tall, square, stone keep built for the family of Ranulf
Le Meschin, the 3rd Earl of Chester.

This week, just north of Selkeld there's something really worth the stop at
Langwathby.

As neolithic stone circles go, Long Meg and her 68 daughters should

not be missed, they await your inspection.

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Other QTC sending options: live online or HF
Basic 250 points, with bonus points for live QTCs
Printable certificate issued to every participant
Infomation at bit.ly/cwstc

Long Meg and a few of her daughters

Very pleasing to hear participants week-by-week proving the value of participating in
the STC challenge. Admittedly, improvements in skill are personal and subjective,
however, if we equate sending quality as inversely proportional to the number of

repeat requests, then there's no mistaking that challenges such as STC work really

well as a training tool. Repeat requests, except any resulting from QRM
possible after every answer, are simply not happening.

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Not much from me this week — my XYL and | are off to ZL for 2 weeks on Saturday,

so we've been busy packing and getting organised. Registration for CW Academy
classes has been positive — if you’re interested check the news below.

CW Ops
CW Academy is a great learning environment, and CW Ops runs these classes three
times per year. If you’re at all interested, the next intake is in January 2026. I’m

running a survey until the middle of November to see if there is sufficient interest for
classes at VK/ZL friendly times. If you are at all interested in a class in January/

February 2026, please complete the survey.
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If you have any questions, please drop me an email. Courses are eight weeks long
and no matter your level, you'll come out the other side with better skills and more

enjoyment from the code. CW Academy is immersive, engaging and fun.
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As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please drop me an email.

73, Chris VK3QB & VK1CWO
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Wireless
Review

Institute of Australia

Launches

Major

Band

Plan

The WIA’s Technical Advisory Committee
Australian amateur radio band plans.

has advised of a review of the

Click on the link below for more

information and to get to the link to the TAC’s consultation document,

well as information on how to respond to the proposals.

WIA Launches Major Australian Amateur
Band Plan Review
Date : 29/10/2025
Author : WIA Technical Advisory Committee
WIA Launches Major Australian Amateur Band Plan Review
The last major revision of the Australian national Amateur Radio
band plans administered by the WIA was carried out almost a
decade ago. At that time, major changes were mostly made to
the 30m, 2m and 70cm bands.
With various changes to the Amateur Radio regulations since
that time, including some spectrum losses and gains, it is now
necessary to update the band plans to both reflect those
regulatory changes as well as update them with information on
current centres of activity. We have also used this as an
opportunity to address many of the requests that have been
received over the past 2-3 years for changes to various bands.
WIA TAC committee has reviewed each band and made
recommendations for changes where appropriate. Areas being
addressed include:

The WIA has opened the consultation from now until December

12th.

we saw with last year’s IARU consultation about proposed changes to the
40m

band, the Technical Advisory Committee

interested individuals and groups.

is keen to receive input from

We'll need to let the TAC know how

popular CW has again become to try to maintain a reasonable balance
between

our interests, and that of the more popular/ less challenging

modes.
Would one of our team

like or be available to review the consultation

document and let us know what’s needed

Mind Bending Puzzle Solved
From John VK2RU

please?

cqagrsnet@gmail.com

Stan’s Mind Bending Puzzle in Newletter 42 took a while to solve.
| originally copied this from the sound file- UNEH REH LLO
MEFVORP WAIFIE.-.- GOF SREHTOM
RDOQ EBFOS
TEWROL TOA SD TEF

WAIPPOH.-.- QV
OT UEIRT DOQ

Stan is an excellent operator, and there’s no way he would send a mistake like ‘.-.-‘ .

So he must have sent it on purpose. | looked through the letters in the message, and
found that C, J, K, X, Y and Z hadn’t been used. Presumably ‘.-.-‘ represented one of
those unused letters.
SREHTOM had my attention from the start and seemed to be a key. Then | noticed
that the Morse elements for all the letters in the word ‘mothers’ can be reversed and
still represent the same letter.
Then it clicked. ‘.-.-‘ is C in reverse.

From there it was downhill all the way. Working backwards from the end, and
reversing all the Morse, FET becomes LET, DS becomes US all the way through to
HENU which becomes HEAD.
So, we end up with a famous quote from Blackadder who was replying to Baldricks “I
have a cunning plan”
"LET US NOT FORGET YOU TRIED TO
SOLVE YOUR MOTHERS LOW CEILING
PROBLEM BY CHOPPING OFF HER HEAD"
With a bit of luck that little exercise has
reactivated a couple of brain cells, or at
worst, slowed the decay in the few still
remaining.

73
John
VK2RU

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

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Readable

Five

What have you been reading lately?

Compiled

Practice

on the track somewhere

by John VK2RU

or Talent?

From Roy VK6RR
Lui

NAA+L

Carns

Far

nant

KAINAN

CIA

aArtiven

Ait

RAArINnAN

Daeriian

Mark.

OVITY

TUL

VEMIY

VELTy

volunteer work has become

ACLIVE

WNO

ease and a few of the hats | wear will be moved
having to cover IT, Coms,

VUL

WIGAIIe

Nescue

more or less full time. Hopefully soon it will
on - at the moment

| am

Roster manager and new Radio op trainer.

besides doing up to 40hrs of radio watch

in a week due to lack of

volunteers!!!

Fingers crossed that it will ease

This is taking a lot of time!!

soon.
Thanks for all your efforts Mark.
73
Roy

Margaret Atwood

on CW?

OCTOBER

BY DAN

15, 2025

KB6ONU 2 COMMENTS

| like to read nonfiction by great writers. So, when

| found the book,

Burning Questions and Occasional Pieces by Margaret Atwood on the shelf
at the Ann Arbor District Library, | picked it up. Margaret Atwood - for those
of you who don’t know her - is a renowned
well-known for her book,

Canadian author, perhaps most

The Handmaid's Tale, which has been adapted for

both film and TV.
Burning Questions and Occasional Pieces is a collection of essays. In the
essay, Five Visits to the Word-Hoard, Atwood talks about how she writes
and what makes a successful writer. She says,
You can work at a thing, and you can learn it. But, only up to a point.
Beyond that comes the talent, which Is a given. It’s there or it isn’t there,
in varying quantities, and it can’t be predicted or demanded,

and it is not

reasonable and predictable, and it can be with you at one point in your life
and then vanish. Practising a craft can awaken a dormant talent.
Conversely,

too much practising can kill it. Such matters are incalculable,

and much depends on coincidence and luck.
| think that operating Morse Code is kind of like this. Most everyone can
learn how to send and receive the code, but not everyone is going to be
able to operate at 50+ words per minute. To do that, it takes some talent.
But, even if you have a talent for the code, you need to practice to realize
that talent.
As for awakening

a dormant talent, you may never Know that you have a

talent for Morse Code unless you try it. Back in the 1970s, we didn’t have a
choice as to whether we wanted to try it or not. That’s not the case today,
so if you're a licensed radio amateur,

I’d encourage you to give it a try. It

might wake up that CW operator inside you.
As far as too much

practice killing your desire to operate Morse Code, I'd

say that there’s some truth in that, too. If you think that you’re overdoing
it, back off a little. Knowing

Morse Code is not a matter of life and death,

after all. It’s just another part of our hobby, and hobbies are supposed to
be fun.
Related

Posts:

Things | found while twittering

Amateur radio videos: Ham

radio in Lego World, making satellite

contacts, learning difficult CW characters
3.

Operating

Notes: WOW!,

1x4 callsigns

How

to help kids learn CW?

If you’ve read something that you think might be of interest to our readers,
please let me know so John and | can share more thoughts and ideas.
guidance on writing for RagChew,
material

to Mark VK2KI:

see Articles below.

For

Please email

cqgqrsnet@gmail.com

Prosign/Character/Sig
nal of the Month
See

if you

Prosign:

Meaning:

Stand

can

use this one on Tuesday!

oe]

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

Tell us how you went!]

| Hear
You

never know

Tell...
who’s

Ok, I'll tell you a story about my stupidity!

listening!

Here we were, setting up camp

at the beautiful Edi Cutting free campsite in Victoria’s King Valley.

Pouring rain on the way down from Bright on the Great Alpine Road, which
finally let up by the time we got here.

Found a nice spot on the river and

positioned our little AVan and jacked it level enough - all good.

Then for whatever reason, | decided to uncouple Elizabeth’s Forester can’t recall exactly why, but there must have been a reason which had
something to do with the Moyhu

Pub, about 12km

back up the road - too

far to walk.
l’d jacked up the front of the van to level it, but because of the angle of the
dangle, the

tow hitch wouldn’t uncouple.

So while Ms E wound-up the rear

stabiliser jacks on the van, | jacked up the front of the van until the weight
of the car was enough to release the tow hitch.

All good so far.

| had been facing the AVan to wind up the jockey wheel, and soon enough
the tow ball came out of the hitch.

Luckily | turned around

in time to see

that Ms E’s Forester had decided to obey the laws of gravity - it was ona
slope and was rolling off quietly and happily toward a steep 2m bank down
to the King River.
| scampered

off after it;

luckily, the driver’s side door was unlocked, and |

could turn the steering wheel until the ignition lock engaged, then hoik on
the hand-brake!

This time the forces of friction beat the forces of gravity,

and the car stopped with the off-side front wheel on the edge of the river
embankment.

Phew!

But what a laugh!

Did | tell you that my last career role was as the risk-management advisor
to the head of a very large Government organisation?

Ha!

Lesson to me.... never, never uncouple the van without checking

both the

van and the car’s hand-brakes!
Dit-dit
Mark, VK2KI

/ VK6QI

[lf you have some intel about other team members...

or even yourself...

that’s worth sharing, please let me know cggrsnet@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 0600z until

about 1200z;

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

Details page for details.

Coordinated Universal Time

—

0600z to 1200z

(Note - 20m DXperiments will start at a different time if required)

Australia

Western Australia Time

UTC + 8 Hours

1400 to 2000

Central Australian Time

UTC +10.5 Hours |

1630 to 2230

Eastern Australian Time

UTC + 11 Hours

1700 to 2300

Queensland Time

UTC + 10 Hours

1600 to 2200

NZ Time

UTG + 13 Hours

1900 to 0100

New Zealand

Frequency

0600z to 0900z

20m

14039-14051 kHz

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

ot |

0600z to 1200z

160m

T7To20
|}

;

3500

QRO

ee |

|_|

CO ORS Net

3560

CO ORS Net
1855

Thanks to Lance VK7TO for the COQAS

1875

band-plan

2200z - 2300z
(Tusaday
UTC)

Wednesday (VK/ZL)
ee

7040
a

3535

80 m -

160 m

ORO

1800

3535kHz ~ 3560kHZ
1855kHz (-5kHz for QRM)

7TOoo00

40m

WA EM AllStar Network
(Use AllStar to connect to 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.
have fun.

We'll

There's usually people around until after 1200z - 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

& Photos

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 how about helping to make the reports even more interesting by
sending a photo?

If you have a photo that you’d be happy to include,

please email it to:
caarsnet@gmail.com

To make it even easier for our Reports editor Patrick VK2IOW,

see if you

can reduce the size of the image (to less than 100KB file size by
preference).

No problems if your computer or phone can’t do that - just

send it through anyway please.
And of course, I’m always on the lookout for more photos for the
newsletter, so if you have something that might be of interest aside from
the reports, please send it through as well - | always enjoy the photos that
our readers send - and I’m sure our readers do too.
cggrsnet@gmail.com

Email them to

please (reduced size if possible - but whatever you

send will be great).
Oh and by the way, | recommend
website open

that you don’t keep the Reports Form

between submission of reports from one week to the next.

you’re unlucky, there’s an undocumented

feature in the software that

could cause your current week’s report to be combined

with your previous

report - it’s happened to your editor several times - much to the chagrin of
our Reports editor

Post

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

You bet!

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

or as little as needed.

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
want).

Our website also includes a

you feed to the Al to make

it do what you

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.

Material
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

newsletter.

Teamwork
Thank you so much to our team of 31 contributors:

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MONNK,

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VK3ACU,

VK3BWN,

VK3CTM,

VK3DRQ,

VK2RU, VK2WF,

VK3ECH, VK3QB, VK3WOW,

VK4PN, VK5A0O, VK5ET,

VK5FD, VK5KFG, VK6FN, VK6GX, VK6HRC, VK6KD, VK6KHZ,
VK6RR, VK7TA, VK7TO
team, Nigel G4RWI

and ZL3TK.

Morsition) and Lance VK7TO

VK6NQL,

And a special thank you to our editorial

(head of software development),

(reports coordinator), John VK2RU

VK1DA,

Patrick VK2IOW

(researcher), Richard VK6HRC

(technical editor).

(Post

Great work all!

€U CW on Tuesday,

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Mark

Bosma

VK2KI / VK6QI

Beautiful South Bowning

cagrsnet@gmail.com

NSW

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