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From This week’s

Demonstration

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Home

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Head

Copy

May

Have a Problem
Plan Review

HamFeast

Family Travels

e Settle to Carlisle Railway,
e Geomagnetic
e

Filter

Practice

Major Band

e Quinninup

Passive CW

Gear Still Works

Report

e Snowline

e WIA

Net

or Not To Speed?

Post Morsum

Morse

e The

Activity

Code Training

Fullerphone

Net

Pd
a

Week

8 Report

RSS

Di-dah-di-dah-dit

e About the CQ QRS

Group

Well home again after three weeks of caravan camping;
even success on air from the three sites.
Victoria to dry NSW,

but then back to green Beautiful South Bowning...

except for three weeks’ worth of weeds at my place;
enough

lots of fun, and

Interesting to go from green
| don’t know if | have

heartbeats left to get it all done!

So from the looks of things, once again, some people had good conditions
on air on Tuesday, others not so;
anyway.

but by all reports, fun was to be had

Next week, who knows what will happen - I’ve included two

propagation warnings from Space Weather Services below.

Thank you so

much to every person who took the time to get on air on Tuesday,
a listen - and an especial nod to those who submitted

or have

reports for our

reading pleasure.
And speaking of reading pleasure, | smiled when
team

lamenting about the RagChew

| overheard one of our

newsletter - it just takes so long to

read that he needed to take a break part way through every week.

This

week’s edition is a little shorter - but thank you to the 31 contributors this
week for making the problem

possible once again.

So this week we have yet another nudge about home-made
filters;

Nic VK7WW

Printed version;

passive CW

had sent us a demonstration of Jordan VK3ACU’s

as you'll see, the chamber makes the signal just jump out!

| hear tell that there’s yet another one out there - one of our team
small speaker at the bottom of a Milo tin!

has a

For those of us using older

receivers for which CW filters are made of unobtainium, there might be
something there.

| wonder how many CW filters have ended

up in rubbish

dumps over the years! Many of us use (and swear by) headphones for
CW... hmmm, two Milo cans? Lucky no-one’s watching.
This week

also take a look at lan VKLHF’s

available for net users:

Masthead

nice work, thanks

new

KiwiSDR

that he’s made

lan.

Image

Heading toward Corowa from Edi Cutting Campground

in Victoria this

week, we couldn’t help but smile at the sign at the bridge over Diddah
Diddah Creek.

Turns out that Diddah

Creek as well.

The strange things that appeal to us Morse Codians!

New Team

Members

Welcome this week to Darcy VK6DSM

Diddah Creek joins Daddah

Daddah

who hails from South Fremantle.

Darcy was introduced to the group by Morgan VK6MTF;

welcome

mate

and | hope we hear more about your CW journey soon.

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/COORSNET

To make your report more interesting, please consider sending a photo to be
attached.

If you have a photo that you'd be happy to include, please email it

to:

cqqrsnet@gmail.com
To make

it even easier for Patrick and Mark, see if you can compress or

reduce the size of the image (preferably to less than 100KB file size).

problems if your computer or phone can’t do that - just send it through
anyway please.
So, please help attract new and old team
Submitting your report each week.

members to have a go by

Submissions close 1300 (Eastern

Australian Summer time) on Thursdays.
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
cgarsnet@gmail.com

NSW

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Reports

& Comments

Here’s this week’s

Last Tuesday’s

Group

Here’s the 63 stations heard by 45 members

eae
Team
Member

Qso 1

Qso 2

aso 3

DL/MONNK | Workea20om | VK3DBD | VK7WW | VK3BSE

DL/MONNK
DL3YZ

Heard 20m
Worked

20m

reports.

ZL3TK
ZL3TK

Qso4

of our team on Tuesday:

Qso 5

Qso 6

Qso7

Qso 8

Tried 20m
Worked 40m
Heard 40m

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in the team

members’

reports (submitted via our webform

bit.ly/CQOORSNET ) follow:
Comments:
This week’s comments from our webform
us by Patrick VK2IOW;

reports have been compiled for

busy time of year with shearing (sheep? busy.

alpacas? whew - complicated!) happening - so thanks for sorting this out
for us again Patrick.

From Mike DL3YZ at Stuttgart / Germany
[20m]
Thie

marninna

tha

FWY

wiindavarvusrace

Ananina

littl

latar

than

an”

jee
di

HN HNUIIY WIG WA WHWUW wee UpoIy a mus auc

ual

usual, so | was not able to hear my signal on the SDR

lronstone at first. Or any VK stations up here in Stuttgart.
Only some local traffic. About 15 min later, it slowly started
up. | was pleased to work Stan ZL3TK. Still very weak on
both sides, but we got along. When Ross took over the key
after some minor troubles with the internet connection, he

was more lucky with the condx.
They were getting to their normal state, and | was happy he was busy working VK
stations for more than 1 hr. | will check the timing of the DX window during the
following days, just to see if we should adapt the schedule for the next Tuesday.
Have a great week ! 73 Mike.

From Ross DL/MONNK at Exeter UK via Stuttgart Germany
[20m]
Initially | had difficulties connecting to DL3YZ Mike's radio
over the internet but Mike sorted that for me whilst finishing
his own DX shift - thanks, Mike. | then had a very pleasant
hour of DX, speaking with three stations, two of which were

new to me. Apparently radio conditions were challenging in
Australia, so | consider myself especially fortunate to have
gotten these contacts - thanks, chaps!

From George VK2AOE at Sydney
[40m]
| got on the trusty Yaesu FT101E. Despite barely acceptable

VSWR managed one QSO with Chris in chilly Canberra!

From

Nic VK7WW

at Legana, TAS

[20m]
Pr

wlan

arthritic

mirwariot

poeinga

Arace

noaindarl

And

atill

aat

onnh

thrill

Yiu,

QUO

Wilolt,

USIIY

MVIadoo

VWUUNIUIGI:

| OU

YOt

OUUIT

LITT

having a DX contact into Europe - especially on QRS night! ...even when | lose it

momentarily 23
[40m]
Using a 3d printed resonant audio cavity from
Jordan VK3ACU - So easy to listen to CW! Thanks
Jordan c&
Say
=
PS,

Click to start video

From your editor Mark VK2KI back home at Beautiful South Bowning NSW
[20m]
This week there was a BOM Space Weather
Services prediction of HF propagation problems
due to a solar flare rotating back into view;

well

certainly things were different to the previous few
weeks.

Mike DL3YZ was coming through to a

Reverse Beacon Network receiver in New
Zealand,

but here in Southern

NSW

weak - RSN 211 on QSB peaks.

he was very

Unlike the last

two weeks where Mike was able to work my
5 Watt portable station down in Victoria, he just couldn't hear my 50 Watts from home
this week.
About an hour later, Ross DL/MONNK was coming through slightly better (RSN 311
on QSB peaks). | noticed that Ross was a nice RSN 551 into the VK5PH Ironstone
Range KiwiSDR network, and heard him working Nic VK7WW - great to hear Nic
(who often listens in and does the right thing sending reports) on air this week.

I'm

starting to suspect a Faraday Curtain along the VIC/NSW border, watching how the

signals came through to the Southern States but not where | am;

the same thing

seems to happen when 40m opens up from VK6 to the East as well - or perhaps it's
my station?

Awhile later | heard Ross working Warren VK3BYD (I think) in Wangaratta, and
heard him spelling the location of the Remote - STUTTGART;

| wondered whether

Ross had to write it down before sending it? And Mike tells me that 'Stute' means
‘mare’, so Stuttgart translates to "Garden of the mares" - just in case you were

wondering!
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ORTHWOOD

| wonder what 'Wangaratta’ translates to?

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with Mark VK2DI/P at
Bradley's Head Historic

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Harbour.

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Bradley's Head Site on Sydney Harbour

Mark was trying out his new Elecraft KX-2 and G5SRV
doublet. He was aiming for ten contacts (to 'activate' the
park) but had only managed eight.
| jokingly said "I'll see if my home gear still works" on
WhatsApp;

well, sure enough,

it didn't!

When

| went to

transmit to adjust my antenna coupler, my TS-120S just sat

there!

Hmm - was | doing something wrong?

It worked

four weeks ago for the last net before | went away!

Hmmm

- checked that the key plug hadn't been pulled out of the

socket - nope. Ok, tried shorting the terminals on the key
with a letter opener.... voila!

Hmmm... abittacrap on the

contacts. Found a convenient Post-It note and gave the
contacts a bit of a rub... success!

.
VK2DI/P with KX-2 rig and

GPR antenna

There was a storm passing through so the next

challenge was to adjust my coupler - no-sooner was the SWR dipped and the power
output peaked, it would change again as the wet feed-line support rope possibly

dried with the RF, then got wetted by the rain.

Anyway, finally on air - Mark reported that he could hear me RSN 552, but he was
extraordinarily weak here.

I'm sure some readers will have experienced CW that's so

weak, you can only just sense that it's there. There was a bit of QSB and | managed
to get his callsign and the occasional number, but we didn't complete the exchange.
The predicted solar flare at work | suspect.

We gave 20m a

quick optimistic try - but

no luck there.
| was pleased to hear that both Jordan VK3ACU and Peter VKSWOW

came to Mark's

rescue and provided the last two contacts before Mark was taken away by mozzies
again.
[40m]
After returning from 20m, | had a listen around on 40m - very quiet compared to
normal.

However, a CQ returned the distinct sound of a transmitter being netted on

frequency, and | was called by Paul VK3KLE from Stawell using his Johnson Viking
transmitter. Paul started out only RSN 311, but the signals got better as we went and by the time we finished | was missing only the occasional letter.
After dinner, | listened around but the band was pretty quiet - just a small hand-full of
QRS QSOs going on.

calling CQ.

Nice to have a

long chew of the rag with Peter about the long weekend in Victoria.

| came across Peter VASWOW

After Peter |

tuned around 40m for a while listening to the few QSOs, and heard Wayne VK6NW
calling CQ; | tried as hard as | could - pressed the key quite hard, but to no avail Wayne couldn't hear me.
[80m]
When | slipped down to 80m there was not much activity heard or seen on the
KiwiSDRs | was watching.

After sorting out my antenna coupler and phasing noise

canceller, | heard Sava VK4PN calling CQ;

signals were way down compared to

normal, and Sava's signals into the VK5PH

Ironstone Range and VK6SEG

were quite a bit stronger than mine;

KiwiSDRs

I'll have to check my antenna again tomorrow!

However, the wet rope supporting the 40m long run of 300 Ohm TV ribbon feed-line
feeding my Double-Extended Zepp probably wasn't helping.

From Martin VK3FG at Mt Waverley
[40m]
Crna

daw

vanill

ranlann

revs

ninemoa

tha

athar

oda

WIIG

UaCy

WHI

IGVIGQUe

TIly

Viconia

VIG

VU!

OMG

of the wall to my radio :-)

From Wayne VK6NW at Bridgetown
[40m]
40m sigs were ok with some east coast stations strong and
some not so. Good to meet Philip, Armin and Mark for the
first time, thanks guys.

[80m]
Lots of QRN on 80m resulting a very high noise level.

From

David VK6KD

at Ballajura, Perth WA

[40m]

Not as active as | though it would be. Not much QRN.
[80m]
Lots of static crashes heard on 80m. A thunderstorm hit
my QTH so the night was cut short with antennas

First CW QO

disconnected for safety reasons.

| had early scouted

around on the SA SDR receivers.

It appeared quite

active over there on both 40 and 80m although | was
unable to hear the stations at my QTH on my receiver.

Good receiving practice. 73

From Stan ZL3TK at Waitarere Beach
[20m]
Cianale

fram

Adilba

TAI

harrahs

randahin

DON

449

viyl

TIVITTIWING

WLW

Vaicly

(CQauUuaMit

PlwWIn

just enough to swap reports otherwise QNP.
until 0710Z but didn't hear Ross MONNK.

Lic,

Listened

[40m]
Band conditions fantastic for east coast but took a while
to warm up elsewhere.

Wayne, VK6NW strongest of WA stations with a very nice

RSN 571

From Sava VK4PN at Mount Ommaney Brisbane
[20m]
Got on air only 10 minutes before the end of suggested time slot for EU QRS DX
experiment so had no time to check RBN.

Scanned the 14.040 to 14.050 segment,

nothing but noise so the party was already over. Anyway called CQ at 14.047 just in
case our EU friends were still monitoring, no luck but managed two quick QSOs with
IK2ILH and ZL1IM before dropping to 40m.
[40m]
After my brief stay on 20m | moved to 40m at around 17:20. The band was noisy and
SDR at Marahau (ZL) did not show much traffic either. So this time | did not switch to

QRP; | called a few CQs using my main rig at 120W. Managed two quick QSOs with
VKS3KLE and VK2GAS

both relatively strong at S6/7 but the local noise was similar, |

had to switch off the AGC else | couldn't copy them. Next QSO was ZL3TK who was
booming in and to my surprise he told me | was too - during our QSO and during the
ZLCW net which he participates in. | could see my trace on Marahau SDR waterfall
but it did not look that strong! Next QSO was with John, VK3BSE who was very keen
to rag chew and we had a marathon QSO. He said he was trying to improve his
Morse on air but | found him very good already, the speed wasn't great but he copied
everything and his keying was rhythmic and easy to read. Last QSO on 40 m was a
quick exchange with VK5CZ followed by a long pause before moving to 80 due to
other commitments.

[80m]

Could not get back on air until well after 9 pm Brisbane time. Checked Ironside SDR
» sa

first, waterfall looked reasonable, not that much noise

_ there and my trace was solid red. Promising! Called
numerous CQs but no results despite RBN showing spots
in ZL and Fiji. Finally reliable (as usual) Mark, VK2KI
responded, but the signal was at the noise level. We

struggled through a QSO disrupted with strange fades
lasting only a few characters but enough to obliterate
words. Mark was not QRFP this time, he reported 50W but
| did not ask him if he was working from his usual QTH
(when working from home his signal is much stronger and easier to copy). It was
already after 10 pm local; meaning time in VK6 was two hours behind, so | paid more
attention to Ironside SDR. There was a trace indicating a QSO in progress; segments
of red trace followed up by segments of faint green trace. | could copy VK6NW but
VK6KD was down in noise at my QTH. QSO with Wayne topped up an interesting
evening. Propagation can be strange at times; VK6NW from the other side of the
continent running 120w was 2 S points better at my QTH than VK2KI running 50w
only down the road. That is only about 3 dB difference in power, theoretically not
even an S point.

From

David VK3RU

at Burwood Vic

[40m]
| found it a bit quiet, maybe the solar conditions.

EE Re Se

RD PR

From Manny VK3DRQ at Backburn
[20m]

No signals detected from OMs Mike or Ross.

[40m]
“1

Conditions this time, for me at least, were more
i stable and it was nice to be able to copy OM Rob all

the way from Echuca, this time without problems.

From Peter VK6NQL at Wundowie
[80m]
it would be nice to hear a few more WAs on 80m at night-time

From

Daniel VK6WE

at Cottesloe
[40m]

Technical problems intervened today with my straight key not
working so | had to rely on the KX3 paddle. This resulted in
numerous errors when | didn't release a paddle before
sending an extra signal. Some of my messages must have
been confusing. It seems like you have to concentrate more
using a paddle.

From Peter Dann VK3WOW

at Blackburn

[40m]
It has taken time, but | am now able to conduct at least

some QSOs at speeds above "QRS" (say, 20 wpm, or
sometimes even 25 wpm). This presents an interesting
conundrum for me (and, | suspect, for some other ops
who show up on Tuesday evening who have been

capable of sending above QRS speeds for decades), namely, at what speed should |
call CQ on the Tuesday net, and what should | do if my CQ is answered by an op
who | know is capable of 20+ wpm?
md

few

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wen

nth.

Lwin

efi

Should | conduct a QSO at, say, 12-15 wpm or
PAPA

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practice at copying at such speeds, or is it OK to speed up and consolidate my
nascent skills at a faster speed without a QSY to a lower frequency?
On Tuesday, | called CQ at 12 wpm and was answered immediately by OM Mait
VK5AO,

who

| know can work faster than that. | moved to 18 wpm,

and Mait to 15

wpm, and we had a long, pleasant chat.
On the same frequency (inside our window on 40 metres), | heard OM lan VK5CZ
calling at 20 wpm and answered him at that speed. As lan explained, and | should
have realised anyway, he is a regular with the QRS group and often does slow down
well below that for other ops. | was enjoying the zing of sending at 20 wom, and the
fact that it's way easier to head copy at a speed like that than for a slower speed, and
so we both stayed at around 20 wpm for at least 30 minutes.
Not long after, | again put out a CQ at 12 wpm, and was immediately answered by Mr
AVan himself (OM Mark, wearing his VK2KI hat), safe home after a late encounter
with the madding hordes who had invaded his and Elizabeth's lovely peaceful
camping ground on account of a long weekend associated with some donkey race.
Mark was using around 15 wpm character speed, | would guess, but a significantly
slower word speed — and we had a lovely chat, including about his near death
experience (from surprise, | gather) following a good DX experience with OM Ross
on the road.
| found the night very satisfying. | got to challenge myself at the top end of my
sending/receiving range through a couple of rag chews, but also took part ina

meaningful exchange at a true QRS speed also. Did | do the right thing? This is such
a polite group of radio amateurs (compared to some!) | will probably never know —
but | do put the question out there.
[80m]
Nice to be able to fit in a quick response to a WWFF call from OM Gerard VK2IO/P,
who managed to find himself a clear slot in our pretty crowded niche of the spectrum

during the evening.

From John VK3BSE at Somers
[40m]
Mawain

\VIL¢Q

RAalnAniirna

ara

moda

aan

thhia

halidavw

far

“a

haron

reannaA

than

WUVWITTHT

VING

WIGINUULIIG

aicva

rucbouUday

Wwao

VUNIIY

IWiuUay

MVloU

lave,

WITT

also no Scouts so | had a night with the key.
Condx were fairly gud so | listened to many of
you and scribbled 4 1/2 pages so there was
plenty of good (slow) practice, VY TNX.
While copying the QTH of VK3JFR,

| was

wondering where this word is going - HI: Ararat.
All good fun.
On 40m | had a good QSO with Sava VK4PN.
mentioned

| first learned CW on an AWA

Fisk Radiola, model R701, circa 1937. This

is the "Table model". Picture attached. | built a BFO for it using an IF transformer.
BTW, I'm changing QTH to Beechworth in December so the Somers aerials will be
coming down soon.

From

Paul

VK3KLE

at Stawell

[40m]
Worked 40m QRS net with Johnson valiant and
vibroplex bug with additional weights.

From

lan VK7TA

at Latrobe

[40m]
VK3JFR,

James,

and | had some fun with some

paddle-to-bug

interspersed with the slower Morse. The biggest signal of the
night came from Manny, VK3DRQ, S9+10dB.

From Richard VK6HRC at Padbury
[40m]
Unfortunately had to sign off early to entertain a visitor,
looking forward to next week.

POST MORSUM

5th November

From Richard VK6HRC.
Six on the VK6RLM

repeater and Echolink combination this morning.

VK6KD

David

VK6FN

Max

VK6QI

Mark

VK6NW

Wayne

VK6HRC
VK6MRB

Mulligan swl and others.

The AllStar link had dropped out so | gave David a call on the VK6RLM repeater
as he was on his way to work and got his report and then onto Echolink to catch
up with the rest of the crew.
David worked four on 40m and one on 80m and also made

use of a VK5

lronstone Range Kiwi sdr to monitor activity over there.
Max called in from a waterlogged Manjimup to let us Know he worked five on
40m before pulling the big switch.
Mark back home after his trip away did not repeat last weeks success on 20m as
conditions were not favourable. Worked two on 40m heard eight and one on 80m
and as usual kept busy spotting on WhatsApp !
Wayne worked six on 40m, two on 80m with QRN from the massive electrical
storm making life difficult.
| managed to catch up with Max on 40m and later on was listening to Wayne
chatting to Peter VK6IS hoping to catch up with them when they signed but a

visitor dropped in so that was the end of my QRS evening.

At the end of the net Max and the others commented on the great work Mark is
doing in the background with the Ragchew newsletter and other QRS work,
much appreciated by us all thank you.
Thank you to all on last night and this morning, stay safe.
73 Richard

This Week’s

Topic

interest
Snowline
Another

KiwiSDR

Useful Receiver
by lan VK1HF

for Our

Net.

On the back of your editor’s request for a
little info on the SnowlineSDR site, I’ve
made

up an info page and took a few

pics etc (XYL who subscribes to the
RagChew

newsletter took them!).

https://snowlinesdr.vk1hf.com/

Click to open the website.

Senge

(

ne}

Griffith

endigo

\ \:

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x

~¥

Ballarat.

als
®

{™
SD
YE k
ios

fe:

_Melbour

The SDR is in a nice quiet location near
Dry Plain NSW and Is connected to a
40m

dipole oriented East-West for the

time-being.
CQQRS

team

members

are most

welcome to use the receiver at any time.
Here’s the link to the SnowlineSDR:
http://snowlinesdr.vkLhf.com:8073/
73,
lan - VKLHF

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

cqgqrsnet@gmail.com

On
Houston,

My Workbench
May

Have

a Problem

for

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 know;
email to

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Who’s

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on the other end?

From your editor Mark VK2KI / VK6QI
Key to the success of our net is helping to make
people enjoy returning to each week.

it a get-together that

But when you’re on the key, It’s

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

members

How did they

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

Interested in CW?

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

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

how it can be made

better?

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Mark VK2KI know:
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Head
Compiled

Copy

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 wpm.

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

: Morse Player app.

This week we have Wind
of Dawn.

tn the Willows Chapter 7- The Piper at the Gates

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 prepare you for any

unusual words.
The MP3 files have been recorded at 16 wpm

and 650 Hz tone. If you

prefer a slower speed or different tone, you can create your own MP3 files
by converting the text file with the Ebook2CW

app -

https://fkurz.net/ham/ebook2cw.html.

Because of MailChimp’s size limits, I’ve split Chapter 7 into 3 parts. Each
part is over 1 hour playing time @ 16 wpm.
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

will.

attachments

are:

e Chapter 7 split into three MP3 files
e Chapter 7 in one text file

You can either play the MP3 files in any media
into the Ditto CW:

player, or load the text file

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,

1.5x, 1.75x).

Other
Other things we’ve

News

received

from

our 230-plus

readers.

Wireless

Institute of Australia

Launches

Major Band

Plan

Review
Update from Last week’s RagChew

This announcement is by Grant VK5GR,

son

on behalf of the WIA Technical Advisory

Committee and appeared in a recent WIA
Broadcast. Please consider making a
SU b mM

al” Auman Arai

elie
ees

on:

has reviewed each band and made

This is Grant VK5GR, your WIA Technical Advisory Committee Chairperson,
with some

news about a community consultation being launched

looking at

changes to the Australian Amateur Radio band plans.
It has been some years now since a wholesale review of our band plans
has been conducted.

In that time, we have seen various changes

made to

what radio spectrum amateur radio operators can access, and under what
conditions they can access It. We have also received various requests for
changes, or recognition of various activities on the band plans from
members

of the Australian amateur radio community. As a result, we have

decided to conduct a wide-ranging

review of the existing band plans, and

are proposing various changes across almost all bands, addressing one of
a number of issues that have arisen since the last series of changes
several years ago.
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

for changes where appropriate. Areas being addressed
«

recommendations
include:

Better highlighting centres of activity for various modes - particularly AM

and Emergency call channels on the HF bands
«

Reviewing

band plans vs current on air practice to see if better

alignment can be achieved (630m,
«

160m

and others)

Revising bands where new spectrum access has been obtained (the

lower 2MHz of 6m for Standard calls)
«

Revising bands where spectrum

MHz of the 9cm
«

has effectively been lost (upper 200

band)

Provision of alternate narrow band segments on 13 and 9 cm to help

with adjacent band interference scenarios
*« Revising usage recommendations

given our secondary service

obligations (23cm, 9cm)
« Adding

new segments for new areas of interest (FM repeaters on 13, 9, 6

and 3cm)
«

Promotion of new or revised wireless broadband segments

(13, 6 & 3

cm)
«

Revision of ATV Segments considering the extensive adoption of Digital

ATV modes today
«

Review of repeater sub-bands and the growth of digital voice hotspots

on 2m and 70cm
«

Provision of band plan data for the Microwave mm

(24-134

GHz)

showing

current centres

wavelength

bands

of activity

Along with this, the intention has been to improve the way the band plans
are presented visually to make them simple to understand and follow.
Feedback on the new presentation style is also most welcome!
So, as you can see, a lot has happened

since the last wholesale review.

Now, this is your opportunity to have a say in areas where you have an
interest. We are looking for feedback on the proposals so that we can
determine which changes to take forward and which to leave behind.
The

Process

The consultation process will be conducted

as follows:

1. The paper was released publicly via the WIA website on October 17th
2. Consultation

responses can be sent to

wia.tac.consultations@gqmail.com
3. Responses will be accepted from any licenced radio amateur or amateur
radio club based

in Australia only. This is a domestic

matter and is not

relevant to people outside of Australia.
4. While requests for clarification on any of the material will be answered,
discussion on alternative proposals will only be received, and then be
considered after the deadline closes.
5. The Consultation will remain open to receive responses up until
December

12th.

6. Responses will not be published;

however, they may be used as input to

the outcomes & recommendations

paper that is expected to be published

before January 31st 2026.
7. A final revised Australian

Amateur

Service

Band

Plan will then

published by the end of the first quarter of 2026.
So, over to you! Your input is valuable so now it’s time for you to have your
Say.
How

can

| reply?

The consultation will be open until December

12th and is open to All VK

radio amateurs.

Details of the consultation content and process are now

available on the WIA website. So, if you are interested to see what is
proposed, and wish to have a Say, take a look at the WIA website, read the
consultation paper and then consider making a submission. We would

love

to hear from you!
On the WIA TAC Consultations page, there is a feedback form you can
download

and fill out. This, when

read in conjunction with the review

paper, will guide you to answering the questions being asked about each
proposed change.
Head over to:
http://www.wia.org.au/members/tac/consultation/
for more information.

You can also download

a copy of the consultation

document at this Link and download a copy of the feedback template at
this Link

Angelo Giuffre

VK2NWT

The national association for

WIA

Co-

Amateur Radio in Australia

Affiliated

Clubs

ordinator

The Wireless

founded

WE}a /]

Institute of Australia,

The Wireless Institute of Australia

in 1910

A member society of the
International Amateur
Radio Union
Founding member of the

M: +61 4 1927 8690

IARU - Region 3

Clubs@NationalOffice.WIA.org.au

the IARU!

BANDS

ae
NO

HOBBY!!

Southern

Electronics Group

Get-Together

From Rob VK6LD
Hi All,
Just a reminder that it is less than two weeks to go until Manjimup
(Quinninup)

Ham

Feast on 17 November 2025.

Thank you to those who have sent their food pre-orders to me.
still contemplating the menu
8.00am

next Monday

choices, please have your selections to me by

10 November 2025 to send to the chef.

The menus can be found at:
Main Menu:

https://quinninuptavern.com.au/main-menu/

Burger Menu:

https://quinninuptavern.com.au/lunch/

Many thanks and look forward to see everyone at Quinninup.
73,
Rob...
VK6LD

Family Travels
From

If you are

Martin VK3FG

An image from a recent road trip around

NSW,

a token go with my QCX

mag

loop from Forbes and also

Nambucca

rig and

- a tenuous contact with

David VK3RU

was the result but glad |

took it and will keep trying next trip.

ie Techep Renee Tgp ch

a
A most enjoyable
circuit with a greater
focus on scenery,
sea views, food and
wine. Garden shot is
from an Air BnB just
out from Forbes that
recently sold so may
no longer be
available.
Regards,
Martin
VK3FG

Settle to Carlisle Railway,

Week

8 Report

From Stan ZL3TK
Not many things move
video succeeded.

me emotionally,

Watch

it at

however this week a youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=IXPSSMO0e-E
It shows the famous

Mallard, designed

by and named for the equally

famous Sir Nigel Gresley, taking an enthusiasts' excursion on the Settle
and Carlisle line in all her restored glory, traversing viaducts, plunging into
tunnels and passing by the stations we have been exploring during the STC
Challenge.

Mallard still holds the world speed record she set on July 3,

1938 when

descending

Stoke Bank on the East Coast Main Line at 126

mph.
What made

me tear up?

It was the doppler as she raced past in her blue

livery, blowing her steam whistle just before entering Moorcock tunnel,
rather like an extended drift towards zero beat from an old-time, L/C
oscillator, CW transmitter without regulated HT, sending a long dash.

Can

anyone think of a more appropriate simile?

~ Sir Nioer Gieatey

_—_

wr,
a=,

“=.

Mii

—

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
Langwathby.

really worth the stop at

As neolithic stone circles go, Long Meg and her daughters

should not be missed, they await your inspection.

| CW

Settle to Carlisle Railway Challenge

@
®
@
@
@
@
@
®@
®@

Ten weeks duration starting 21 September 25
73-miles through England's scenic countyside
Enhance your CW skills and general knowledge
Choose your own CW speed up to 25 wom
ORM and stress-free sound files both ways
Other QTC sending options: five online or HF
Basic 250 points, with bonus points for live QTGs
Printable certificate Issued to every participant
Infomation at bit.ly/cwste

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

and now possible after

every answer, are simply not happening.
73 es 77 de Stan

ZL3TK

Geomagnetic

Activity 1

From the Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather Services
SUBJ: ASWFC AURORA WATCH
ISSUED AT 0515 UT ON 06 Nov 2025
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN

SPACE WEATHER

FORECASTING

CENTRE

A coronal mass ejection is expected to impact the Earth within the next 48
hours, possibly resulting in significant geomagnetic

activity and visible

auroras during local nighttime hours. Aurora alerts will follow if significant
geomagnetic

activity actually occurs.

Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre

Bureau of Meteorology
E: ASWFC@bom.gov.au

Geomagnetic
SUBJ: ASWFC

Activity 2

PRELIMINARY

HF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

ISSUED AT 0806UT/06 NOVEMBER
BY THE AUSTRALIAN

WARNING

25/102

2025

SPACE WEATHER

FORECASTING

CENTRE.

Current ongoing coronal hole high speed wind stream effects combined with
anticipated CME

impacts on 07-Nov are expected to produce G3-G4 geomagnetic

storming, which may lead to HF depressions in the Australian region with stronger
depressions at higher latitudes.
DEGRADED

HF PROPAGATION

CONDITIONS

EXPECTED

FROM

06-08 NOVEMBER

2025
IF COMMS
A MORE

DIFFICULTIES

DETAILED

EXPERIENCED

HF WARNING

TRY A LOWER

WILL FOLLOW

FREQUENCY

IF DEPRESSIONS

BAND

EVENTUATE.

Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre
Bureau of Meteorology
ASWFC@bom.gov.au
www.bom.gov.au

| www.sws.bom.gov.au

ips-hf-warning mailing list
ips-hf-warning@ips.gov.au
https://listserver.ips.gqov.au/mailman/listinfo/ips-hf-warnin

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 - 3580kHz at 7pm
time every Wednesday;

Eastern

eae

you'll hear lots of the

—

CQQRS team on that net. Jordan VK3ACU has

ee clea

——

U - Playlist - 16 videos -

293

views

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.

Ny!
Wy)

Eastern

Club

& Mountain

information

District

Courses

Radio

Club

Inc

TheRadio Bulletin

YouTube

Groups

Links

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THE RADIO

Monthly Meeting November - Early Atomic
Testing - Phill VK3VC

7 November - Friday 8:00pm - Club Rooms Burwood & Zoom

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Coax Install

15/04/2024 - 8:04 PM

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10/11/2023

- 10:56

This month Phill VA3VC presents on the Atomic Bomb.
Phill explains his exploits were founded on a persona! quest to understand how
and why the atomic bomb was first built, He will cover from splitting the atom to
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the craziness that followed with above ground testing.

EMDRC

- IMPORTANT

DATES

Phill was able to visit the Trinity test site at the White Sands Missile range in New
Mexico and later the Nevada Test Site where so many above ground and later,
underground tests Were conducted, Phill originally gave this talk to the University of
the Third Age in Wodonga and will try to keep it down to about an hour for EMDRC.
Phill VK3VC.

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The

Fullerphone

From

Martin VK3FG

President,

Eastern

& Mountain

Districts Amateur

Radio

Club

Recently VA3GJZ Graeme Zimmer, friend of EMDRC handed over some interesting
gear he had collected. As much as we would like to display this at the club, we felt it
would be better appreciated on display at the Watsonia Signals Museum if it was of
interest. Ravid VA3RU handed the items to Jim VK3ZGG [Major - ret]. Some
interestina material is provided

below on the devices.

Fullerphone references:
Louis Meulstee wrote an article for the Antique Wireless Association, published in the
The Old Timers Bulletin Vol. 30, No. 3, November 1989.
(see attached)
Louis had another article "Earth Current Telegraphy" in Morsum Magnificat issue #9,
Autumn, 1988.
Operators Manual for the Mark IV Fullerphone
"The FullerPhone"

by: Frank Reid W9MKV

ODE TO AFULLERPHONE
(By Sigmn R.MELLOR, published in 'Jimmy', the WW2 journal of the Royal Corps of
Signals in the Middle East)
What is my greatest joy in life,
More precious even than my wife,
So comforting 'midst all this strife?
My Fullerphone.
How well I love your merry tricks;
Even when your buzzer sticks;
Delighting me with faint key clicks;
Oh Fullerphone.
How tunefully your buzzer throbs
As tenderly | turn those knobs.
Most fascinating of all jobs.
Oh Fullerphone.
Potentiometer, its true
I'm not sure what to do with you.
Yet even you add beauty to
My Fullerphone.

Oh how | pity those poor souls
Who daily work remote controls,
Attached to crazy wireless poles.
Oh Fullerphone.

David VK3RU handing the donated items to Jim
VK3ZKK for the Watsonia Signals Museum

They never hear the tuneful tones
Of perfect Morse within their ‘phones:
Just atmospherics, shrieks and groans.
Oh Fullerphone.
But | must cease to write more verse.
Communication getting worse.
No wonder that | rave and curse
At Fullerphone.
Asthmatic buzzers, - crazy keys.
How can one live a life of ease,
With damful instruments like these
Foul Fullerphones!

VUE TS

bess

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Click the images above to download further information on the Fullerphone.

If you’ve read something that you think might be of interest to our readers,
please let me know so John VK2RU
ideas.

and | can share more thoughts and

For guidance on writing for RagChew,
email material to Mark VK2KI:

see Articles below.

Or do you have a question or two that are worth sharing?
discussion-starter?
them to John

Please

cqgrsnet@gmail.com
How about a

Please let me know cqgrsnet@gmail.com

and /’// pass

VK2RU for compilation each week.

Prosian/Character/Sia

sews

Wri

Wwe

nal of the

ees

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 0600z until

about 1200z;

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

Details page for details.

Coordinated Universal Time
‘Rik

Pea

0600z to 1200z

(NOLE

- 2UM

VADEMIMeNLS

Australia

WII

SLIT

al a OINTErenL UME

IT required)

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

UTC + 13 Hours

1900 to 0100

New Zealand
(jams

Time

Frequency

0600z to 0900z

20m

14039-14051 kHz

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

0600z to 1200z

40m

FO2ZO0KHz - 7O40KHzZ

3535kHz - 3560kHz

160m

1855kHz (-SkHz for QRM)

7To00

7o20
|

40 m/s

)

ORO

]

ole

3500

]

CO ORS Net

3535

80 m =
1800

7O40
|

ORO

CO ORS Net
1655.

Thanks to Lance VKTTO for the COQRS

@
3560

=
1875

band-plan

=
2200z - 23007
(Tuesday UTC)

RRL)
ee

FM 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.

We'll

have fun.
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

Reports

respectively.

Hope to hear you there.

& 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:
cqarsnet@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

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/COQQRSWebsite then click the
menu

on the top right and then click RagChew News/etter.

Material
A reminder;
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if you send me any information by email, our report form or
- 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:

DL/MONNK,

DL3YZ,

VKLHF, VK2AOE, VK2GAS, VK2IOW, VK2RU, VK2WP, VK3ACU, VK3BSE,
VK3DRQ,

VK3ECH, VK3FG, VK3KEV, VK3KLE, VK3RU, VK3WOW,

VK4PN,

VK5AO, VK5FD, VK5KFG, VK6HRC, VK6KD, VK6KHZ, VK6LD, VK6NQL,
VKONW,

VKOWE,

editorial team,

VK7TA, VK7WW,
Nigel G4RWI

ZL3TK.

And a special thank you to our

(softness), Patrick VK2IOW

and alpaca shearer), John VK2RU
(cat-hearder) and Lance VK7TO

(reports coordinator

(audio-file generator), Richard VK6HRC
(technical editor).

Great work all!

€U. CW on Tuesday,

mb
Mark

Bosma

VK2KI / VK6QI
Beautiful South Bowning

cqqrsnet@gmail.com
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NSW

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