.Thanks for letting me join the CQQRS group. I’ve been licensed since 1969 and would love to help out any newbies on CW at a slow speed. I am up each morning about 4am so would have the time to join the net each Tuesday. Please add me to the CQQRS WhatsApp group as well.
By the way, I do want to mention that there is more regular CW activity over here in the USA compared to Australia. Yes, some of these regulars are seasoned operators but others are going at slow speeds as well.
I would encourage members in your group to try out the KiwiSDRs and WebSDRs just to listen even in Europe as well. I do it a lot and am familiar with a number of the regulars on CW.
I would also encourage your members to try out RemoteHams as well. If they can get owner permission, there are a number of them on the air here.
Eric, KF4LZA is a really nice guy and has several RemoteHams stations set up on the east coast of Florida which I use. I believe that he has at least one of these remotes set up to allow using a real Morse key/keyer in addition to keyboard sending. If one of your members got on, I could chat on CW with them, say on 40 meters during the day using my own IC-7300 while they are on the remote on the other coast (distance about 120 miles); my wife and I are both retired and have plenty of free time.
There are also some powerful RemoteHams stations on the air. I use the W8RJ remote in Michigan; Roger has appreciated that I have pointed out some bugs in the RemoteHams software and he was able to get them corrected. Roger has his station on the air in RemoteHams for 160 to 10 meters – it puts out a great signal. It is a K4 with KPA1500 amp putting out 900 watts all of the time (except 30 meters).
Here’s some useful SDR and RemoteHams links that the team might like to explore: http://rx.linkfanel.net/
http://websdr.org/
https:/Awww.qrz.com/db/KE4LZA
https:/Awww.qrz.com/db/W8RJ
By the way, Mark, I would keep internet CW in mind as well. No, it is not ‘real radio’ but on the other hand I see nothing wrong with separating CW and HF radio into separate categories. I do FT8 sometimes for the HF part and see nothing wrong with that. Anything that is fun in ham radio and can be a learning experience as well is ok in my book. Rigid thinking as to what ham radio should be will contribute to its demise.
l am glad to see that Australia has taken the lead in trying to regulate social media with the kids. I think that social media has gotten out of hand. I am embarrassed as an American that we have our tech companies just do whatever they want to for the sake of profits even if it hurts our kids and even all of us. I think that it has also contributed to a lot of the political/populist problems going on here and around the world. I dislike it when companies profit off of people without regard to the damage they are causing; our medical system is out of control as well.
Anyway, I will stop the rant lol. Jeff Pohl (WB2GDZ)
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