CWOps Academy CW Advanced Class Newsletter September-October 2020 Session: Issue 5
This Month You guys are Tell all your friends who are interested in learning or improving their Morse code that October Schedule doing great there is no cost or obligation to participate in Session 16 Thursday 10/29 without using CWops CW Academy Classes and membership is me!! not required. Enrollment is open to anyone with CWOPS WEB SITE: the desire to learn or improve their proficiency in https://cwops.org/cw-academy/ Morse Code.
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/li stinfo/cw (CW email group) The 1st Day of November from 0000utc to 2400utc THE SLOW SPEED SAUNTER ! Happy Halloween 24 hours of slow speed CW. The Zombie Shuffle: Details at WWW.SKCCGROUP.COM WHEN: FRIDAY Nite, OCTOBER 30, 2020
WHERE: Primarily intended for North & South American Zombies
TIME: From 1600 local time to local midnight. Participate an hour or two, or whatever you can spare, or all 8-hours if you have the stomach for it.
BANDS: 20, 40, and 80 meters -- Somewhere around the QRP watering holes: 14.060, 7.030, 7.040, 7.106, 3.560, or anything else that works. Use of sked pages, QRP spotting or QRP-L announcements allowed.
MODE: CW only, QRP (5W or less)
EXCHANGE: RST, SPC, Zombie Number , Name RST – Signal report (like 599, though honest reports are appreciated) SPC – State/Province/Country (ex. CA, TX, BC, Transylvania, etc.) ZOMBIE NUMBER - Your assigned Zombie number CWops Tests (CWT) or your telephone 3-digit Area Code CWops’ three weekly CWT sprints are exciting, stimulating (Bonus stations will send "2020" as their Zombie and a great way to improve CW copying ability, operating number) skills, and propagation knowledge. The CWTs create bonds of friendship among CW-loving operators around the world. http://www.zianet.com/qrp/ZOMBIE/pg.htm Every Wednesday at 1300 – 1400z (favoring Asia/Pacific); 1900 – 2000z (favoring Europe/Africa); and 0300 – 0400z –Thursday (Wednesday evening in US/Canada). https://cwops.org/cwops-tests/ More From Bruce K8UDF: Have you taken the opportunity to explore CWops via CW Operators’ Club (CWops), has a https://cwops.org ? Everything in the club website is new one-hour slow speed CW event, available to everyone, with the exception of a small “the SST.” Member’s Only section. CWops is all about CW with a 00:00-01:00 UTC Mondays which is: special emphasis on helping any ham radio operator learn 20:00-21:00 (8-9pm) CW or improve their CW proficiency. A couple sections (7-8pm after Nov 1) EDT Sundays under the “About” drop down menu describes it well. • “There are other clubs for CW operators, each with Upcoming dates its attractions. CWops is very different and stands ------out as a unique international organization because it 0000Z-0100Z, Nov 2, 2020 advances the “state of the art” of operating across the full spectrum of CW activities – early Suggested operating frequencies: introduction, rag chewing, contesting, DXing, and ------awards chasing.” 80 meters 3.528 - 3.545 • “Our educational programs and learning support 40 meters 7.028 - 7.045 systems are of the highest quality – and they work. 20 meters 14.028 - 14.045 The CWA Academy annually teaches hundreds of former and new CW enthusiasts CW in a classroom environment with a goal of proficiency at 25 wpm.” Information here: Many of us have benefitted from CW Academy http://www.k1usn.com/sst.ht classes. Use of Paddle and keyer is encouraged So, take a few minutes to thoroughly explore the CWops website and see what you can find. Also, think about working toward a CWops membership. It could be your Practice phrases: opportunity to be part of a great organization and give something back to the mode of communication we love, IT IS A BIT EXPENSIVE BUT IS CW. VERY USABLE ANTENNA WITH EXTREME VERSATILITY (Bruce is a student in my Advanced CW class and he is also the editor of QTX Report in CWOps ‘Solid Copy’ Newsletter) precocious pachyderms grudgingly caused pandemonium at the unguarded palisades Helpful links ------“The sixteen kneeling greenskeepers ceased - https://morsecode.ninja/ weeding to say shes been seen sweeping - https://morse.camp/ greenflies from the sheets beside the beehive - https://www.contestcalendar.com/weeklycont.php where the busily buzzing bees followed the - Multiple Sched page: http://n8fq.org/sked/index.php?board=fist queen bee in her breeding flight under the - 3830scores.com watchful eyes of seventeen beekeepers standing - www.contestcalendar.com/contestdetails.php?ref=681 knee deep in weeds.” - AC6V Nets and much more....
N1MM+ Call History files: http://www.g4bki.com/club_call_history.htm 109 CW Clubs and counting: from Paul - [email protected] http://www.g4bki.com/club_call_history.htm
Some Club Member Stats (current appx. number of members): SKCC 23150 Straight Key Century Club QRPARCI 16785 QRP Amateur Radio Club Int'L NAQCC 10356 North American QRP CW Club FISTS 6873 FPQRP 4359 Flying Pigs A1C 3783 A1 CLUB - Japan CTC 3232 Croatian Telegraphy Club AGCW 2697 Activity Group CW Club - Germany 4SQRP 2246 4 State QRP CWops 2132 CW Operators Club TRC 1999 Thracian Rose Cub - Bulgaria HSC 1530 High Speed Club - Europe ARMI 1506 Associazione Radioamatori Marinai Italiani Italy GRT 1434 Greek Telegraphy Club ??? TBDXC 1351 True Blue DX Club RCWC 1300 Russian CW Club SOC 1289 Second class Operators' Club (Because so few are really First Class Competence is tolerated, but not encouraged)
A quick check shows the following: SKCC and NAQCC: 6072 common members (!) SKCC and FISTS: 3872 common members SKCC and QRPARCI: 3377 common members (From: Fabian, DJ1YFK)
- Zombie Shuffle Oct 30 1600-2359 - ARRL Sweepstakes 2100 7Nov - 0259 Nov 9
NO BOSS - 20% of American workers between the ages of 18-49 are self-employed. 46% of American workers between the ages of 65-69 are self-employed (source: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019).
Sending Practice Phrases: - The dingoes are around the quick brown 1250 foxes of KM5IT jumping over KK5NA and his dogs. - Some 5081T blue zebras ? jump over 580 rhinos.... - Some yellow lizards called the 245 jazzy giraffes excitedly leaping over WA5OLT in the next 5061 acres. - The 705 xanadu zebras jump over the crocodiles of KM5IT. Often WA5RML/5 wields some 5081T zealous quixotes? Who frequent the bands? 528T xrays exit past the favorite people with NV5F/m. - Dingoes joust with 5081T crocodiles in the / swamps in FL in Orlando and see 2117 rattlesnakes, as well. - Zany NE5DL cockatoos are often seen in brazil, / and Venezuela has many red eagles juxtaposed with 542 cougars. - Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs? - Amazingly 752 discotheques provide 5081T juke boxes? to AD5CW/p - Waiting zephyrs, quickly fixed 510 jumbo jugs with KK5NA/QRP? - Jack belongs to WA5OLT and jackdaws love my 573 sphinx of 266 quartz legs from K7GVE. - A quick movement by W0LOA of the 5081T enemy troops will jeopardize 5 gunshots/. - A very handsome quiet boy Zachary, with AA5TB/qrp whose favorite animal was 965 foxes and kicked his jet black 185T ball into the pretty - My faxed joke won a pager in the cable tv quiz show WA2DJ/4 - Bens Best Bent wire /5 Pop Songs(etc) With Morse Code The following songs(etc.) contain short messages or words in CW. A good exercise in copying through QRM, some are difficult to make out through the music: ------Iron Butterfly Theme - "I LOVE YOU" 4:19 into song ------Depeche Mode - Agent Orange - "LAXI" 4:16 into song ------Roger Waters - Radio KAOS - 1:06 into song. ------Yes - Magnification - "MAGNIFICATION" 1:58 into song ------CQ Serenade - Idiotic, but hey..... ------"Planet Claire" by the B-52's begins with... NAWS DE CFH II ZKR F1339... ------"Forever Yesterday" - by the Soup Dragons on their album HOTWIRED begins with CW. ------https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teaxWYRH9A4 Communication by Slim Gaillard. ------Joe Walsh (The Eagles) has two songs with accurate morse code in them.. ..on the song "Great Behemoth" from his Barnstorm album you can hear cw at the end of the song, after the fade and return. 'Register and vote' is sent very slowly, but you can clearly hear it in the background, just before the end of the track. It starts at approx. 3min 40 sec, and says 'register and vote'
The other one is on his Songs for a Dying Planet album. On the track "Certain Situations" start listening at approx. 3min 30sec. This time he sends 'register and vote for me' followed by the ar prosign. ------the German group Kraftwerk have CW on their Radio Activity album, in the radioactivity track. ------SOS Lara I'm in Love Mathias Carras https://youtu.be/bC9AXk9Iuew ------British progressive rock group IQ released a CD in 2009 called Frequency. On the title track, CW can be heard calling 'CQ' at the very start of the track. ------"Calling all stations" from Kwook Skywave album https://dataobscura.bandcamp.com/album/skywave ------Beethoven's 5th symphony blasts out in Morse Code. At the end you will hear the real 5th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0HrbCbfwlg ------The second stop on the Disneyland Railroad is home to the telegraph cable office, where a paraphrased portion of Walt Disney’s opening-day speech from July 17, 1955, can be heard in Morse code. The telegraph message is just over a minute long and decoded it says: “To all who come to Disneyland, welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.” Put in this entire url: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/07/ sounding-off-at-the-new-orleans-square-train-station- telegraph-cable-office-at-disneyland-park/ ------Rock Group RUSH used Morse YYZ is the IATA airport identification code of Toronto Pearson International Airport. The track is named for Toronto, and Toronto is also embedded into the track. Listen to the introduction in the above snippet: it's Morse code (- . - - / - . - - / - - . .) for Y-Y-Z. ------The famous Capitol Records building in Hollywood flashes out H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D in dots and dashes from the top of its tower as an aircraft warning light? It's done so since the building was erected in 1956, only changing the message on very special occasions. One time was in 1992 when the light was altered to read "Capitol 50", to mark the label's 50th anniversary. Then, in 2013, ahead of the release of Katy Perry's Prism album, it blinked out: "Katy Perry. Prism. October 22nd, 2013." ------Five Americans — "Western Union" (fake morse) ------ABBA — "S.O.S" ------The Clash — "London Calling" Sampled Morse code at the end: V for victory ------The British Mystery shows "Inspector Morse "include clues and red herrings in Morse code, the main theme of the title music was based on the rhythmic sequence of MORSE expressed in Morse code ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Morse_(TV_series)#Music ) Also the newer series "Endeavor" ------In 1990 Mike Oldfield released the album Amarok on the virgin record label.
Due to pressures as Mike was contractually obliged to Virgin Records to deliver three more albums in short order. Amarok was noticeably strange even by Mike Oldfield's standards and hidden in it at 48mins was a quite rude morse code message for Virgin's owner Richard Branson, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(Mike_Oldfield_album)