[karc] Re: KARC Tuesday Night Net CW Practice and Contest (Results)
- From: "John Turgoose" <john.turgoose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: karc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:24:35 -0500
For those that cannot have antennas etc - this might be an option:
http://www.hamsphere.com/
does CW too and has contests etc. and is free...
73 John VE3NFK
2008/11/26 Phil Somers <pwsomers@xxxxxxxx>:
> The e-mail from Bob VE3GLO regarding how the Bobs and the others learned and
> used their CW skills, and all his other thoughts on CW were great. Very
> stimulating! Bob, I suggest you offer those comments for inclusion in the
> KARC Newsletter.
>
> I have been thinking of some additional ways we can promote CW locally and
> help those who want to improve their CW skills. My first thought was 2-metre
> CW but not many people have the equipment for normal A1 CW on 2-metres. Some
> have transceivers that do FM/SSB/CW on 2-metres. There are transverters
> around from 10m - 2m that you can use with HF equipment. I think F1 is an
> authorised mode on 2m. That is essentially what I have been doing on Tuesday
> nights. Maybe it is not strictly according to the bandplan, but I think the
> bandplans are agreements among hams as opposed to government regulations. I
> don't see in the bandplan any space for F1 simplex and certainly not for an
> F1 repeater. It probably isn't practical to have an F1 repeater with the
> demand for repeater frequencies. But if it is, I think a Kingston FM
> repeater for exclusive FM CW would be very interesting and very useful, and
> would be a strong promotion for amateur radio in Kingston. To use it, normal
> FM rigs would need to be slightly modified. The easiest would be to use a CW
> code practice oscillator in front of the microphone. Better would be to have
> an optional microphone input. A computer could be used as the code practice
> oscillator and/or keyer.
>
> My second thought was: Is there anything for CW on the Internet similar to
> Echolink for voice? Echolink could be used with a tone generator for CW. It
> would work ok. But there actually are at least a couple of CW Internet
> possibilities. I tried what appears to be the best one by far. And it really
> works wonderfully.
>
> It is called CW Communicator or CWCom. You download the software and install
> it on your computer. You send CW in several ways. You can use the "down
> arrow" or another key as the CW key. You can connect a straight key or an
> iambic keyer to one of the serial ports, or you can send with the keyboard
> and from a file, etc. The program decodes and prints both your outgoing CW
> and the incoming CW, but you don't have to look at it if you want to copy by
> yourself. You can connect to a server where there are other stations to
> connect with. You can connect directly between any two computers on your
> local LAN or over the Internet. Or you can send CW text messages via a
> bulletin board server or directly. The whole system is very well done and
> for me, it worked the first time. No problem with opening ports, etc in the
> router. I have hooked up my Bencher paddle and it works great in the serial
> port. There is no ham callsign authorisation process like Echolink. There
> are some people calling themselves SWL-xxx, probably people learning the
> code. There are no ports (that I know of) to the ham radio RF bands outside
> the Internet.
>
> The main webpage is: http://www.mrx.com.au/ . Instructions are at:
> http://www.mrx.com.au/images/cwcom_help.htm The default server that the
> software uses is not currently active. The active server is
> morsecode.dyndns.org, as shown on the two pages above. To see who is on, and
> maybe looking for a QSO, go to http://morsecode.dyndns.org/index.html don't
> think there are many users at the moment. However, I logged into channel
> 1000 and within 10 minutes I got a call from W4WXA in Goergia and we had a
> very nice QSO, both doing manual CW.
>
> So you could arrange to meet someone on one of the channels at a certain
> time, and bingo, QRM-free CW. Like Echolink, it is great for people who
> can't have antennas or an HF station. So I'd like to do some CW with someone
> locally on this mode. It is easy to get installed and operating. I think it
> would be very useful for code practice. Lots of possibilities.
>
> ... Phil VE3HST
>
>
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