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FOC is pleased to present the Bill Windle QSO Party. This event is open to all radio amateurs world-wide. Its aim is to encourage the use of, and excellence in, Morse code. The Bill Windle QSO Party is not a contest but an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, a past Chairman of FOC who was very keen that we should all be as active as possible on the bands.

I really love CW. When I was 11, I got SWL number and started to listen on HF. I was dreaming while listening that nice music and imagined how amazing could be to understand what they are sending.

Group of OK radioamateurs Pavel TA2ZAF (OK1MU), Vláďa OK1CW, Franta OK1DF, Zdenek OK1FIA, Slávek OK1TN, Zdeno OK2ZW a Honza OK2ZAW under the special call TC07DX are going to activate Turkey Island Suluada AS-115 in Mediterranean Sea between 15.5. and 19.5.2010.

We will use two stations CW/SSB and some few hours of operation is planned for RTTY mode. Equipmend will be: 2 x IC-746PRO + 2 x TS-480SAT + 2 x PA 800W, ANT - 5 band Spiderbeam, multiband vertical AV-640, loops for 30/40m, HB9CV on 50MHz.

QSL will go via Jarda OK2GZ as in previous TA IOTA expeditions, via OK BURO or DIRECT or via e-mail(on request).

In case of internet connection on the island we have planned online-logs regularly updated as was in our previous TA IOTA expeditions, please stay tuned.

More information at http://www.okdxf.eu/expedice/tc07en/www/

It is a book by Carlo IK0YGJ, that has just been translated into English. You can download it here: http://www.qsl.net/ik0ygj/enu/index.html

Carlo says:
This book is the result of several years of experience in amateur radiotelegraphy. It suggests, for the first time, a learning methodology based on an integrated and multidisciplinary approach designed to accompany the apprentice from the first steps in ham radio all the way to a world-class proficiency in telegraphy. The book introduces, ad-hoc tailored to amateur radio, techniques used successfully by competitive athletes, including extreme sports such as free diving, adapted to the difficult process of learning telegraphy.
More here: http://www.eham.net/forums/CW/10885

Very nice work Carlo! Thank you!

I need more practice in plain text copying. About a year ago I converted a few Czech textbooks to Morse and started to listen to it while driving a car or at evening when my wife is watching TV.

Nick has been active for long time as 5N/LZ1QK, unfortunately he didn't have valid amateur radio licence for Nigeria and QSOs will not count for DXCC credit. But now Nick, LZ1QK has a new call - 5N3WQK which is valid. He is on the air almost every day, especially on 17m. QSL via LZ1CL.

Yesterday, I got weighty package with new QSL cards designed and printed by Dan, OK1HRA. They are amazing! This QSL cards are the best I have ever had. Thank you Dan!

I woke up at 4am, prepared breakfast, my favourite green tea and started to hunt FOCers. It was great fun. Finally worked with 142 FOCers on all 6 bands.

Dneska ráno CQRLOG stáhl data z LoTW a objevilo se toto:

New QSOs confirmed by LoTW:
2009-02-25 K5D 80 CW
2009-02-25 K5D 40 CW
2009-02-23 K5D 30 CW
2009-02-14 K5D 20 CW
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Total: 4 new QSOs

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