Category: CW
March 23, 2021
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November 9, 2020
8 contacts into the ARRL Sweepstakes CW contest I hit my 10,000th contact ever. It was with N4ZZ, I'll send him a card. I'm still in the process of getting my old house ready as a rental so my shack is mostly still in boxes. I pulled out the bare minimum of stuff to get my Flexradio hooked up. I…
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October 1, 2020
I brought my POTA setup to my new QTH and setup in the sweet fruit tree garden I now own. It was a rare brisk morning in Florida (68F) so the weather was perfect. Very little RF noise on 40m, much quieter than the S7 or higher noise I have at my old place, lots of AF noise with people mowing their…
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June 6, 2020
Today I was honored to join the CW Ops as member #2626. To join you have to be nominated by a member and then sponsored by 3 other members that have at least 2 contacts with you at 25 Words Per Minute(WPM). I wouldn't be able to do that if it weren't for the CW Academy. I highly recommend the CWA…
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May 29, 2020
Last night I completed the CW Academy Advanced class, which is the 4th CW Academy class I've taken. I highly recommend the CW Academy for learning morse code. The reason it worked for me is the accountability. There's 4-5 other guys in the class, and it's a video chat so they can see you, and it…
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April 29, 2020
I had a great time with the Florida QSO Party over the weekend. Normally a bunch of us do the contest from the club station, and we won Top Florida Club the last two years. With the antenna damage and the virus we weren't able to do that this year so I used my home station. I ended up with 403…
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March 1, 2020
I've completed my 3rd CW Academy course and signed up for their final "Advanced" class that will start in a month. These classes use the online video conference program Zoom. We had 5 students, 1 instructor and 2 associate instructors. Everybody made it through this one which is good, it's a hard…
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February 17, 2020
This was my first activation where I got the required 10 QSO's using CW. I was sitting on a bench so I wasn't the most comfortable working the key but I got it done. I seem to have an issue sending CQ POTN instead of CQ POTA. I'll figure that out eventually. This part of the trail I went seemed to…
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February 16, 2020
I did this one remotely since I'm attending a wedding in Jacksonville this weekend. I brought along my old Windows laptop so I could run N1MM and Smart SDR for the Flex Radio. It worked really well remotely from the AirBnB. The only issue I had was I setup the "FL FL" macro for repeating my…
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February 15, 2020
This park is a popular boat launch site. It was drizzling a little when I arrive so I turned on the lightning detector. It didn't give any warnings and the rain cleared up. I was trying for an all CW activation for my second time. I got 9 over more than an hour, mostly out west, then I woke W4MMY…
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