Tag: cw
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Data Mode Haters are Gonna Hate!
These days the channel is under constant bombardment by CW organisations and their fanboys. They criticize weak signal data modes, as a way of protesting the decline of morse code activity on the bands. Back in the day, I occasionally worked CW, but just never found the joy in it, as I have with low…
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Contester Mentality & WIDE OPEN filters
Hello Operators I was watching a video from Callum the DX Commander on his YouTube channel earlier today. Callum was doing a poor job of explaining why he runs his rigs with wide open filters. He explained how the best filter for QRM (in his opinion) is his brain. Actually that’s something I can agree…
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Radio Prepper Off Grid Emergency SIM on 80M CW
Hello Operators. Many of you know my friend Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper. He is an absolute Morse code fanatic. Minimal shirt pocket size radios, single-mode, single band, No Frills. Some time ago I gave him a challenge to get an operator on air to pass a message from Gil. The message should include his…
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HFAPRS RX & Respond to Message using APRS Messenger
This is a short demonstration of APRS Messenger message reception, reply, and acknowledgement over HF APRS. HFAPRS and APRS Messenger are the little-known gems of keyboard to keyboard group communications on HF. Many operators talk about other chat modes, but few modes offer these near real-time keyboard chat and messaging capabilities as APRS Messenger. APRS…
