MORSE CLASSES FOR 2025/26 WINTER TERM AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE NARC CW NETBoth the Morse Classes and the NARC Net have been under discussion with the tutors. We would appreciate your participation in the new season, which will begin the first week in October, assuming we get sufficient feedback. If you are thinking of learning Morse, please get in touch before then with your present ability , what you would like to achieve and your HF situation, i.e. are you active on HF, do you already have QSOs on there, do you listen on the CW end regularly and so on.
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The main thing to keep in mind is the fact that we will NOT broadcast to fresh air. If you want to become a good CW operator, then join a class. It is for your benefit that we run these classes in the first place and we get as much satisfaction in seeing students improve as you will in becoming a good CW operator.
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All are welcome in these classes, experienced operators who wish to increase speed even further, together with raw beginners who know absolutely nothing. We all have to start at the beginning. DO NOT think it a good idea to go it alone. You will develop bad habits which are not easy to break.
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If you require any more information, please email any one of us, we will be only too pleased to help.
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The tutors are: Malcolm G3PDH, Phil G4LPP, Jim G3YLA and me, Roger G3LDI. If anybody else would like to join us as a tutor, and I know there are good Operators out there, you would be most welcome.
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THE NARC NET
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The NET will still be on a Monday evening starting at 8 p.m. local time. However we failed to encourage anybody to join this year, probably because of shyness, not sure of Net operation or just that nobody reads this stuff! The Net is to practice the Net protocol, netting accurately obviously and as a chat with short overs. Just general comments and quips are all that is needed and it is intended to encourage head copy, with just bullet points jotted down on paper.
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We make it welcome to anybody, not just students. So, if you feel like some conversational Morse, please join in and if you are not comfortable with the speed then please ask us to QRS. The same applies to experienced operators. If you feel like a QRQ conversation then please ask again.
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There will still be a Straight Key night ( SK ) on the last Monday of the month. Obviously this will limit everybody’s speed and it is very rare to hear anybody above about 18wpm. Great SK practice however and a skill that should not be neglected!
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The Net does not occupy the whole evening, in fact about an hour and hopefully it will encourage oldies and newbies alike.
I do hope you are all maintaining your practice on a regular basis and look forward to seeing your progress in the autumn.
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73 de Roger, G3LDI ==================== May the Morse be with you!
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