[CW] New Club for Morse Code Enthusiasts

[David Ring]

Thank you, Hans for this information.  Jim is a talented CW operator
and I'm sure he has with him the best of the best.  I hope that their
endeavor is blessed with success.

It would be nice to have a world-wide organization of CW operators
which might entail other activities than on-the-air ones.  I always
enjoy meeting CW operators in person.  I've met some of the best over
the years:  W1BB, W1PL, DL6TQ, KH6IJ, KV4AA, W1DDB, - I believe I've
met hams on all continent except Africa in their own country.  I did
meet CW operators in Africa - but they were coast station operators.

There was one fellow who worked for Suez Radio in Egypt - he carried
his bug in a violin case it seems.  Machine gun Mike they called him.
Sounded like a teletype machine - but it was Morse - got your fingers
working on the typewriter when he blasted messages.  Nice guy, drank
those tiny strong cups of coffee - maybe that was the secret to CW
that would wake any ship operator into full wakefulness. Personally I
always swore like the bo's'n did when my typewriter jammed up when I
hit three keys at the same time trying to copy his fast Morse.

73

DR

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:21 PM, K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> A new club has been formed among Amateur Radio operators who are Morse Code
> (CW) enthusiasts.  It is called The CW Operators' Club (CWops).  CWops
> encourages the use of CW in Amateur communications, and it promotes goodwill
> among Amateurs around the world by planned CW activities.
> CWops is international in scope, membership and management.  Its focus is
> the use of CW, whether for contesting, DXing or ragchewing.  Moreover, it
> promotes every form of sending -- if it's CW, CWops supports it!
> For further information, go to www.cwops.org.  There you will find
> everything that you might want to know about CWops, including our bylaws and
> articles of incorporation, our planned activities, an explanation of how to
> become a member, and a list of current members.
>
> Jim Talens, N3JT
> Secretary, CWops
>