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The club has a design for Club Tee-shirts, Polo-shirts, Sweat-Shirts, Fleeces and Jackets and all of these can be obtained from the address below.

When making an order please quote ‘Cockenzie & Port Seton Amateur Radio Club’ as this will ensure that the Club Logo will be placed on the required ordered garments.If you wish to add your call-sign to the logo then please ask at the time of the order.

Cost will depend on garment and should cover the garment and logo, call-sign addition will be extra.

Order from:

PATRICIA BEWSEY DESIGNS,
UNIT 11,FENTON BARNS RETAIL VILLAGE,
FENTON BARNS,
NORTH BERWICK,
EAST LOTHIAN
EH39 5BW

Tel/Fax: 01620 850788
Mobile: 07970 920431

Email: patricia@garmentprinter.co.uk

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3 weeks ago

MORSE Training via ZOOM – Starting Monday 16thNovember @ 1845 for 19:00

I have been asked by one or two people about trying to learn Morse Code (CW) so to that end I have been experimenting using ZOOM and it appears it can be done this way. We did this a few years back but as Face to Face in the Community Centre

**Plan is I have setup a ZOOM Meeting for Monday 16thNovember starting at 18:45 for starting the CW at 19:00. Initial plan is to run this for an hour just to see how we go.**

The link to join this ZOOM Session is as below:

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[https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5118594062/…](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5118594062/…)

**If you are interested can you drop me an email to say that you will join just so I get a feel for who is going to be there….THANKS**

The way it will be done is using a Program called **NUMORSE Professional**.

It uses the KOCH method of teaching, basically learn some characters until you can receive them at 90%, then add some more so the new characters and old will be sent. We continue in this manner till we caver all the characters and punctuation characters.

Characters are sent at 20WPM (Basically learn the sound of the character) but with spacing overall the speed is 6WPM

See you Monday

Bob GM4UYZ

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Seems really appropriate that morse goes through the cloud!

Cool sounds good I'm in

I'm interested

Interested

Zoom ? Is that a bit like an FT8 sked ?

Great idea Bob. I'm interested 👍

Love to join in Bob but night shift 😢 mind you I'd need to learn how to use this zoomer stuff first 😜🤣

How did it go ??

Thanks to all who came on last night. I felt it went ok as I had not done it since 2014 so it was trying to get in the "groove" as they say. Including myself there was 17 participants so a good turnout.

Try a 12 hour night shift ...

Sounds like it was good fun, should have been paying attention to my Facebook over the last couple of weeks.

Will be running it each Monday night for the future until everyone has had enough. Use the same ZOOM Link as was issued for the first session. See above in the original message

Enjoyed that again this week. Cheers Bob. A great website for working along with the CW lessons is LCWO.net if anyone's interested in punishing their brains any further. You can set it up for the same letters as on the Monday nights..... It's free but does need a login so it can save your scores etc.

Hi Bob, I'm not going to be on tonight, catch you next week

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5 days ago

Joining the 20th Century (yes, I know) and registering for LoTW, what a faff that is !!!

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Stick with it once your in it's easy

I would and did🤷‍♂️

Once you get it, link it to QRZ and they will sync. I found this really useful, as a lot of people will log in one but not the other, I did it and my confirm rate went up from like 20% to 60%

Right, I've emailed them my licence, driving licence, passport, cashline card and PIN along with a picture of me in my Speedos. That should be enough.

lotw is a complete pain the neck, so complicated to register then constant updates to certificates, I gave up after a while

Well, as mentioned earlier, I sent all my stuff off to these muppets and have heard nothing in almost 24 hours. I think I'm gonna bin it. Useless !!!!!!

People these days want instant replies - in my day you had to send all paperwork by snail mail. (Ok 2 years ago) - Yes pain to register but there after piece of piss

It's a complete faff to sign up and a pain in the hoop if you want to operate /p /m etc as they want you to use a new "certificate" for each location! No thank you! I just log my modest trickle of contacts under one callsign and one certificate no matter where they were from. I somehow managed to link it to QRZ dot com and the two seem to talk to each other pretty well.

Still not heard anything back from them.

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3 days ago

CLUB NIGHT 4th DECEMBER 2020 – LETS TRY A VIRTUAL MEETING

It is the last Club Night of 2020 and it has been some year and as we are still unable to meet up Face to Face due to the Coronavirus, I thought lets try a virtual club meeting using ZOOM. I will open a ZOOM session for 19:00 on Friday 4th December and the link for access is as below. We can give it a try say for 1 hour to see how it goes and if successful we could hold further Virtual Club Meetings in the future until we can once again meet Face to Face. I think this is better than nothing.

Join Zoom Meeting

[https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5118594062/…](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5118594062/…)

Meeting ID: 511 859 4062

Passcode: 763211

Look forward to “Seeing” you on Friday

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Great idea Bob I hope to join if finished work in time. Look forward to a catch up! 👍🏼

Great idea Bob, hope to see you there

Question is, will Bob go to the bar ?

That'll be when the connection drops all of a sudden!

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3 days ago

Help, my new (old) radio is picking up some unintelligible interference.

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Minions calling a 😉🤣

Sounds like an SSTV picture of an Antarctic Scene.

A little choir of warblers..... Not their finest song.

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3 days ago

This being the first time doing cqww SSB competition, does this mean I’m provisional first place in Scotland for QRP unassisted all bands? I’m not sure how the rankings work.... MM7MTB ... See MoreSee Less

This being the first time doing cqww SSB competition, does this mean I’m provisional first place in Scotland for QRP unassisted all bands? I’m not sure how the rankings work.... MM7MTB

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Looks like it, well done. (y)

Looks like it. Also if you look in the Continent results your were 6/10 of all the UK stations who entered so a good result first time out. Have a look at www.contestcalendar.com/weeklycont.php if you haven’t seen it for other events.

Yep well done, it's always worth putting an entry in