A frequent complaint, sadly from many Old Timers who should know better, is that the bands are full when there is a major (or any) CW Con Test taking place. This is only true for the CW EXCLUSIVE sections of the bands on the non-WARC bands, which is what the […]
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We are now experiencing the peak time of the roughly 11 year sunspot cycle. For many, most if not all of us, this may in fact be the last solar peak of our life times. Therefore all the more pity that the majority of radio amateurs are, unlike in past […]
A rough survey, which could certainly be conducted with greater quality, shows that an estimated 80% or more amateur radio CW operators use frequencies that end in a round .0kHz. There are a few reasons for this, the most notable are that with the era of digital displays it looks […]
Let’s take a reverse on our usual promotion of Quality Over Quantity and help out the Quantity Over Quality 5NN-TU crowd. They need help as they do lack imagination! This article will reveal several more ways to save critical time for the Quantity group while setting the Quality group free. […]
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With 2025 upon us, it’s time for a review of Quality Telegraphy Time advocacy and results of the past year and what’s planned for this coming year. Thank you to all those who have subscribed to our various communications. We recommend you to at least join the “Important Announcements” list […]
Without Ying and Yang we might not be. Certainly if no one ever calls CQ, we’d have no QSO because everyone would be listening. And if everyone only called CQ, we’d also have no QSO because everyone would be calling. There are, like with all things, extremes, and then there […]
The Reverse Beacon Network is known to many CW operators and serves some useful purposes for those that want to make use of it, but like all technology and the Internet, it is just an option. RBN can be useful for checking your signal and comparing different antennae by running […]
Dear Readers, We’ll be posting more content to the NO5NN Blog part of the NO5NN.org website and hope that the posts will be interesting and generate some comments and discussions. NO5NN is a site for all those who love CW but do not like only a “5NN TU” and consider […]
There are those who strictly operate their radios without the use of any computers or Internet, there are those who do not operate the radio leaving the computer and modem to do all the work, and there are many shades in between. Let us take a look at the question: […]