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 […]
Commentaries
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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: […]
The International Amateur Radio Union is not an organization that radio amateurs can join individually. It consists instead of its member “national societies”, of which it generally allows only one organization per country. Back in the early days when it was created perhaps this was not a problem, however, the […]
For the Old Timer who has observed the encroachment upon formerly exclusive CW bands and not been subjected to the “cooked slowly like a frog syndrome”, the following facts should be obvious: These three facts do not bode well for the future, and in addition due to point 3. above, […]
NO5NN.org not only provides resources for all those interested in “non-5NN TU” activities, that is, enjoyable Quality Over Quantity activity and especially in CW, but also we hope to assist the newcomer and those interested in good operating practices. In doing so, there is certainly far more that is allowed […]