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Re: Meeting

 

Thanks for sharing the link Hiro-san!
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73, Martin
Re: Improving the CW activities in Asia

 

Hi Hiro-san
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Yesterday a man on the street asked us where we where from, and if we liked Japan, my answer was "daisuki desu" ?
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73, Martin
Re: Improving the CW activities in Asia

 

Martin-san,

SRI to hear that but chances will be a lot.

Here in TOKYO it’s getting warmer and I’m sure you enjoy your trip in JA.

Enjoy seeing Japanese beautiful sceneries.

73,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF
Re: Improving the CW activities in Asia

 

Hi Hiro-san. Unfortunately I couldn't book a guesthouse for Saturday/Sunday, so we spent an extra day at Katsurahama Beach, which meant I arrived too late in Usa to head up the summit. I'm sure that won't be the last time this will happen to mess up my plans, hi.
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73, Martin
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Thank you for your feedback Bill-san!

Conversational QSOs rarely include punctuation marks, apart from the question mark.

That's the reason for which I replaced most of the punctuation marks in N0HFF's ASRT book by adequate numbers of spaces.
It should sound just like talking to someone on the phone (for example, there is a short time of silence for a comma, a longer one for a period).


CU 73
Tom
New Members - 2025/04/05

 

A1CLUB members,

Three new members joined last week.

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Number: 4839
Call Sign: IT9KHP
QTH: Sicily Island, Italy

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Number: 4840
Call Sign: JR4OWV
Name: YOSHI
QTH: MATSUE City, SHIMANE Prefecture

[Comment]
I made my comeback in October 2024 after 35 years. In the SHOWA era, I learned Japanese Morse code with the sole desire to get the first class amateur license, but now that I'm a senior without having put it into practice once, I'm struggling to try again. I hope to broaden the scope of my enjoyment through interactions with fellow CW enthusiasts.

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Number: 4841
Call Sign: JH4WUI
Name: SHU
QTH: OKAYAMA City, OKAYAMA Prefecture

[Comment]
I got into CW about 30 years ago. I am currently training in WABUN (Japanese Morse code). I am promoting some hands-on and handicraft opportunities at my QTH. BR

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73/88,
// HIRO, JJ1FXF
// A1CLUB Admin Team
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Hi Tom,

Thank you for providing this file. I have been using this text for practice listening for a few months now using the Ditto CW app on Android. You can use the app settings to change the speed to anything that you want.

The Advanced class by K5GQ for CWOps has also been recommended to use this file for practice.

It works well with your recommended daily CW sending/receiving practice worksheet, which I also use.

In the past I had used this video by MorseCode Ninja: for the Ray Bradbury short story "A Sound of Thunder", but that contains all of the punctuation and a lot of very difficult, uncommon words. I really appreciate the work you've put into this text file.

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73
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*JP3REM* - Bill
A1C #4246, CWops #3390
Re: Meeting

 

Martin-san,

I bet you had a good time with TAKU-san, JR5GWR. :)



BTW, I'm in the photo below titled "JO1ZZZ忘年会" with my thumb up. hi

// HIRO, JJ1FXF
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Thank you for the feedback Hide-san!

Here, at different speeds, the whole txt-file has been converted to one audio-file for each speed.

At 30 wpm that gives about 46 hours.
At 40 wpm still 34 hours...

You are right --- enough for a CW operator's life :)

Have fun!
73
Tom
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Thank you for giving us nice materials, Tom.?
I’ve done extracting and got Chapter00 to 50 mp3 files. It must be enough quantities for my CW whole life. HI! so I only have to do is having my mind to achieve my goal for CW skill.?
Any way I will try and enjoy it. Thanks Tom.?
7L2VPL/Hide


On Reiwa 7 Apr 6, Sun at 12:18 Tom DF7TV via <df7tv=[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,

Major parts of the book "The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy" by William G Pierpont, N0HFF (2002), have been considerably edited (first by Chuck, W5UXH, then by myself) in a way that, when converted to Morse Code audio by ebook2CW or a similar tool, the audio file provides a pleasant flow of Morse Code. Just? like in a real–world conversational QSO.

The according UTF-8 encoded txt–file is available as archive N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.zip:

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Conversion tool:

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


I would recommend to convert the text file to Morse code audio without additional word spaces, Farnsworth etc.
To progress in CW, just convert it at a speed at which you are challenged, but not frustrated, when listening.
For playback of the audio file, an audio player saving the playback state (currently played track and position) when closing and resuming on next start–up is advantageous.

Example Audacious:




CU 73
Tom






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Hide/7L2VPL
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 
Edited

Arigato Atsu-san!

The last time, when I converted N0HFF's book using ebook2CW from 25 to 80 wpm on a Windows 10 computer, I have used the following configuration and batch file.


EBOOK2CW.CONF:
============

# ebook2cw.conf configuration file
# modified by DF7TV
# 2025-03-28
#
#
# Remarks on the rise time (R) and on the fall time (F):
# ebook2cw uses a triangular (linear) envelope.
#
#
# Remark on the volume (v, 1...100):
# The default level (v100 ?) is very high -> lower level set by "|v50" at the begin of the text-file to be converted.
# Like shown:
### |v50
### The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy =
### A Manual For...
#
#
#
[settings]
# -b bitrate - MP3 bitrate, kbps [16]
b=16
# -c chapter separator - Split chapters at this string [CHAPTER].
# In the file, there must be a space after this string to make it work.
# If the separator string is empty or starts with a dash, chapters will not
# be split and the output files will not be numbered.
#
# I want to get only one output file for the entire text
c=
# -f freq - audio frequency in Hz [600]
f=698
# -u - Enables UTF-8 support (so far supported: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic).
# Default setting (no -u switch) is ISO 8859-1.
# My input file is UTF-8 encoded
u=1
# -p - Disables the paragraph separator (<BT>)
# Suppress paragraph separator
p=1


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BATCH FILE asrt-25-to-80-wpm.bat TO CONVERT AT SEVERAL SPEEDS:
=============================================


:: asrt-25-to-80-wpm.bat
:: batch file by DF7TV for DJ5CW's program ebook2cw
:: March 28, 2025
:: Produce mp3 files from 25 to 80 wpm, in different steps of speed
:: configuration file is ebook2cw.conf
::
:: For a samplerate s=11025:
:: - the value of R divided by 11 results approximately in the rise time in ms
:: - the value of F divided by 11 results approximately in the fall time in ms
::
@echo off
FOR /L %%A IN (74,2,80) DO (
echo.
echo *** Converting to Morse Code Audio at %%A wpm ***
echo.
ebook2cw.exe -R 55 -F 55 -w %%A -a "N0HFF, ASRT (2002)" -y 2025 -k "DF7TV, Thomas MARTIN" -t ASRT-%%A-wpm -o ASRT-%%A- N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.txt
)
FOR /L %%A IN (50,2,72) DO (
echo.
echo *** Converting to Morse Code Audio at %%A wpm ***
echo.
ebook2cw.exe -R 77 -F 77 -w %%A -a "N0HFF, ASRT (2002)" -y 2025 -k "DF7TV, Thomas MARTIN" -t ASRT-%%A-wpm -o ASRT-%%A- N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.txt
)
FOR /L %%A IN (35,5,45) DO (
echo.
echo *** Converting to Morse Code Audio at %%A wpm ***
echo.
ebook2cw.exe -R 88 -F 88 -w %%A -a "N0HFF, ASRT (2002)" -y 2025 -k "DF7TV, Thomas MARTIN" -t ASRT-%%A-wpm -o ASRT-%%A- N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.txt
)
FOR /L %%A IN (25,5,30) DO (
echo.
echo *** Converting to Morse Code Audio at %%A wpm ***
echo.
ebook2cw.exe -R 99 -F 99 -w %%A -a "N0HFF, ASRT (2002)" -y 2025 -k "DF7TV, Thomas MARTIN" -t ASRT-%%A-wpm -o ASRT-%%A- N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.txt
)


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Perhaps that helps to convert the file.

The information on Fabian's (DJ5CW) page about ebook2cw will help for other setups.

CU 73
Tom
Re: N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Wow awsome. Thanks for your great efforts, Tom san.
73 Atsu JE1TRV

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2025年4月6日、12:18、"Tom DF7TV via " <mailbox.org@groups.io target=_blank>[email protected]> のメッセージ:

Hello,

Major parts of the book "The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy" by William G Pierpont, N0HFF (2002), have been considerably edited (first by Chuck, W5UXH, then by myself) in a way that, when converted to Morse Code audio by ebook2CW or a similar tool, the audio file provides a pleasant flow of Morse Code. Just  like in a real–world conversational QSO.

The according UTF-8 encoded txt–file is available as archive N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.zip:

               
               
Conversion tool:

               


I would recommend to convert the text file to Morse code audio without additional word spaces, Farnsworth etc.
To progress in CW, just convert it at a speed at which you are challenged, but not frustrated, when listening.
For playback of the audio file, an audio player saving the playback state (currently played track and position) when closing and resuming on next start–up is advantageous.

Example Audacious:

/


CU 73
Tom
N0HFF's book: The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy (2002); TXT-File for conversion to Morse Code audio

 

Hello,

Major parts of the book "The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy" by William G Pierpont, N0HFF (2002), have been considerably edited (first by Chuck, W5UXH, then by myself) in a way that, when converted to Morse Code audio by ebook2CW or a similar tool, the audio file provides a pleasant flow of Morse Code. Just like in a real–world conversational QSO.

The according UTF-8 encoded txt–file is available as archive N0HFF-ASRT-2002-edited-UTF-8.zip:



Conversion tool:




I would recommend to convert the text file to Morse code audio without additional word spaces, Farnsworth etc.
To progress in CW, just convert it at a speed at which you are challenged, but not frustrated, when listening.
For playback of the audio file, an audio player saving the playback state (currently played track and position) when closing and resuming on next start–up is advantageous.

Example Audacious:




CU 73
Tom
[QSP] Early 20th century historic Marconi transatlantic radio telegaph site on the Newfoundland Coast needs your vote

 

Following is the QSP INFO from CWops mailing-list.

// HIRO, JJ1FXF
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This is a time-sensitive issue. Two 111-foot towers in Battle Harbour,
Newfoundland are historic towers of the Marconi Radio Company.
Originally wood, they burned in a 1922 fire and were replaced by
steel towers in 1930.

An organization called the Battle Harbor Historic Trust is trying to repair
and restore these towers. They are in a competition to receive
$50,000 from the Canadian Government to restore the towers to
perfect condition.

The Competition requires votes. You must vote to save the towers
during the next 14 days. You can vote once a day, and use an
email addresses from anywhere in the world.

Why is this important to ham radio? Peter Bull, the director of the trust
to save the towers, is 100% aboard with ham radio. There is a rental
place on Battle Harbour, where a station could be located. That station
could be set up for remote operation (There is StarLink and 5G Cellular service there).
It is a fabulous place for a mini DXPedition!

The towers are in GN20.


image.png
There is huge opportunity for Amateur Radio with these towers: HF/VHF/ETC.
Imagine the signal on the low bands?


image.png
This is all for naught unless we VOTE to save the towers. Anyone in the world can vote!
It costs you just a second to post a VOTE! Again, you can vote every day for the next
14 days and multiple email addresses are ok.

Here's a some important links:

VOTE for the project once a day for the next 12 days


ONLY 12 Days to Vote!
YouTube Video of the project:


CBC Radio Newfoundland Interview about the project:


Tiller Engineering review of tower rebuild:


73,

Gerry W1VE/VE1RM/VO1CDX
Re: Improving the CW activities in Asia

 

Martin-san,

Post your QRV schedule of Sunday here. So I or someone can QSP to JA mailing-list or A1-Chat.

Enjoy your QRV!

// HIRO, JJ1FXF
Meeting

 

Today I had to pleasure of meeting Taku-san JR5GWR. We arranged this before I came to Japan. We had a chat with the help of Google Translate about the Shikoku Henro and morse code in Japan for more than 1 hour. It was fun. Thank you Taku-san.
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73, Martin JL1EFV/5 (PE1EEC)
Re: Improving the CW activities in Asia

 

Thank you for the QSO Atsu-san. I'm having fun here. The second SOTA could have continued a lot longer, but we had to hike still another 15km back to the guesthouse, so I had to pull the plug after half an hour. Hopefully Sunday longer.
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73, Martin JL1EFV/5 (PE1EEC)
Online KONSHIN-KAI, APR 19

 

Online KONSHIN-KAI is an online gathering with some sessions. KONSHIN means "QRM" and KAI means "gathering".

Online KONSHIN-KAI - SPRING Issue

April 19th (SAT), 2025
10:00Z-11:00Z Online Sessions
11:00Z-12:00Z Online Eyeball QSO

Sessions:
1. How to use the keys, straight key, bug key, side swiper key, paddle
2. AQP - A1CLUB QSO Party
3. Giving Back program - QRS QSO oppotunity
4. VarAC - Yet, another digimode for chatting

All sessions and eyeball QSOs will be carried out in Japanese. Some guys can speak English, but preparing the AI Translator is good for better communication.

If you are interested in the Online KONSHIN-KAI, please email with subject: "REQUEST to JOIN Online KONSHIN-KAI" and email body: (1) call sign, (2) CW Name, (3) email address, sending to A1CLUB.ENTRY [at-mark] gmail.com.

Have a good day! 73/88

// HIRO, JJ1FXF
INVITATION TO THE 2025 SP DX CONTEST

 

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4 plaque to win: 3 for Asia and 1 for Japan!
73's de Adam SQ9S #2790C

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??? INVITATION TO THE 2025 SP DX CONTEST??

Since 1933?

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We would like to invite you to participate in the SP DX Contest first full weekend of April (April 5, 2025 from 15:00 UTC Saturday until April 6, 14:59 UTC Sunday).? This is the biggest operating event of the year in Poland with typically over 1000 SP stations on the air on both CW and SSB.? For some, it is a competitive event, for others it is a chance to make a QSO with old friends.? And for others yet, it is their only contest experience of the year and an opportunity to be seen and heard and to have fun.

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The success of this contest depends on the participation of DX stations like you, whether you are a veteran contester or just enjoy making casual contacts and giving SP stations an opportunity to work DX.? It does not matter how much time you can spend and how many QSO’s you can make, we would like to see you in our logs!

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Please visit? ? where you can see the current rules and upload your log after the contest.? Please note that logs can no longer be submitted via email.? We request that the logs be uploaded by April 13, 2025, 23:59 UTC.? All entries will be immediately posted on that web page, followed by email confirmations. ?

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The final results will be processed and made available by May 4. We have adopted an open log policy, so all logs will be in public view.? Note the log analysis functionality that provides some useful information. Just click on your (or any other) call sign in the scores tab. You may test this in 2023, 2024 and other contest archives.

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Along with the results, certificates of participation and top scoring certificates by category, country and continent will be available for download.? We also have a long list of plaques which have been sponsored by individuals and groups which you can see on the web page.? Finally, you can qualify for various levels of the POLSKA Award for working the 16 provinces (województwa) of Poland.

We hope we have made this contest interesting and exciting for you and we look forward to seeing you in the event!

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2025 SP DX Contest Committee

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Polish Amateur Radio Union, SP DX Club

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Re: VarAC

 

GE, HIDE-san.

VarAC is like FT8 but focuses more on text chatting.

VarAC controls radio by CAT if you set up so which listens/speaks to the radio by audio USB interface.

So if the volume of your radio is appropriate, you will hear the receiving signals when the radio is in RX and sending signals when the monitor mode of the radio is ON.

Today on VarAC I got called by someone but VarAC said “No Luck”, no call sign was properly decoded at my side.

So I’m not sure if it was you or not.

GL on setting up your VarAC.

// HIRO, JJ1FXF
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