Please join us Thursday (and every Thursday) at 4PM Eastern for the Michigan QRP Club weekly QRP Chat where the main topics will be QRP and other ham interests. This weeks topic will be LPF design and construction.

We had eleven folks join us for the chat on 19 September. The topic was CW Practice.

Ed AB8DF

Pete WK8S

Tony W8CDC

Rick K8BMA

Stuart M0SGV

John M7FCZ

Ernie W3ETE

Fred WD9HNU

Ron W8CV

Casey K9IH

Dave N8SBE

It was John’s first time joining us. He is newly licensed. He uses a 20 meter end feed but he is in a HOA situation. Does kits. STEM ambassador working with adults changing careers.

Rick learned with the old way with a chart. Long Island CW Club member. Taught LICWC for a while then did? CW Academy and ended up using CW Innovations. He recommends group participation. It does not happen overnight.

Ron does 15 wpm. Listens to ARRL code practice. Hand writing is too slow and he is sloppy sending at higher speeds. Trying to copy in his head. Wants to get on 80 meters with a 40 meter loop.

Ernie says that CW Academy has files that you can listen to get practice with head copy. Do not try to do 100% copy. They have the most common words used in a QSO. Learned the old way and needed to relearn to do head copy. Records and plays back QSOs. Learn Mose Code on the youtube. It was nice when there were lots on Novices on the air cuz there was always slow CW stations to work.

Dave likes . Also contesting helps copy callsigns.

Stuart does 14 wpm and it seems that there is an obsession with folks trying to speed.?

Tony wishes he could unlearn CW so he could focus on words and not individual characters. Machine generated and computer decode is that what people do?

Please join us Thursday (and every Thursday) at 4PM Eastern for the Michigan QRP Club weekly QRP Chat where the main topics will be QRP and other ham interests. It's fun, it's easy, and it's free. You only need a computer, a smart phone, or a tablet that can connect to the Internet. OR if you can't be close to any of those you can join by audio with any standard phone. Just follow the directions below. No software needs be loaded or installed. Anyone can join and non members are welcome. Details are here:

This weeks topic will be LPF design and construction.

Anyone can take the floor and tell us about LPF design and construction. We will go one by one until all have had a chance to have the floor. Files, pictures and presentations can be shared if you have any. There will be time for comments and questions. Please try to stay muted when someone has the floor.

We have a list of future topics:

Designing Antennas

Antenna construction

If you suggestions for topics, please send them to:

Ed

AB8DF

ekwik at