Nominate for CWops Award

The CW Operators Club (CWops) is now accepting nominations for this year’s Award for Advancing the Art of CW.

Individuals, groups and organisations are all equally eligible, and the award is not limited to amateur radio operators or their organisations.

Nominations may be made by anybody, not just CWops members, and should be emailed to awards@cwops.org with a copy to secretary@cwops.org.

The closing date for nominations is 18 March 2020 and the presentation will be made at Dayton Hamvention.

More Information - http://www.cwops.org

Candidates with 100% CW Copy Receive an Award

In August Thailand's amateur radio society RAST conducted an Intermediate amateur radio exam along with the compulsory 8 WPM Morse code test

On Saturday 24th August 2019 RAST conducted an Intermediate Class amateur radio exam at Bangkok University's Rangsit campus and those who passed will be able to operate on the HF bands.

A total of 96 candidates sat the exam and 44 passed the CW examination at 8 WPM, with 13 of those copying the Morse code that was sent without any errors, including two boys, one 11 years old and the other 14 years old.

Those who passed the CW test -- E21HYR, E22NGP, E24TFP, E24VRK, E25AFQ, E25AQB, E25DHO, E25DOY, E29TGW, HS3QET, HS3QGB, HS5QQT and HS8NKB -- with 100% copy were awarded a world map by RAST.