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face="Meta Correios Portugal">Infelizmente, programas idênticos em Portugal,
tiveram de ser interrompidos pelos seus organizadores devidos a várias
contingências...( para não lhes chamar outras coisas ).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Meta Correios Portugal">João Costa, CT1FBF</FONT></DIV>
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<H1>Colchester CW programme</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The <STRONG>Colchester Radio Amateurs</STRONG> (CRA) CW
programme is proving to be a great success.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Jonathan G0DVJ of the<STRONG> Essex CW Amateur Radio
Club</STRONG> writes:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The CW practice programme introduced by the Colchester
Radio Amateurs at the end of July continues to be popular and attendances at the
face to face sessions are consistently between 9 and 12 people, which is great.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Given this participation level, following the initial three
month trial, the committee has decided that the programme should be continued.
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Attendees continue to make progress with their level of
competence, especially those who make the time to do additional practice
themselves in between sessions. Ten of the regular participants have also now
joined the CRA user group at </FONT><A href="http://www.lcwo.net/"
target=_blank><FONT face=Tahoma>www.lcwo.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma> as an
additional practice method, which is great since it allows progress to be
tracked and compared.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The on-air sessions on 2m at 9.30pm local time on Sundays
(FM, 145.450MHz) and Mondays (SSB, 144.160MHz) are also now well established.
Another ex-county examiner for the Morse code tests, Andy G0IBN, now secretary
of the Essex CW ARC, has also said he would like to visit one of the up-coming
face to face CRA sessions to see how we run them but I expect we will persuade
him to do some sending for the people gathered too!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Andy also sends slow morse code practice transmis-sions as
a part of the national RSGB GB2CW scheme, each Wednesday evening on 3555KHz ±QRM
at 20.15 local time. There is also an opportunity to call in to Andy at the end
of the broadcast in CW, for those who wish to practise sending in a short QSO
too. I would recommend that CRA CW programme participants also consider
listening to Andy's transmissions for additional practice
opportunities.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The next face to face CW session at the Drama studio, St.
Helena school will be on 28th October and I hope to see as many as possible
there. It is also not too late for any new-comers to begin attending, so don't
be shy!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Essex CW Amateur Radio Club<BR>Encouraging CW use on the
Amateur Bands<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.essexcw.org.uk/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.essexcw.org.uk/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Colchester Radio Amateurs<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.g3co.ccom.co.uk/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.g3co.ccom.co.uk/</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma>
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