Welcome to SCAG

Scandinavian CW Activity Group

Resultaten för Straight Key Day på Nyårsdagen  2025!

Årets nyårs SKD är klar och det var som vanligt hårt i toppen vad det gäller betyg på handstil.

Antal deltagare var 34 och det kördes 201 QSO’n med härlig handpump.

Vinnare blev SM7RME Torbjörn på 4,91 p, tvåa blev SM2CEW Peter på 4,90 p och tredjeplatsen gick till SM2BLY Micke på 4,88 i snittpoäng.

Snacka om tajt i tätet. Grattis Torbjörn!

Fullständiga resultat och kommentarer från SKD hittar du genom att klicka här eller på länken till SKD-arkivet i vänsterspalten

Vinnare i utlottningen av en Begali ”Spark” handpump blev SM5COP Rune. (Dragningen gjordes av SM5OCK, Håkan och SM6LZQ, Thorbjörn)

 Vi riktar vi ett mycket stort TACK  och GRATTIS till alla deltagare i Nyårsdagens SKD.

 73 de styrelsen i SCAG

SCAG sponsrar SOCWA 2025 

Även detta år sponsrar vi i SCAG den årliga Scandinavian Open CW Activity eller "SOCWA" genom ett bidrag till SK7BN för driften hemsidan.

73 de SCAG genom SM5OCK, Håkan  

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SCAG årsmöte den 9 april 2025

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SCAG styrelse år 2025

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Ordförande - SM5OCK Håkan Karlsson, Faktorigatan 1, Lgh 1302, 632 17 ESKILSTUNA (Tel: +4670 6309466, email: sm5ock at ssa.se)

Vice ordförande - SM6LZQ Thorbjörn Hultman, Skräddarevägen 7, 444 53 Stenungsund. (tel:+46 70-7413820, email: sm6lzq at ssa.se)

Sekreterare - SM5COP Rune Wande, Sundtorp Dybo 12
647 95 ÅKERS STYCKEBRUK, email: sm5cop at ssa.se)

Kassaförvaltare - SM5GRD Kåre Lekebjer, Villberga Edsta 5
749 51 GRILLBY, email: sm5grd at ssa.se

Styrelseledamot - SM2CEW Peter Sundberg, Börjelsvägen 140, SE-975 98 LULEÅ (tel: +4670 132 02 53 email:sm2cew@telia.com

Valberedning:

SM0TAE Robert Malmqvist (sammankallande)
(tel: +4670 555 38 49 email: robert.malmqvist at telia.com)

Lars-Erik Jacobsson, SM0FDO

(tel: +4670 343 99 69 email: sm0fdo at gmail.com)

Mats Gunnarsson, SM7BUA
(tel: +4670 638 44 32 email: sm7bua at gmail.com)

Revisorer :  SM5KRI Krister and SM5ACQ Donald.

Nyheter från EUCW - European CW Association

Från vår kontaktperson i EUCW Krister SM5KRI kommer följande information:

RM2D
EuCW Chairman

RM2D
EuCW Chairman

EuCW Bulletin No 2025/01
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1) A Happy New CW Year 2025 to all of you. A second time in a row unfortunately a somewhat delayed bulletin from my side. Your Chairman is now stationed in the city of Quozhou, in the Zhejiang province, 400 km south of Shanghai. I have tested my remote connection to SM6LRR in Sweden, but unfortunately bad news. The ping times are close to 300 ms and the maximum should be around 200 ms. This will mean that my CW activity in the next year or two, most likely will be quite low. Anyway, I have applied for (and received) a Chinese Amateur Radio Guest License. This does not mean I can operate my own station, but I will be able to operate from Chinese club stations. We will see if I manage to get time to visit any stations in the year to come. My work schedule is very busy and this newsletter is being composed from TA (Turkey) after visiting EP (Iran). Next countries planned are CE, CP and YB.

2. The Marconi Club ARI Loano organized "Qso Party Day" / 7th edition, always with formula of “Short Contest” This year, the event date was January 4th 2025 from 07:00 utc to 21:00 utc on CW 20-40-80 mt . The aims is to make our Club known to the new generations of CW operators, and bring together all those who truly love and believe in telegraphy. During the event will be involved all members of the historic Club, which today counts almost 1000 Members from more than 60 countries divided in two categories., Members and Independent non-members. The log will be accepted only in Cabrillo format and should be uploaded on the website of Marconi Club. Rules, results and online awards could be downloaded after the contest at https://www.marconiclub.it Thanks to Tony IK1QBT

3) The Hungarian CW Group HACWG was founded in 1985 with 10 founding members. Now there are more than 250 members. They celebrate their 40th birthday this year. On this occasion they plan to activate the HG40CW callsign probably for a month. Details will be worked out later. When it starts you will find HG40CW on the clusters. Thanks Lacy HA3NU

4) The GQRP Club was busy during the festive season with the Winter Sports, an on-air get-togehter event focused on friendly and conversational QSOs that happens between Boxing Day and New Year's Day, both included. The event saw the partecipation of many club memebrs from the UK and from abroad. The Club will have another major activity around Easter, and then will get ready for International QRP Days on the 17th of June, followed by the Summer Sizzler. Check the Club website for more information: https://gqrp.com/awards.htm Thanks Enzo M0KTZ

5) AGCW has the following activities:

01.02. Handtastenparty (Straight Key Party) 80m https://www.agcw.de/contest/htp/htp-en/

12.02. Schlackertastenabend https://www.agcw.de/contest/sta/ (Currently only in German)

04.03. YL-CW-Party https://www.agcw.de/contest/yl-cw-party/yl-cw-party-engl/

12.03. QRP-Contest https://www.agcw.de/contest/qrp/qrp-c-engl/

19.03. VHF/UHF contest https://www.agcw.de/contest/vhf-uhf/ (Currently only in German)

April 15th AGCW-NTC friendship QSO party https://www.agcw.de/funkaktivitaeten/agcw-ntc-aktivitaet/

Then a note about the CW weekend from April 4th to April 6th https://www.agcw.de/das-neue-hotel-fuer-das-cw-wochenende-2025/87946/# (Currently only in German)

We have agreed with the German Amateur Radio Club to hold the activity week on the intangible cultural heritage of Morse telegraphy in the week of the "International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage", which is October 17th. This year it is from October 13th to October 17th. Thanks Martin DL1GBZ

5) In December NTC has organised the last QSO party of the year with a total of about 50 participants. This was one of the themed QSO parties celebrating the name day of Saint Nicholas, PF6SINT being one of the bonus station. Carel PA0CMU has won the 2024 series in the electronic keying section and Lothar DL1DXL in the mechanical keying section. In 2025 we will have our log checker in place so people can upload their logs to the website at https://www.pi4ntc.nl. You are all invited to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Netherlands Telegraphy Club on January 31, rules are at https://pi4ntc.nl/ntcap. The first 3 NTC QSO parties of 2025 will take place on January 16, February 20 and March 20 (every third Thursday of the month). Thanks Joop PG4I

6) The Very High Speed Club has a new secretary/treasurer: Jo PG4I. He was installed as a member of the VHSC board on August 15, 2024. After our previous secretary PA0DIN became silent key all member certificates were lost. We are now in the process of printing new ones. New members can choose to receive a digital version at no cost or a printed, signed version for a small fee covering our postage costs. Rules for joining the VHSC can be found at https://www.morsecode.nl/vhsc%20club.html. In 2024 we have welcomed 5 new members: DF7TV, DL5DXS, EA6EJ, EA6BF and EA4BB. They have all shown to be capable of sending and receiving Morse code at 40 words per minute by making 4 QSO’s with a length of 30 minutes with their VHSC sponsors.

At our request the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (www.rdi.nl) assigned our association the callsign PI4VHC. At the QRZ.com page of PI4VHC you can find a short history of our club.

REQUEST FOR BETTER CONTRIBUTION

The January 2025 bulletin this time is unfortunately VERY thin. My own busy schedule and virtually zero CW activity on the bands does not help either. So if you feel that this Newsletter needs to be longer next time, please already now compose your contribution for the next April Newsletter.

My Chairman role is soon expiring and I have promised to make a CAREFUL review of which member clubs we can consider ACTIVE and which can be considered INACTIVE. Zero contribution to this newsletter during my past 2-3 years, I consider inactivity.

So if you would like to save your club from being on the monitoring for membership evaluation, please take this sentence seriously. It is not possible to be a member club in EuCW if it not even one

contribution to the newsletter has been made in several years, agree?

We have a few more newsletters edited by me, so save your club in EuCw by contributing to the next newsletters please.

73 de Mats RM2D (SM6LRR, SJ6R and YB0LRR)

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Ämne: [EuCW] Personal Introduction

Dear CW friends,

I am reaching out to you, with a short introduction of myself. As you personally might be aware of, I will take over the position as EuCW Chairman for the next three years, representing UQRQC.

It is first of all a true honor to be selected by UQRQC as their representative to lead EuCW for this upcoming period of three years. Thank you for the trust and nomination! I will put my best efforts in strengthening EuCW and the close interaction with all Membership Clubs and our International Associated Clubs.

In order for you to get to know me a bit better, here is a short personal summary:

I was born in Sweden 56 years ago (1966), and grew up near Gothenburg (Göteborg). My first contact with shortwave radio was through my grandfathers old Schaub-Lorenz AM receiver. While doing my first BC DX-ing,

I also heard signs of CW and immediately told myself: This language I need to learn in order to decode all the secret messages that must be hidden on the bands.

In 1979, as a 13-year-old high school student, I was introduced to Ham Radio for the first time. At the school we had a club station (SK6JQ) and this was during a time when 10 meters was in a super shape due to approaching sun spot maximum. What actually interested me mostly at that time was to develop my English language skills by talking to US stations on 10 meters SSB.

However, the requirement to be able to do so from an own station, was of course at that time to also learn CW. I did so during the winter 1979/80, and in September 1980 I was the lucky guy to receive the callsign SM6LRR.

Ten years of intense activity followed, and I still remember the day when I became a member of my first CW club HSC. This was in 1983. SSB interest was more and more replaced with the love for CW, and even during the long QRT-period 1990-2005, I kept the CW knowledge alive. Once you learn to ride a bike, the ability
never disappears.

In 2006 I was selected for a position as Centre Manager for a large IKEA Shopping Centre and moved to Russia. I then realized it would be interesting to also be active as a Swedish Ham in Russia, but the rules for foreign hams in Russia at that time were very unclear, and it took me nearly three years until I finally was awarded with a temporary Russian call R3/SM6LRR (May 2009). In 2012, I got my permanent RM2D callsign.

Ever since, I have been very active on the bands with a keen focus on mainly different CW activities. I appreciate all kinds of Ham Radio directions and some of them are: CW (QRQ and QRS to support newcomers), DX-ing, Contesting, RDA-hunting (and activation).

Approximately 80-85% of my time on the air is CW, with some occasional SSB in between. I have tried digital modes some five years ago, but never got hooked. Although I am not fanatically
trying to be member of all CW clubs there is,

I am still a member of a few (in alphabetical order): CWOps, FOC, HSC, RCWC, SCAG, SKCC, U-QRQ-C. Sometimes I bring my radio along on holidays and business trips, and occasionally I have participated in some DX-expeditions. Calls that I have activated during such occasions include: 5B/SM6LRR, 4S7LRG, XV2LRR, XV2D, 4U70UN, RM2D/0, XV9D, TI9A, 8Q7MS, JT4RR.
 
My home station RM2D is located west of Moscow (100 kms from the Red Square) and consists of a few different radios:  TS-590S/Elecraft K2/Elecraft KX-3, Lab599 TX-500. My antennas are: SP7IDX Hexbeam at 18 meters, vertical for 40 meter, Inv Vees for 80, 30 (and 160 meters to come).

I work CW using Bencher and Bamatech paddles with WinKeyer as well as straight key (Swedish key from 1979). Lately I am trying to also master a vertical bug but take very small and slow steps so far. The Iambic pattern has deeply penetrated into my brains and have issues to switch to sending beautiful bug characters so far.

Last but not least, I am a dedicated believer in Ham Spirit, and Ham Radio as a bridge between people belonging to ANY nation, ANY culture, ANY religion or ANY sexual orientation. We indeed have huge geopolitical challenges, not the least in the country where I chose to live (and plan to live for many years).

Emotions are strong, opinions not less. But my motto is that Ham Radio is, and shall remain an APOLITICAL hobby. Therefore, I am stubbornly resisting any attempts to make me state opinions or take sides in ANY conflicts of the world.

I was raised by my Elmers in 1979-1980 to NEVER talk politics on the bands, or when wearing my Ham Radio Call on a cap or on a t-shirt.

I have friends in many, many countries, and I intend to continue this way to lead EuCW through a challenging time. This, just to straighten any questions marks, and to understand my Ham Spirit view, leadership style and commitment to Amateur Radio as such.

Now to another important topic:  

EuCW is an organization that is supposed to interact as umbrella for lots of independent CW organizations. We are not on top of CW clubs. We are instead (or should be) the glue between clubs, that ensures that CW is always  remaining as the backbone of Amateur Radio in Europe (and elsewhere).

But for EuCW to be efficient and strong defender of CW, I also need YOUR personal help to support me. Every quarter, I am responsible for issuing a newsletter. The quality of that Newsletter partly depends on the input I get from you, as ECM for your CW Club (or Liaison officer for our international Associate Clubs).

My schedule for the newsletters will be the following:

Publication of newsletters not later than seven days from the beginning of each Quarter:

- Latest Jan 7th

- Latest April 7th

- Latest July 7th

- Latest October 7th

This means that I will ask you as ECMs and Liaison Officers to provide your important points beforehand. Let us make things easy. Deadlines for next quarter should be delivered not later than March 25th, June 25th, September 25th and December 20th (Christmas should be peaceful without additional disturbing tasks).

In a few weeks, I will send another letter with small, desired expectations from you guys. We need to ensure that we get better to streamline the quality of information from all member clubs, so we can give a professional picture of EuCW and its members on the homepage. Today, there is a bit of undesired quality and content variations, being my first impression.

Together, I am sure we will be able to make this gradually change in a positive way. Any time you have some questions, always feel free to contact me by email:  sm6lrr@gmail.com or via any of the messaging systems

WhatsApp/Signal/Viber/Telegram/Botim on my number +79150258381

Looking very much forward to working together in EuCW to strengthen European CW in particular as well as International CW!

73 de Mats    RM2D   (SM6LRR)