{"id":7950,"date":"2024-04-24T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:12:28","slug":"april-meeting-k6rb-on-cw-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/7950","title":{"rendered":"Club Meeting April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">Rob Brownstein&nbsp; K6RB BIO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">I was first licensed in June 1958 as KN2UMU at age 11. In April 1959 I passed my general and became K2UMU. I upgraded to extra class in 1970, then moved to California in 1973. My call sign was changed to NS6V in 1982, and to K6RB in 1997. I am primarily a CW operator spending about half my time rag chewing, and the other half, contesting with a modest station.&nbsp;I am a member of CWops, the Northern California Contest Club (NCCC), and FOC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\"><strong>Giving Back&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">These days in addition to the usual activities, I help hams acquire and\/or improve their CW skills. The CW Operators club (CWops) sponsors a three-time-per-year CW training program. I volunteer as an advisor to a group of students each of the three semesters. The program has become very popular. Information is available at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cwops.org\/cw-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cwops.org\/cw-<wbr>academy\/<\/a>&nbsp;. In addition, since&nbsp;January 1 2020, several operators in various time zones get on 40 and\/or 80 meters, at 7 PM local, between 7.035 and 7.045 and\/or 3.535 and 3.545, operating at 15-20 wpm, and offer QSO practice to those who want to improve their CW skills. They will be heard calling CQ and adding &#8220;GB&#8221; after their callsign sequence. That will identify those operators as volunteers who are there to offer QSO practice. My sked is Tuesday, Friday and Sunday at 7 PM local (PT or PDT). The schedule for others can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cwops.org\/giving%20back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cwops.org\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cwops.org\/giving%20back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">giving back\/<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Brownstein&nbsp; K6RB BIO. I was first licensed in June 1958 as KN2UMU at age 11. In April 1959 I passed my general and became K2UMU. I upgraded to extra class in 1970, then moved to California in 1973. My &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/7950\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Club Meeting April 2024<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2024","category-club-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8632,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/8632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}