>From Nizar K0NM……
From: Nizar Mullani [mailto:[email protected]] Fellow CWops Member – We are pleased to report that the state of our club is excellent. We continue to grow, and our initiatives have taken our club to new levels of achievement. You are part of this vibrant, active group of CW operators, and we appreciate your membership. There are 3 items we need to mention. Please be kind enough to read this message carefully. 1. We have over 300 students graduating annually from our CW Academy. For those of us regularly active in CWT sessions, we see an increase in participation in part from these new CW enthusiasts. We need to do more, and we need your help. Please go to our club website and read about the CW Academy. We need more advisors (teachers) who can spend two hours a week, during an eight-week semester, helping grow our CW community. If you’ve ever taught, you know how satisfying it is. Just reading these words doesn’t transport you to the sense of accomplishment and pride you’ll feel, however. You really have to do it once. Please take a look on the www.cwops.org <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CWops/f7128b54a4/52840b99c6/86c9327f6e> website, read about CWA and follow up. If your schedule doesn't allow you to fully commit to being a CWA advisor, then please consider our recently launched CWA HF program where you can sign up for a time slot in the evenings during the week to get on 7.035 MHz or nearby and work stations that go there for CW practice. You call CQ CWA HF, or call CQ and sign with your call and "CWA" at the end, and respond to students seeking practice. There is a UTC calendar on the CWops website with further information on how to sign up for a CWA HF slot. These QSOs can even count for QTX, discussed below. Finally, for those who are already CWA advisors, we have now the Star Students program that allows advisors to elevate students to Associate Advisor status. The Associate Advisors can assist the advisors by giving one-on-one help to struggling students, gaining even more experience themselves and preparing to become fully qualified CWops members and advisors. The CW Academy is quite something and we hope you’ll consider being part of it. 2. Most of us spend less time on the air than we might prefer, but there are two CWops activity initiatives that can help focus your limited availability. First, there’s the weekly CWT QSO parties. These are not really contests because there is no winner as such (though scores are posted on a website). The fun is to make contacts in fairly rapid fashion with fellow members and others. It’s great CW practice, too. CWT occurs every Wednesday at 13z, 19z, and 03z (Thursday) on the usual bands. No matter where you are, at least one of the sessions should give you skip sufficient to make lots of contacts. The second activity is QTX. An award is given for participating in 20-minute or longer QSOs. See our website for details. For those interested in our more staged and publicized annual QSO party, look for the CW Open (CWO) on-air activity scheduled for September 5. Mark it on your calendar, review the rules on our website, and plan on participating! If you’re a CW operator, you’ll want to do CWT, QTX or CWO! 3. We know that there are lots of great CW operators out there who have not yet gotten the word about the panache of being a CWops member!! Whether you work a non-member in a CWT or while ragchewing, why not nominate the operator for CWops membership? Ah, you don’t know how to nominate somebody! Here’s how: First, ask the operator (on the air or by email using QRZ.COM) if s/he would like to be a CWops member, noting the CW Academy, the on-air activities, the camaraderie, etc. (Better yet, tell him or her why you’re a member!) If the operator says “yes,” go to our website, www.cwops.org <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CWops/f7128b54a4/52840b99c6/72e7c750de> , click on “members only” and use “telegrapher” for the login and “morse8” for the password. Then fill out the form. It’s quick and simple. If you are the first to nominate him or her, use the nomination form. Otherwise, use the sponsorship form. Please don’t forget to keep up on your fellow members and club news by reading the club Newsletter, edited by N6XI every month. 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