EuCW Bulletin No 2022/04 (October 7th, 2022) 1) EuCW has as previously been informed a new Chairman. RM2D (SM6LRR) Mats is representing U-QRQ-C as Chairman for the next three years. If you would like to contact Mats, please send him an email to: sm6lrr@gmail.com We would needless to say, also like to thank IZ2FME, Miki, for his good efforts as Chairman during the past period. 2) ICWC (International CW Council) was founded with EUCW as one of the initial founders. Today ICWC consists of 32 member associations with a total of 95000 CW operators around the world. The council actively supports many activities that promote active usage of CW. Just to mention a few: Creation of a webpage with all associations included (with logos) and the online calender https://internationalcwcouncil.org/cw-events-calendar/ Support the effort to make CW part of the UNESCO Cultural Heritage program TOP9 Activity with focus on making minimum five minutes QSOs in the top 9 kHz of each CW band to show overall activity and protect the CW-sections form digital encroachment MST (Medium Speed Contest) was established at three separate times weekly on Mondays and Tuesdays to give more opportunities to operators in the 20-25 WPM speed range and to populate the CW bands on those days. 3) AGCW reminds about the following activities in Q4 (and for 2022 as a whole): https://www.agcw.de/contest/sta/ 90 minutes Bug-Contest on Oct 19. https://www.agcw.de/contest/freundschafts-aktivitaet/ Permanent activity for ragchewers. All QSOs must be longer than ten minutes. https://www.agcw.de/contest/tzap/ For stations interested in the AGCW Bulletin on 80m https://www.agcw.de/contest/bug-und-cootie/ Permanent activity for Bug and Cootie operators. URLs are in German but all activities are open to all. If translation is needed, please contact Mats SM6LRR, who will ask relevant documents in English from AGCW. 4) OK QRP Club, http://okqrp.fud.cz/ organize every year in February a short QRP contest on 80 meters with 5W and 1W categories. The contest is open to all amateurs. A DXCC ladder up to 5W is published on the homepage. Yearly participation with a booth during the international Ham Radio meeting in Holice. Also close cooperation with HAMIK (Little Ham) that focuses on children and young operators. HAMIK Corner contains various articles such as small CW transmitters & receivers, CW keys and paddles, methods for learning CW (suitable for younger as well as older perople). The book HAMIK MAX can be ordered at info@hwkitchen.cz 6) EuCW history. You can find the EuCW history at: https://www.eucw.org/eucwh.html. 7) The associated club LICW (Long Island CW Club) is based in the USA. They teach Morse Code and related Ham Radio topics through Zoom with 75 classes weekly. The membership count now exceeds 3100 members in 50 states and 47 countries (many of our members are also members of the club. They would like to expand the activities to Europe and also give classes at suitable times for our time zones. More information can be found on the website: longislandcwclub.org 8) EuCW Bulletins. Everyone can download the EuCW bulletins at: https://www.eucw.org/qtc.html. 9) The new sunspot cycle looks promissing. With increased SFI and sunspot numbers, even 10 and 12 meter bands have lately started to become alive. The first real openings to North America as well as the Pacific have become possible. Last time was probably in 2014 when we could consider stable transatlatic propagation on 12/10 meters. Please make use of these openings and remember to also spread the activity to the upper 9 kHz of the CW bands. That means 24.906-24.915 kHz on 12 meters and 28.061-28.070 on ten meters. Do not forget to log those QSOs and submit them for our own program Snakes and Ladders (rules: https://eucw.org/sl3.html ) and to TOP9 (rules: https://internationalcwcouncil.org/top9-activity/ ) Best regards and 73! RM2D (SM6LRR) Mats EuCW Chairman