Category Archives: CW Academy

Gold medal for 2022 CWTs

While I was taking the advanced CWops classes I started participating in their weekly CWTs (short one hour long CW sprint contests).  For the 2021 year, I finished with a silver medal (meaning I had participated in at least 90 … Continue reading

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Goal Review and New Goals for 2023

2022 was a good year in terms of my goals.  I was able to complete all 5. Teach a CW Academy Course (Winter 2022) Teach a Technician Course (Spring 2022) Conduct NCRC’s first electronic VE exam (Spring 2022) Build my … Continue reading

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Silver Medal for CWT 2021

A few days ago I received a package in the mail from CWops.  It contained a Silver Medal Participation Award for 2021. CWops does a lot to further interest in Morse Code.  To begin with they offer a very comprehensive … Continue reading

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Goal Review 2022

I started the year with 5 goals.  Two have been completed and two are underway: Teach a CW Academy Course – This goal has been completed after teaching 16 classes in January and March.  All seven students were advanced to … Continue reading

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Completed my CWops Beginner Class Instruction

I had the privilege of working with seven students across 9 different time zones this winter as their advisor/instructor for a CW Academy Beginner CW class.  After 16 sessions (twice a week for eight weeks), I’m happy to say that … Continue reading

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2021 Goal Review and 2022 Goals

For the first time ever, all goals for a year were completed in 2021 Teach a Technician Class (Completed) Reach 1500 Band-Points in the DXCC Challenge (Completed with 1,521) Complete DXCC on 160-Meters (Completed) Reach a total of 50 park … Continue reading

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CWT Contest #80 Completed!

Well the day started off on the wrong foot when I forgot to take into account the clock change and showed up for the 1300Z CWT an hour late! (I couldn’t figure out why the band was dead.)  I recovered from … Continue reading

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