David M0WDD’s reflections on the latest CW Fun day.
Each CW Fun Day brings surprises and enjoyable Morse Code experience for all participants. And for the first time, members of three local clubs worked together to make the latest CW Fun Day a great success, achieving 37 QSOs logged over 8 HF/2m/70cm bands. Nets ran every hour through the day from 11am to 6pm, with speed about 18wpm, with straight key net about 12wpm. We averaged about 5 contacts per band.
Local collaboration worked well with controllers from all three clubs, and members of each represented in the many callers.
Surprises included adverse weather conditions changing planned portable net controlling to home based, a late controller change, use of 17m band for the first time, and expanding previous use of 6m. We also had encouraging caller comments, such as “my first 2m CW in thirty years” and “was working you on my FT817 with no cw filter but listened for your tone in the pileup”.
The CW Fun Day was about enjoying short friendly QSOs rather than fast and furious contest style exchanges, and all controllers and callers seemed to have enjoyed the experience.
Other feedback from social media and emails included requests, next time, to include 20m; to include a Beginners Slow Speed net about 12wpm, and more regular CW Fun Days. We will do our best!
Thank you to all controllers and callers who contributed to making the day a great success.
25th October 2025
| CW Fun Day, Sunday 19 October 2025, Calls Summary | ||||
| Net | UTC Start Time | Band | Controller | Calls |
| 1 | 10:00 | 40m | M0WDD David | 6 |
| 2 | 11:00 | 30m | M0WDD David | 2 |
| 3 | 12:00 | 17m | G0LLU Andy | 5 |
| 4 | 13:00 | 2m | M0TJU Evan | 6 |
| 5 | 14:00 | 70cm | M0TJU Evan | 3 |
| 6 | 15:00 | 6m | M0UFC Mark | 5 |
| 7 | 16:00 | 40m str key | M0WDD David | 5 |
| 8 | 17:00 | 80m | M0TJU Evan | 5 |
| Total | 37 | |||
Join in our next CW Fun Day events on Sunday 19th October 2025 – open to any morse code operators; beginners or experienced; all welcome. There are no logins – just short friendly QSOs.
The CW Fun Day has eight separate “nets” running hourly on different bands through the day, each hosted by a controller, from 11am local time. CW speed is 15wpm-18wpm; but controller can adjust to match a caller.
Enjoy the CW Fun Day and have simple short QSO, standard or rag chew. It’s not a contest – just an opportunity to enjoy some on-air CW with friendly CW operators.
Each controller calls CQ with their own callsign. You listen for the callsign and answer by either sending your own callsign once followed by K, or by sending Controller Callsign DE Your Callsign followed by K. Exchanges can range from just callsigns, names and reports to more details such as location, rig, antenna, power, etc.
We start at 11am UK time, on 40 metres. The controller will call CQ on 7024 KHz. If the frequency is busy or QRM the controller will move up 0.5 to 7024.50 until 7024 is free. Please note that a net controller callsign may be changed at short notice, so listen carefully for the callsign.
If there are several callers replying at the same time, the controller will try to ensure as many as possible have a QSO in turn, so please be patient and call again after the next CQ call. We ask that QSOs can be kept relatively short for a busy net, to about 6 minutes.
We recommend use of Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) or Ham Alert, to check for controller callsign and exact calling frequency.
CW Fun Day Sunday 19th October 2025 – Schedule and start times
| UTC Start | UK Start | Controller | Name | Band | Freq MHz +/- |
| 10:00 | 11am | M0WDD | David | 40 Metres | 7.024 |
| 11:00 | 12noon | G3SHF | Ben | 30 Metres | 10.124 |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | G0LLU | Andy | 17 Metres | 18.074 |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | M0TJU | Evan | 2 Metres | 144.064 |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | M0TJU | Evan | 70 Centimetres | 432.064 |
| 15:00 | 16:00 | M0UFC | Mark | 6 Metres | 50.080 |
| 16:00 | 17:00 | M0WDD | David | 40 Metres Strt Key | 7.024 |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | M0TJU | Evan | 80 Metres | 3.524 |