[SECC] Annouoncement: CWTs this Wednesday, Slower Speed Versions

[John Laney]

Here is this week's promo announcement for the CWOps Club CWT Mini Tests 
on Wednesday.  1300Z and 1900Z Wed and 0300Z Thurs (Wed local date) for 
one hour each. What is different this week is that to encourage recent 
CW Academy graduates, the maximum speed is supposed to be 20 WPM.  I am 
sure they will slow down even more upon request.  A good time to get 
some new CW ops involved in these fun weekly events.  Rather than 
calling others, a new op might want to simply call "CQ CWT" on the high 
end of the activity area and works those who come back at or near the 
speed used in the CQ.  73, John, K4BAI.


This week's mini-CWT tests will be special slow-speed versions to 
celebrate the latest CW Academy graduating class (for more on CW 
Academy, see <http://www.cwops.org/cwacademy.html>). Please keep your CW 
speed under 20 wpm to encourage new graduates to join in. Try to resist 
the temptation to demonstrate your speed demon prowess for this one day; 
that can be more than a little off-putting to a newcomer. For those of 
us in North America, a bit of slow-speed relaxation might be just what 
the doctor ordered after the pressure environment of Sweepstakes.

CWTs are one-hour mini-tests held every Wednesday at 1300Z and 1900Z and 
Thursday at 0300Z (Wednesday evening in North America). The CWT exchange 
is simple: your name and CWOps number, or name and 
state/province/country prefix for non-members. New CWA graduates will be 
sending CWA in place of the CWOps number or SPC.

Non-members of CWOps are always welcome, not just during this week's 
special event. Many of our members first found out about and eventually 
joined the CWOps club by way of the CWTs.

Scoring is one point per QSO, with one multiplier point for each unique 
call sign worked regardless of the band. See 
<http://www.cwops.org/cwt.html> for more details. There is no log 
submission, but we would like participants to please post their scores 
at 3830scores.com (thanks to Bruce Horn, WA7BNM for making this 
infrastructure available).

Let's take things easy this week; next week will be back to normal.

73,
Rich VE3KI
CWOps Tests Manager
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