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11 February 2025 at 14:11 #1770
M0PWX
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    Hi Iain

    welcome to the Hobby

    if you are going down the CW route, there are a number of good free programs to help you like the g4fon program https://www.g4fon.net/CW%20Trainer2.php and web pages to help you learn to read CW (i have never managed due to lack of time and patience)

    i work pretty much only FT4/8 digital modes on HF, i do occasionally use FLDigi to read some CW, PSK31 and olivia QSO’s, and by nature i do pickup like the CW sounds of common items like CQ etc

    a cheap RTL-SDRBLOG.com dongle will get you started on HF listening with a basic wire antenna, or one of the cheap qrp-labs QCX 5w transceiver kits (Hans build instructions are great and very detailed, you can download and look at them before you buy, and there is a very active groups.io forum around qrp labs for help as well)

    73
    Peter M0PWX
    (not Pete M0PSX who runs this site)