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Richard's Winning Morse KeyThe Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) recently held their annual constructors competition. There were plenty of high quality entries. Club members voted for the best entry in a secret ballot and the overall winner was Richard Beck M3YLB who submitted a Morse key mounted on a solid slab of granite. Richard said it was working the granite that was the hardest part. In particular channelling out the underside for the fixing posts. Richard nearly didn’t submit his entry as he hadn’t quite completed it, he has yet to engrave all the Morse characters on the granite.
Although he lives in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, a large town of 165,000 people, the nearest Foundation course to him was the 6-week course in Danbury near Chelmsford, an hour's drive away. Fortunately the distance didn’t deter him and the course tutors were impressed by his enthusiasm and his infatigable energy and desire to succeed. Since obtaining his licence, Richard has been active in encouraging others in Southend to take up Amateur Radio. He has helped with their many questions about the tuition material and even provided some of them with transport to get to Danbury. Due to the considerable interest among Foundation holders to learn Morse CARS has started Morse classes under the leadership of Andrew Kersey G0IBN. Richard was the first to enrol on the course, which is just as well as it was quickly oversubscribed ! Listen out for Richard on 40 and 20 metres CW. CARS are now taking names for their next Foundation course. For details
contact the training organiser Clive G1EUC
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