FISTS CW Club

The International Morse Preservation Society

 

“Keeping Morse alive “

FISTS was founded in 1987 by the late Geo Longden , G3ZQS

FISTS Operating Frequencies to Monitor and work members

 

FISTS calling frequencies :

Recommended area of activity +/- 10 kHz

2m 144.058 MHz, 6m Use any authorized CW frequency

10m 28.058 MHz, 12m 24.918 MHz

15m 21.058 MHz, 17m 18.085 MHz

20m 14.058 MHz, 30m 10.118 MHz

40m 7.028 MHz, 80m 3.558 MHz

160m 1.818 MHz

Note, we have been accused of not working none members so when calling on these freq.'s please alternate you CQ’s so that you do not exclude none members from calling you,

E.G.

Call CQ FISTS DE “call” if you wish but also send  standard CQ CQ DE call  so others will reply to your calls too.

FISTS wants to encourage ALL amateurs to use CW, Not just excising members of FISTS.

And remember to match the speed of the slower station, ensure you QRS if asked. Don’t assume if its G3/G2 coming back to your call he will be comfortable at 25 wpm. Experience as shown that we have many members that are Key shy due to only high speeds being used, you may get more replies to your CQ call if you drop your speed to below 12 wpms. Give it a try !

If your member or not, give a call on these frequencies at what ever speed your happy at be it 5 wpm or 35 wpm and you will most likely get a reply from one of our members, we pride ourselves with having a friendly , helpfully membership that are always ready to help the newcomer as well as veteran operators.

We have a number of club stations that monitor these frequencies and even a special slow speed station GB2SCW (SLOW CW) that are on the look out for novice operator that need encouragement. GB2SCW will only operate slow speed CW even when in communication with experienced CW stations, this will ensure that the novice operator has chance to brush up on their RX skills by listening to QSO’s at a speed that they can handle.

We would therefore ask any station working GB2SCW to keep it QRS below 12 wpm . Thanks

Paul M0BMN (Op of GB2SCW)

Location IO82WN (Nr Wolverhampton)

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