RagChew Newsletter

Submitting Reports

Submission Deadline: 20:00Z Wednesday night UTC (06:00 Thurs AEST).

Submit at: bit.ly/CQQRSNET

Submit accompanying photos to: cqqrsnet@gmail.com

Your reports are what makes the RagChew such intersting reading, please take five minutes each week to share something from your Tuesday evening.  :)

Submitting Articles / Letters to the Editor

Submission Deadline: 20:00Z Tuesday night UTC (06:00 Wed AEST).

Submit to:  cqqrsnet@gmail.com

Members' articles make the newsletter such an interesting read.  We accept pretty much anything of interest to CW operators.  Topics may include your latest project to a piece of radio theory explained, or perhaps something about operating from times gone bye.  The scope is wide and the audience friendly, so why not have a go at writing something up?

And please make it look interesting at attractive to our readers by adding one or more images.  Note under Australian copyright law, images for the newsletter must be your own, or you must have received permission from the originator to publish;  images from the Internet generally cannot be used unless marked as Creative Commons or similar, or you have the originator's permission (preferably in writing).  The same applies to text material - you must have the originator's permission unless you are quoting small parts only, in which case you will still need to site the originator. 

The RagChew newsletter uses by design a particularly relaxed but positive writing style;  the style has been chosen to reflect the net's principles used to support and encourage our team.   For more info on the principles of the CQQRS net and the newsletter, see our Principles section - click here.  To help make your article easy and enjoyable to read, here's some suggestions:

• Clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought;  plan the key points.

• Avoid the metaphors and other figures of speech that you too often see in print.

• Don't use a long word where a short one will do.

• If it's possible to cut-out a word, cut it out.

• Avoid jargon if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

• Apostrophe-S is used only to indicate ownership (eg the key's cable).  Do not use 'apostrophe s'  for plurals.

• Respect copyright - do not use other peoples images or text unless you have their permission, or are quoting small sited text. 

• Break any of these guidelines - except the copyright one - rather than say anything that a reader might find grating.

A note on A.I authoring.  

By all means use your AI of choice to research and brainstorm, but we'd like to read your thoughts and words, even if it's nor perfect.  It's the human aspect which makes it engaging.  Sadly, the web is now littered with A.I. noise; let's keep RagChew a sanctuary of human expression.

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