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Each month the latest version of the club’s  newsletter  “Solid Copy”   is posted here for you to read.

The newsletter will cover the last month’s news and provide articles about CW-related topics including, Ops News and Notes, Giving Back, CW Academy, New Members, CWops Tests, CWops Member Awards, QTX Report, and My Story: New Member Biographies. It may include photos, audio files, and other content.  Members are encouraged to submit articles about their personal ham radio adventures or interests. Scroll to the bottom of this page for related contact information.


Solid Copy No 184 – May 2025

President’s Message
Editor’s Notes: Help Wanted – Cartoonist
Ops News and Notes
How We Were: W8LVN
Info: North America CW Weekend
N9EEE: Keys We Lust – Begali Keys Interview
K4RUM: Apartment Remote
NA6O, N4TMM: Ham Shack for Jenna
GØTRT: The Endeavour of CW
W8HW: The $1 Screw That Cost $10,000
KF7WX: Hamfest Exhibits: Lessons Learned
Annct: Going To Hamvention?
New Members
Giving Back
CW Academy
CWT Update
CWops Member Awards
QTX: The Art of Conversational CW
My Story: New Member Introductions

Content Deadline: The first of any month to be appear that month.

We welcome any member to submit material for “Solid Copy” by emailing your input to the newsletter editor Dick Strassburger, N9EEE: SolidCopy@cwops.org

 Download “Editorial Policy and Style Guidelines for Solid Copy

  • In .docx format for Microsoft Word from HERE
  • In PDF format from HERE

Download the “SI Check List” provided by Bruce N7RR HERE

For previous Years’  Solid Copy Newsletters visit the archive area


The Internet Archive is now hosting back issues of the CWops newsletter, Solid Copy, from 2010 through last month’s issue as an alternate resource to our own website archive. There are powerful search facilities to select years etc and global text search capability across the whole archive back to February 2010. Try it and see what you think.  https://archive.org/details/solidcopy

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