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| Nancy WZ8C Memorial Event |
Geo G3ZQS Memorial Event |
The club has many activities and membership in FISTS is not required to participate, just a love of Morse! All FISTS activities are designed to promote camaraderie among members of the club and help hams hone and improve their Morse skills.
FISTS Calling Frequencies
FISTS members can be found on or near any frequency ending in .x58 or .xx8 (.058, .158, .258, etc.) Here are recommended calling frequencies by band.
BAND Frequency BAND Frequency 160m 1.808 MHz 17m 18.085 MHz 80m 3.558 MHz 15m 21.058 MHz 40m 7.058 MHz - IARU Region 2 12m 24.908 MHz 40m 7.028 MHz - All IARU Regions 10m 28.058 MHz 30m 10.118 MHz 6m 50.085 MHz 20m 14.058 MHz 2m 144.058 MHz
* Please Note : The calling frequencies on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters - are only 2 kHz below the QRP calling frequencies (7.030 MHz is the QRP calling frequency in Europe).
FISTS FRIDAY - Operating Event
FISTS FRIDAY RULES are as follows:
[1] Purpose of this event is to increase FISTS activity during the Thanksgiving Weekend.
[2] Operate during your local 24 hour period on the Friday After Thanksgiving.
[3] You must make one on-the-air CW QSO during FISTS Friday with any CW station on any band. No exchange required.
[4] A FISTS Friday award certificate, in PDF format, will be available on on this website for you to download and print.
This is not a contest. All that is required is for one QSO to be made. Hopefully, you will want to make more than one QSO.
A FISTS Friday certificate will be available for downloading "HERE" This link will be available for three days after FISTS Friday.
Nancy Kott - Memorial Event!
On the third full weekend in April, we will celebrate Nancy Kott's, (WZ8C - SK) long service to FISTS CW Club and the Ham Radio community.
Nancy met FISTS' founder George, (G3ZQS - SK) in a QSO in 1988, befriended him and shortly became the head of what is now The Americas Chapter of FISTS. From then till her passing on 2 March of 2014, she worked tirelessly to promote our club and Morse code, showing kindness to all and exemplifying our mottos of "courtesy at all times" and "accuracy transcends speed". She is deeply missed by all, but not forgotten.
Operation will be on all Amateur bands.
This operating event is a friendly celebration of what Nancy called her life's work. All are certainly encouraged to give out their FISTS numbers and collect others but more importantly, to simply be good FISTS that Nancy would be proud of. Let's promote CW on the air, make friends and encourage beginners in accordance with our club's mission.
SPRINT INFORMATION
* * * SPRINT - NOTICE * * *
Sprints will NOT continue in 2026 due to a lack of sufficiant participation.
Thanks to all who participate in the 2025 Sprints !
Many, many thanks to Ashley KX4ASH our Sprint Manager for her tireless time and
efforts to receive logs, tabulate results, make and send out PDF certificates to
the winners, and to make the Sprints happen during 2025.
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G3ZQS MEMORIAL STRAIGHT KEY EVENT
The G3ZQS Memorial Straight Key Event will be celebrated each year during the first full Saturday and Sunday weekened in September.
The FISTS Club, (International Morse Preservation Society) was founded in 1987 by the
late George "Geo" Longden G3ZQS of Darwen, Lancashire England, after recognising a need
for a club in which veteran operators would help newcomers and less-experienced operators
learn and improve CW proficiency.
The original Introduction to FISTS by Geo holds as true today as it did when he wrote it.
"A love of Morse is the only requisite for membership; there are no others."
Operation will be on all Amateur bands.
This operating event is a celebration of our late founder George "Geo" Longden G3ZQS.
All FISTS club members are encouraged to seekout, help, and encourage beginning CW operators to enjoy using Morse code in accordance with our club's mission.
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