Our Mission
The International CW Council (ICWC) – founded 16th January 2021 – comprised of representatives from CW clubs world-wide, promotes and aids in the retention and growth of International Morse Code as a mode of communication between amateur radio operators.
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Our Goals
- Retention and growth of the use of International Morse Code as a mode of communication between amateur radio operators
- Promoting and publicizing the mentoring of prospective operators to learn International Morse Code and use it as a mode of communications
- Providing outreach to amateur radio operators, who use other modes, to explore using CW
- Publicizing and promoting the use of CW as a mode of communications to social media, amateur radio and other well-known organizations, by providing resource information for them
- Encouraging inter-CW Club cooperation and joint activities
Our Accomplishments
- CWops Giving Back Programm: CWops manages a program that encourages CW activity. The ICWC coordinated a volunteer effort from its members, which not only doubled participation but also increased the scope and frequency of this worldwide, daily event.
- UNESCO IntangibeI Cultural Heritage Program: ICWC gave its support to the initiative to add Morse Code to the UNESCO IntangibleI Cultural Heritage Program.
Our Member Clubs
- AGCW-DL, Germany
- A1 CLUB, Japan
- CWJF, Brazil
- CWops, USA
- CW QRS (Telegram Group), Italy
- European CW Association (EUCW), Europe
- EA CW, Spain
- 4SQRP, USA
- First Class CW Operators’ Club (FOC)
- FISTS CW Club
- French Telegraphic Club (CFT), Belgium
- International Independent CW Club (CQCW), Russia
- Keymen’s Club of Japan (KCJ), Japan
- K1USN Radio Club (K1USN), USA
- LIDS
- Long Island CW Club, USA
- Maritime Operators Radiotelegraphy Service (MORSE), Italy
- Netherlands Telegraphy Club (NTC), The Netherlands
- North American QRP CW Club (NAQCC), USA
- PRO-CW-CLUB, Romania
- QRP Amateur Radio Club International (QRP-ARCI)
- RCWC, Russia
- SP-CW-C, Poland
- Straight Key Century Club (SKCC), USA
- Tortugas CW Group, Spain
- True Blue DXers Club
- UFT, France
- VK Radio Amateur Group, Australia