Young hams around the world have once again declared this "Meme Appreciation Month," even though this activity actually runs through to the 15th of August. From Hungary to the Philippines, Canada and Austria, the popular activity of sharing icons and text is spelled out in the operators' clever callsigns used specifically for this event. Most participants use FT8 and SSTV.
Meanwhile, CW operators in the Straight Key Century Club have just wrapped up another round of the monthly RandomGram exercise, decoding randomly generated letter and number combinations. The 24-hour event began on Thursday, June 19th.
Finally, there's Hamword, in which amateurs sharpen their skills using Winlink by playing a game based on the wildly popular mainstream word-based guessing game - Wordle. This is the third year participants will be transmitting five-letter words to the HAMWORD station. It's a lively, highly competitive activity in which results are posted on a leaderboard.
For technical requirements and rules, see the websites in the text version of this week's Newsline script.
Don't forget that hams just WANNA have FUN!