Three advocates for the practice of CW have been honoured by CWOps for their contributions.

They are Mark Bosma, VK2KI, who created the weekly CW QRS Net more than five years ago. The net is an informal gathering of operators for a six-hour period with an emphasis on courtesy and established procedures. Mark also publishes and emails the weekly CQ QRS RagChew newsletter.

Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW, is being recognised for a number of projects that assist operators with CW, including Learn CW Online, CW Club RBN Spotter and the CWOps Awards Tool, which helps operators track the status of their awards. He is also the creator of EBOOKS2CW which converts e-books to CW audio files.

CWOps is also recognising Martin Kratoska, OK1RR, widely considered a pioneer in Morse Code teaching and founder of a website that covers a vast number of subjects on CW. The website was created in Czech only. A link can be found in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org.

Past winners of the CWOps award have included the K1USN Radio Club, creator of the weekly Slow Speed Test that allows newer operators to improve their skills in a friendly environment; Stephen C. Phillips, author of the free online Morse code trainer used by thousands of CW students and teachers and the Essex CW Club in the UK for its intensive teaching and CW bootcamps.