Home / SR5W “Wanda” repeater / Morning coffee with FM
Coffee happens in the morning, roughly from 7:30 to 9:00
Before the working day starts, coffee is steaming on Wanda. Around 7:30 hams switch on their radios — in the kitchen, in the car, at the desk — and up to about 9:00 chat about everything: everyday life, what’s ahead at work, the commute and the weather. No fixed schedule: this isn’t a regular programme, just a morning get‑together of radio amateurs that simply happens. Mug in hand and to the mic.
Any ordinary 2 m radio will do — handheld, mobile or base. Coffee at the mic is welcome, but optional.
Enable the 127.3 Hz tone on transmit only (Tone, not TSQL). Everything about the repeater — the chimney in Kawęczyn, coverage, DMR — on the Wanda page.
Set your radio to 145.750 and catch the rhythm of the chat. After each over there’s a short pause — that’s your window.
Keep it short and friendly: SP5… good morning, may I join the coffee?
No one bites here, even at 7:30.
Just like at a shared table: everyone speaks in turn, and between overs we leave a second of silence for new voices.
Been on for coffee or want to be? Leave your callsign at the bottom of the page — let others know who they’ll hear in the morning.
Morning coffee is a conversation, not a contest. Most often about everyday stuff: who’s already on the road and who’s still over the first mug, what’s ahead at work, how the traffic is and the weather outside the window. The topic flows by itself — like at the kitchen table, only this kitchen is tens of kilometres across.
The activity is Mazovian in scope — Wanda transmits from an antenna 305 m above ground, on the chimney of the Kawęczyn heating plant — but it does happen that stations from other regions join us for coffee. Every voice is welcome, and new callsigns especially.
For a confirmed QSO on Wanda during the morning coffee you can receive a commemorative certificate.
On the certificate: an engraving of the chimney with Wanda, where radio waves turn into steam over a cup, the host’s signature, Piotr SQ5PIT, and the morning coffee seal.
See the certificate full sizeHosted by Piotr SQ5PIT, and at the microphones you’ll often find these gentlemen. On the air we know each other by voice — here are the faces.
SQ5PIT
Host of the morning coffee on Wanda. Piotr’s photo soon — for now the circle shows the coffee it all starts with.
SQ4MN
Marian
antenna builder
Former IT specialist and programmer, now an excellent antenna builder.
SQ5CBA
Filip
author of this site
Transmits from Stary Mokotów, most often via Wanda.
SP5MOR
Piotr
field telephones
A regular on Wanda and a collector of field telephones.
SP5VYS
Ryszard
Rysio
You’ll recognise him by his voice — and in the photo by the highlander hat.
SP5RZL
Adam
the pile‑up guy
Thousands of QSOs in award schemes — and in the morning just an ordinary coffee.
Want to be among them? Just add your name to the list at the bottom of the page.
Give your callsign and a few words: where you operate from, what time you usually turn the radio on, what you have with your coffee. Your entry will appear on the participants’ list.
The list is brewing…
Do you know a radio amateur who drives to work in the morning with a radio in the car? Send them the link — there’s always room for one more callsign over coffee.
Where Wanda transmits from, how far she can be heard, and who else you’ll meet on the air — all on the neighbouring pages.
