Lovely sunny Monday afternoon after a week of rainy days with a cold wind. I need some time to relax and be in nature to recharge my mental batteries. The OKFF-1058 is very close to our home. Short but very nice trip.
We visited our parents in the Moravia region because my mom celebrated 65 years birthday. We spend almost a whole Friday preparing food and other stuff for the celebration that should be the next day. The GMA OL/ZL-112 is very close to my parents' home - about 2km on foot. The weather was beautiful, the sun was shining, almost no wind, a great time to make some more activation.
It's been three months since my last OKFF activation, the weather got better in the afternoon - a good time for a new activation. I've been on the OKFF a few years ago but only had an FT-817 with 5W and INVEE. As far as I remember, I barely made 44 QSOs that are needed for a valid activation.
This Maraton was great! Thanks to my family I could spend most of the weekend on the air. Unfortunately, no beams here, only multiband vertical at about 28m (84 feet), dipoles for 20/17/15m in the same height and sloper for 80/160m. Pictures are on https://www.hamqth.com/ok2cqr.
The first activity this year was on a sunny morning with my son Petr. I used KX3 with an EFHW antenna on a tree. Finally, I made 57 QSO. The weather was superb but after midday, it gets worse, even started snowing.
Propagation was quite good, I made QSO all over Europe.
Simple fast log entry - a tool to enter QSO from your SOTA/GMA/WWFF activations and create the ADIF file - everything just in your browser. It allows you to enter QSO very quickly using a simple syntax. Data are stored only in your browser. The website does not collect any data about you.
I was heavily inspired by the FLE by Bernd, DF3CB - https://df3cb.com/fle/. His application works only on Windows and Linux using Wine, but I needed something working on macOS and/or Android tablet. I didn't need all the features, just wanted to log QSO from my WFF/SOTA/GMA activation.
Source code is available on GitHub. The website is running on https://sfle.ok2cqr.com/.
After a few years, we have a new release. Suddenly, images from the hamqsl server stopped loading. The website is behind something like a firewall that checks the UserAgent string. I've set the UserAgent to Firefox and the program works again.
New files can be downloaded from https://github.com/ok2cqr/cqrprop. There are binaries and deb files for amd64 and binaries for arm64.
It took almost a year. I had to use sloper for 80M for all bands but finally, new antennas are installed. It took us almost 3 days to install everything including all cables etc. I could not do that without help from my daddy Franta, OK7WA, and my friend Zdeněk Faltýn who took most of the photos.
I had been using GP8 for a long time. Last year I had to take the vertical down because of roof repairs. It's in a good shape but sometimes after heavy rain, there is a problem with SWR on some bands. Maybe some of the traps are not completely waterproof after all the years. Last year in the middle of July I wrote an email to Waldek SP7GXP if he can send me the new vertical by post service. He wrote me, that they will have a new version of the GP7DX vertical in September and I have to wait.
After a few weeks, we have a new release! This version contains mostly bug fixes but there are also some new features. The most important fix is the workaround for ADIF import bug in the recent Free Pascal compiler. Debian packages for Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 20.10, and 21.04 are building on Launchapd. For Ubuntu 18.04 there is also i386 version, never Ubuntu version have only amd64 and arm64 packages. The complete changelog in available in Download section
