"I'll give up CW when I'm dead! MAYBE!" (Rick, KC8AON)
It was my first activation of this area. OKFF-1224 has located maybe 20km from our home but I’ve never been there before. It’s a beautiful place with a lot of trees and people. It took some time to find a hidden location where I could wire my antenna and put the rig. I don’t like […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
