OK2CQR

"I'll give up CW when I'm dead! MAYBE!" (Rick, KC8AON)

FOCUS 25th Anniversary QSO Party

To celebrate 25 years of the FOC’s in-house magazine FOCUS, the 100th edition of which will be published on 1 January 2015, FOC members will be calling “CQ FOC25.”  Points will be earned, by members and non-members, for working FOC officers, FOCUS editors and any FOC members.  A certificate will be issued to everyone who achieves […]

FOC QSO Party – 13 September 2014

FOC is pleased to present the FOC QSO Party. This event is open to all radio amateurs world-wide. Its aim is to encourage the use of, and excellence in, Morse code. The FOC QSO Party is not a contest but an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, a past Chairman of FOC who was very keen […]

Interview with me on Linux in the Ham Shack

In this episode, we have a great interview with Linux software developer and ham radio enthusiast from the Czeck Republic, Petr Hlozek – OK2CQR. He is the author of CQRlog and HamQTH.com. Unfortunately, Petr’s audio was a little hot and nothing we could do made it better. Our sincerest apologies. Sound problems aside, we hope […]

CQRLOG 1.7.4 released

I wanted to release new version after 17th of April but ARRL has changed addresses and autorization to LoTW. This is very important feature and I decided to release new version sooner. Changelog is quite long and includes a few nice features. Packages on Lauchpad are already created, CQRLOG should be available in distribution updates […]

CQRLOG 1.7.2 released!

News: after hitting ESC in any window opened from NewQSO, cursor will be returned to callsign edit field frequency in New QSO and QSO list wondow is formated to 0.0000 added Help -> Keys and shortcut to menu in QSO window   RBN integration into GrayLine showed CW speed instead of signal strench – fixed […]

CQRLOG 1.7.1 released

It has been 14 days since the last release and we have new version again. There are a few bugs fixed and two new features added. This version is released so early because I hope it could get to new Ubuntu LTS. More in Download section. Launchpad is going to start building packages in about […]

CQRLOG 1.5.7 released

News: Enter key in Filter window will activate the filter blank locator field in Group edit clears locator field ADIF export didn’t contain DXCC field with ADIF id of the country graline caused program crash after compile with recent FPC and Lazarus versions when the grid was in lowercase, the Big square statistic was broken […]

HamQTH.com celebrates two years anniversary

Today HamQTH.com celebrates two years anniversary with good health and growing number of users. What was the most important news last year? We moved to new and much faster server with 28 GB of RAM, 4x1TB disk connected to RAID 10. Forum has been added, now is not visited so often but hopefully, it will […]

First Class CW Operators’ Club 75thAnniversary On-Air Celebration

To commemorate our 75th anniversary in May FOC is holding a month-long on-air event featuring at least 45 special FOC-suffix calls.  These will include GB75FOC, a special anniversary call for our club station.  (GC4FOC will be used when operating from Wales, GN4FOC from Northern Ireland, GP4FOC from Guernsey, GS4FOC from Scotland, and GT4FOC from Isle of Man). […]

CQRLOG 1.5.2 released!

News: added CTRL+W hotkey to send spots to dxcluster DX cluster shows also country name next to the spot (must be enabled in Prefereces) international characters in New QSO window should work again DX spots with freq eqauls to the start of the band (21.000, 14.000 etc., usually notes) are ignored HamQTH added to dx […]