OK2CQR

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

The Bill Windle QSO Party – 12th June, 2010

FOC is pleased to present the Bill Windle 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 Bill Windle QSO Party is not a contest but an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, a past Chairman of FOC […]

The dreams should come to be truth

I really love CW. When I was 11, I got SWL number and started to listen on HF. I was dreaming while listening that nice music and imagined how amazing could be to understand what they are sending.

TC07DX AS-115 Suluada Island

Group of OK radioamateurs Pavel TA2ZAF (OK1MU), Vláďa OK1CW, Franta OK1DF, Zdenek OK1FIA, Slávek OK1TN, Zdeno OK2ZW a Honza OK2ZAW under the special call TC07DX are going to activate Turkey Island Suluada AS-115 in Mediterranean Sea between 15.5. and 19.5.2010. We will use two stations CW/SSB and some few hours of operation is planned for […]

New PZK award – 80 YEARS OF PZK

In 2010 PZK (Polish Radio Amateur Association) celebrates 80th anniversary of establishment and presents new award – 80 years of PZK. More details and rules are available here: http://awards.pzk.org.pl/html/80_Lat_Regulamin.htm

5N/LZ1QK has a new call

Nick has been active for long time as 5N/LZ1QK, unfortunately he didn’t have valid amateur radio licence for Nigeria and QSOs will not count for DXCC credit. But now Nick, LZ1QK has a new call – 5N3WQK which is valid. He is on the air almost every day, especially on 17m. QSL via LZ1CL.

Huge eruption on the back side of the sun

From CWOPS list (posted by Mike, W0YR): Yesterday, there was a huge eruption on the back side of the sun. Spaceweather.com estimates that the mass coronal ejection was of a magnitude of at least a billion tons. The attached movie shows the magnitude of this occurance. Notice, this is not an animation. It is a […]

K5D potvrzeno via LoTW

Dneska ráno CQRLOG stáhl data z LoTW a objevilo se toto: New QSOs confirmed by LoTW: 2009-02-25 K5D 80 CW 2009-02-25 K5D 40 CW 2009-02-23 K5D 30 CW 2009-02-14 K5D 20 CW —————————– Total: 4 new QSOs Skvělé! Už se těším na papírové.