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