About me

Hi, my name is Petr, I live in Neratovice - 15 miles north-east of Praha, the capital city of Czech Republic.
Licenced since 1998 when I was 16 (SWL since 1993). I am active on all HF bands with TS-930SAT, multi band vertical antenna for 40-6m and sloper for 160/80m, mostly on CW, which is my favourite mode.
I'm member of  GACW, CAV, OKQRP,  CCT, CTC, SKCC, NAQCC, A1 CLUB, OKDXF, FISTS, A1-OP and CWops.
You can contact me via email petr (at) ok2cqr.com or jabber ok2cqr@jabbim.cz. If you want to know more about me, please visit this page.

You can look onto my on-line log or current DXCC, WAZ, ITU and IOTA statistic.

All QSLs 100% via buro and LoTW/eQSL.

If you are looking for CQRLOG for Linux, try this page.

Zen and the Art of Radiotelegraphy

Posted by ok2cqr on 20. January 2010 - 15:51 in

It is a book by Carlo IK0YGJ, that has just been translated into English. You can download it here: http://www.qsl.net/ik0ygj/enu/index.html

Carlo says:
This book is the result of several years of experience in amateur radiotelegraphy. It suggests, for the first time, a learning methodology based on an integrated and multidisciplinary approach designed to accompany the apprentice from the first steps in ham radio all the way to a world-class proficiency in telegraphy. The book introduces, ad-hoc tailored to amateur radio, techniques used successfully by competitive athletes, including extreme sports such as free diving, adapted to the difficult process of learning telegraphy.
More here: http://www.eham.net/forums/CW/10885

Very nice work Carlo! Thank you!

New PZK award - 80 YEARS OF PZK

Posted by ok2cqr on 15. January 2010 - 5:26 in


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


Winkeyer USB server 0.2.0 released (2010-01-09)

Posted by ok2cqr on 9. January 2010 - 23:06 in

I developed an UDP server allowing operation of the Winkey USB by K1EL with any Linux program with UDP keyer capability. It works in the same way as the popular cwdaemon. With Winkeyer USB server expands the useability of this excellent product to all Linux program with UDP keyer capability (TLF by PA0R etc.)

CQRLOG 0.9.1 released (2009-12-31)

Posted by ok2cqr on 31. December 2009 - 19:26 in

News:

  • storing grid columns width and position - fixed
  • propagation window shows wrong SSN number from NOAA - fixed

Download here.

My shack this evening

Posted by ok2cqr on 25. December 2009 - 17:31 in

'The Old man and the sea' in Morse

Posted by ok2cqr on 23. December 2009 - 20:34 in

I need more practice in plain text copying. About a year ago I converted a few Czech textbooks to Morse and started to listen to it while driving a car or at evening when my wife is watching TV.

CQRLOG 0.9.0 released (2009-12-20)

Posted by ok2cqr on 20. December 2009 - 21:29 in

News:

  • program compiled in recent Lazarus version
  • propagation indices added
  • user definable digital modes added (in Preferences -> Modes tab)
  • program shows new QSOs confirmed by LoTW after import
  • SQL console added (with export to CSV and HMTL), now you can do with QSOs whatever you want
  • callsign attachments - you can add almost everything corrensponding to the call in log to a directory named by call and show it from logging program. You can display any picture, text or even PDF file related to the callsign
  • QSL attachments - an image of the QSL card can be added and displayed
  • QSL sent and QSL received date added
  • 33CM band support added
  • time checking function for ADIF tags <TIME_ON> <TIME_OFF> fixed
  • loading StopBits and Databits parameters didn't work - fixed

Download here.

5N/LZ1QK has a new call

Posted by ok2cqr on 17. December 2009 - 6:30 in

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

Posted by ok2cqr on 5. December 2009 - 19:42 in

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 time-lapse video of the real thing. The sun's rotation will soon bring the region where the explosion occurred around towards Earth.

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