Archiv 2008
**NEWS**
Dec 23rd 2008
Merry Christmas and happy new year 2009 for everyone wishes OK2KOS crew.
Arno OK2OU is celebrating his 86th birthday. The oldest ham in Ostrava still likes ham radio.
Congratulations and good health for next years !!
Arno OK2OU is sitting in the right.
Some other pics from ham meeting in restaurant Esko will be soon..
Dec 2nd 2008
New world record in CQ WW CW Contest
in multi multi QRP has been estabilished !!
Its holder is Radioclub of Jara da Cimrman (OL1JDC OK5JDC)
now OK2RRR in Ostrava - Czech Republic.
Members of OK2KOS participated in this record as well.
More here.
in multi multi QRP has been estabilished !!
Its holder is Radioclub of Jara da Cimrman (OL1JDC OK5JDC)
now OK2RRR in Ostrava - Czech Republic.
Members of OK2KOS participated in this record as well.
More here.
Oct.3rd 2008
See you in IARU Reg.1 UHF contest. Callsign OK5K and band 432 MHz. QTH Ostrava 240 m ASL and locator JN99CT.
Sept.22 2008
New version ( 0.5.1 )of Linux CQRLOG (by Petr OK2CQR) has been issued.
You can download it on Sourceforge.net as usually..
This is the best log for Linux I ever seen.
Sept.21 2008
Is chance for VHF tropo next week?
More on William Hepburn's webpage.
New antennas for 144 and 432 MHz has been installed. Leo Sevcik with little help of OK2PMR, OK2HZ and OK2BMU fitted
21 el.antenna for 432 MHz and new 10el. DK7ZB antenna for 144 MHz. Both with new coaxial cables. We are ready for autumn contests.
Before OK Activity Day (September 2008):
Try to use new Google ham radio search engine CQoogle:
You can put link to your website if you can.
Did you know ...
... that it is 100 years since Harvard Radio Club estabilishment - the basis for the abbreviation HAM ?
I
bring short explanation for those who don't know what abbreviation HAM
means. It is an informal term for radioamateur. It is an
abbreviation of the three names of American radio pioneers,
who
have founded Harvard Radio Club in 1908. These gentlemen were:Albert Hyman
Bob Almy
Peggie Murray
No callsign system had existed in those times. Sending whole names was unserviceable. They shortened their names to two first letters: Hy-Al-Mu. After they had found out that Mexican ship "Hyalmo" had the same name, they used shorter HAM callsign since 1910.
You can find more details here.
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications made a public announcement that the domestic Table of Frequency Allocations and the Japanese Amateur Bandplan had been amended. Japanese amateurs are now allowed to operate following additional frequencies on 80/75 meters band; 3 599 to 3 612 kHz, 3 680 to 3 687 kHz, 3 702 to 3 716 kHz, 3 745 to 3 747 kHz and 3 754 to 3 770 kHz.
As the result, from April 28, 2008, JA amateurs will be on:
3
500 to 3 575 kHz
3 599 to 3 612 kHz
3 680 to 3 687 kHz
3 702 to 3 716 kHz
3 745 to 3 770 kHz
3 791 to 3 805 kHz
L.B.Cebik W4RNL- maybe the biggest antenna expert passed away last week. He published many articles in US ham journals. Everyone who ever did some experiments with antennas knows his website www.cebik.com. There is plenty of antenna information. W4RNL died in age of 68.
R.I.P.
Another DX expedition: YK9G Damascus Syria. Group of operators from Great Britain (G3SXW, G3TXF, G4BWP, G5LP and GM3YTS) is doing great job. They working only CW with excellent signals. Their website including log search is here.
Did you know ?
Quantity of US hams has been cut down for more than 31000 in last 5 years. There are currently 656680 licences.
(From QRZ.COM).
Other news:
Petrus ZS6GCM is going activate Marion Island. He will use ZS8T callsign on 160m to 10m bands. Traffic starts in end of April or start of May. Details are on his web.
Another african expedition to Rwanda 9X5R is on the air.
It was easily workable this morning on 80m CW. Details and on-line log are in their website.
Clipperton expedition is over and for most europeans it didn't bring much pleasure. Particularly in comparison with VP6DX expedition to Ducie Island.
DX expedition to Mauritania just started. It is workable even on 80m in early morning. On-line log is available.
Clipperton DX expedition TX5C is on the air now.
On-line log and other details are on their website.
Short report from The First Subregional Contest 2008 is here. On-line log OK5K is also refreshed.
OK2BMU's on-line log has been updated as well.
Repeater OK0AD located in our radioclub could be now initialized by CTCSS 88,5 Hz.
Vladimir OK2UWV did some neccessary settings for this improvement.
OK5K is taking part in the 1st.Subregional Contest 2008 on the 70cm band. Call us !!
Log search in OK5K contests logs. Details are here.
OK2KOS's QSL card from the 60's is for sale on Ebay.
This card is signed by Bruno OK2BMH (SK).
Some addons
to the last report by OK1BF are included.
A former club member Roman OK1BF (ex OK2URV) sent me an email with
information about himself and some photos. More
here.
Nobody likes news like this:
Our member Josef Navratil, OK2BTL died on Sunday 30th December 2007 after long desease.
Requestant in pace !
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