Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK

Ham Radio

I am a licensed radio amateur and currently active, mostly in Morse telegraphy, on the ham radio bands from longwave up to the microwaves.
I also take part in international High Speed Telegraphy competitions as a member of the German national team.

Information and activities

• Ham Bio - About me, ham biography, QSL information, club memberships, former callsigns, etc.
• Ultra High Speed Telegraphy: Currently leading the worldwide highscore lists in RufzXP and CW Freak.
• DM7A VHF-EHF contest group - One of Germany's leading VHF+ contest groups from Dresden (I used to be the 23cm OP 2003-2008)
• 136 kHz activities - station / antenna description, logbook, pictures (2001-2003)
• DJ1YFK online logbook - real time online logbook and statistics, from 1998 until now
• Virtual Junkbox - Small projects, code snippets, statistics, experiments, ranging from trivial to ridiculous. Last update: October 2011.

Amateur radio software projects

Morse Code

• LCWO - Learn CW Online - A web based CW trainer (launched in May 2008, constantly updated)
• qrq - a simple high speed CW trainer (for Linux, Unix, OS X and Windows, v0.3.0, released December 2011)
• ebook2cw - convert ebooks to morse MP3s/OGGs (Linux/OS X/Windows) (v0.8.1, released April 2011)
• ebook2cwgui - Graphical user interface for ebook2cw (Linux/OS X/Windows) (v0.1.0, released May 2011)
• cwbiff - eMail notifier with morse output (January 2011)

Logging

• YFKlog - a ham radio logbook for Linux/Unix (v0.3.5, released January 2008)
• YFKtest - a ham radio contest logger (v0.0.9, released June 2008)

Other projects

• dxcc - ARRL DXCC lookup utility (February 2008)
• QRZ.com/QRZ.ru lookup-plugin for Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird

A mailing list was set up for discussion, support and announcement of new releases of my programs.

Miscellaneous, Links

• Yaesu FT-890/FT-840 QRH problem - Drift due to faulty capacitor in the reference oscillator. How to fix it.
• Analysis of DX-Spots and logs in WRTC 2006 - Catching contest cheaters with statistics. (August 2006)
• Betriebsart CW - Morsen lebt! / Morse Code - Alive and Kicking! - Vortrag/Presentation, Ham Radio, Juni 2011
• Interactive VHF-UHF-SHF-EHF beacon list
• Linux Hamradio Applications Database
• HamQTH - Online Callbook by OK2CQR; a sane alternative to QRZ.com
• FOC: RBN - Windle Calc
• German translation of the WSJT-Manual (outdated, Version 2.0) (pdf, 700 kB)

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Last modified: Friday, 06-Jan-2012 21:14:05 CET