Ham Radio

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

Information and activities

• DJ1YFK listing and bio at QRZ.com
• DM7A VHF-EHF contest group - One of Germany's leading VHF+ contest groups. I am the main operator on 23cm.
• 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: February 2009.

My ham radio software

• 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)
• qrq - a simple high speed CW trainer for Linux/Unix (v0.1.4, released June 2008)
• ebook2cw - convert ebooks to morse MP3s (Linux/Windows) (v0.7.0, released July 2008)
• dxcc - ARRL DXCC lookup utility (February 2008)
• cwbiff - eMail notifier with morse output (December 2007)
• QRZ.com/QRZ.ru lookup-plugin for Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird
• LCWO - Learn CW Online - A web based CW trainer (launched in May 2008)

Upon popular request, 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)
• Interactive VHF-UHF-SHF-EHF beacon list
• Linux Hamradio Applications Database
• "Operating Practice" - a Must Read guide to proper behaviour on the Amateur Radio bands by Mark, ON4WW
• German translation of the WSJT-Manual (outdated, Version 2.0) (pdf, 700 kB)

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Last modified: Friday, 27-Mar-2009 21:23:20 CET