Welcome…
Thank you for visiting. This page is listing radio-related projects and/or pieces of information I found useful and which I'd like to share.
Please see my hamqth.com-page for some personal information.
Projects
DMRid-contacts
A small python-script converting characters not being displayed properly. Also works as a helper for reducing to digital contact list to fit on older devices.
YFKTest (Contest-Logging) / Enhancements
YFKTest is a Perl-based super-easy and small Contest-Logging-software, written by Fabian Kurz. I use it on a regular basis on a Raspberry Pi 3.
I have done some smaller changes, and added some Contest-definitions:
- YOTA-Contest (for EU! For other continents, pse have a look into the file and adapt the EU to your continent!)
- Custom callinfo per contest
To use those, just add/replace the files to/in your yfktest-folder.
REG1TEST / 'by hand'
When I started doing a bit of contesting, I did use pen and paper. The worst part then started after the contest, bringing the log into the format wanted by the organizers. While cabrillo is somewhat easy to write 'by hand', REG1TEST is a bit more tricky. So I designed a small spreadsheet for logging and exporting.
The first sheet is used for the basic informations and the list of qsos, on the second sheet you can 'view' and export to the REG1TEST-Format. The resulting file will be placed in the same folder as the spreadsheet, with the same name, but different filename-extension.
Don't expect too much and let me know, if anything breaks :).
You'll need to enable Macros. The file is most compatible to LibreOffice. As of 2026, the export formats are
- REG1TEST / Edi
- ADIF
- SOTA-CSV V2
- Bayrischer Bergtag - like format
REG1TEST-Spreadsheet (v2026-06_A)
Bearing-Helper
With directional antennas and fixed mounted bearing disks on tripods 'north' never points to north (murphy's law, I guess). Usually you figure out the offset between Real-North and bearing-disk-'North' and calculate where you'd have to point to. More than once three calculations gave three different point-to-values – don't ask ;).
So here's a little calculation helper, consisting of two bearing disks, the outer meant to represents the bearing disk at the tripod, the inner meant to be the real bearings. Once set up (by rotating the two disks against each other) it's just looking for the bearing on the inner disk and reading the point-to-value from the outer disk.