History of Radio club OK1KQJ
The roots are in early 60th when several people created a group interested in simple radio designs and SW listening, with support from SVA Holysov (truck & bus factory). Some of members succeeded in getting own HAM license. In 1974 they got an own room and started rebuild of it; they up up first wire antennas. In 1975 the radio club received own license OK1KQJ. Since then the club become active on HF and VHF, antenna building and contesting. Good example is a 23m high vertical antenna built from juice cans above ground net consisting of 120 radials that performed very well on 80 mtrs.
In 1978 the nearby
factory introduced new welding machines that created unacceptable level of
interference. There were 2 possibilities: to terminate the activity at all or
move the club to another location. After discussion with Airport Stankov (group
of people having airplanes as a hobby) a decision was taken to build a new club
building close to airport building - far enough from QRM sources. The project
started in 1979 with ambitious target (for that time): 6 element monobander
Yagies for 14, 21 and 28 MHz and 2 ele HB9CV for 7 MHz. The antennas were build
first, the house followed. People living in that era can imagine how difficult
was to purchase all the material (all antennas home made, no chance / money to
get commercial antennas)... Despite many problems we succeeded and in 1981
opened new QTH. The first transmission was from temporary building. The success
motivated the people to start building of our own house. The most difficult task
was getting the material, the club members did all the work on their own. The
house was finished in autumn 1981. Of course, there was still a lot to improve
but it was not a problem for group of enthusiasts. They invested thousands of
free time hours and not neglectable amount of money for the club... The club is
active till these days, despite the fact that some members left us already (SK
OK1BY, OK1IOP).
Milan OK1MR
History of OK1KQJ - milestones
1956 group of radio fans by Svazarm LIAZ Holύov
1974 Building of club room in Holysov - Tovαrnν ulice
1975 Assigned callsign OK1KQJ responsible operator OK1IMP, ops OK1AIP, OK1IOP, OK1AYP, OK1AZG, OK1VKX, OK1ICM, OK1BY, OK1DVB.
1976 First beam antennas: HB9CV for 14,21,28 and vertical 23m "juice cans", new members OK1DLE, OL3AXN (later OK1DXA), OL3AXS (later OK1DXS); transceiver MINIZET
1977 New member OK1IMR
1978 Purchased cars PV3S a UAZ69
1979 Begin of new QTH project at airport Stankov
1980 Building of towers and antennas
1981 Official opening of club in new location
1983 Building of club house - March till November
1984 Building of vertical and wire antennas
1985 First experiments with computers Sinclair ZX81
1986 Building of 1 kW power amplifier
1987 Obtain a special permission for 1kW output
1988 PA SS1000 1 kW in use
1989 Obtained radio Kenwood TS820 , Silent key OK1IOP
1990 1st club's computer Commodore C64 + floppy + printer
1991 New members OK1FJD, OK1HIR
1992 Radio club become independent (no more part of Svazarm organisation), assigned a contest call OL3A
1993 New vertical antennas, first PC 286 (tks OK1RR)
1994 Member callsigns changes: DXS-DX, ICM-CM, AYP-AY, IMR-MR
1995 2nd club's PC 386 first experiments with networking
1996 Digital modes
1997 Bought a new Kenwood TS570D transceiver
1998 Purchased PA LV1 , Silent key OK1BY
1999 Purchased PA R140, packet radio node project - OK0NAL
2000 Purchased transceiver Kenwood TS850SAT,2 new PC's (tks OK1FM)
2001 House rebuild: new room for multiplier station
2003 - Purchased transceiver YAESU FT-1000 MP