In this paper, free vortex fluctuations in barotropic quasi-equilibrium ocean model are studied. The results show that the forms of the solutions are wave packet and carrier frequency of wave package spreads westward. when only the west coast of the ocean is considered, the carrier frequency is continuous spectrum. However, when both east and west coasts of the ocean are taken into account, the carrier frequency is discrete spectrum. And both cases have the same characteristics: when carrier frequency is higher (period is shorter), the horizontal scale of wave packet is greater. For the excessive low-frequency fluctuations, then the quasi-equilibrium assumption will be no longer applied. The period of wave package carrier frequency in the model is about 26 d to 24 a. Because the friction is taken into account, the amplitude of wave packets decays exponentially with time and tends to 0. But the size of the coefficient of friction affects only the extent of wave packets decay without altering spatial structure. The solution of model tends to particular solution of forcing for atmospheric wind field. In the model, the nature of fluctuations is the quasi-equilibrium vortex wave, including quasi-geostrophic Rossby waves.