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Amateur Radio

What is Amateur Radio?

Here is an extract from >The ARRL Handbook 2000< (1999 ARRL; ISBN 0-87259-183-2):

People who pursue the hobby of using a personal radio station to communicate, purely for non-commercial purposes, with other radio hobbyists call it ham radio or Amateur Radio. They call themselves Amateur Radio operators, ham radio operators or just plain "hams".
You already know a little about the hobby - hams communicate with other hams, around the block, on a distant continent - or from an orbiting space station! Some talk via computers, others prefer to use regular voice communications and still others enjoy using one of the oldest forms of radio communication - Morse code. Some hams help save people's lives by handling emergency communications following a natural disaster or other emergency. Some become close friends with the people they talk to on the other side of the globe - then make it a point to meet one or more of them in person. Some can take a bag full of electrical parts and turn it into a station accessory that improves their station's reception of distant radio signals.

Are you interested now? So visit the website of the DARC, perhaps you'll find there a link to your national club.

Ham radio and me

There is a activitygroup called FunkAG (radio group) in my old school that provides ham radio and education to amateur radio operator. The leader of this group is Werner, DK9ZF; he has been my headmaster in the first two years of my present in this school. He showed us around in the radio shack of the group and I have been seized by the radiobacillus, hi. I have always been interested in technology and science, so I became member of the FunkAG.
I learned and practiced for 3 "hard" years and operated with the practice callsign DN2FWS, part of the schoolstation DLØGNX. At the end of 1999 I prepared for the exam. At this moment I already could read and wright Morse code, because of telegraphy I wanted to chuck up ham radio, but then it was only fun! I practiced with the cassette-course of the DARC and with the program CWT-18.0 on my computer. The rest I learned by myself with the books Amateurfunklehrgang (Amateur Radio-Course) written by Eckart K. W. Moltrecht, DJ4UF, and with the question collection of the german RegTP (like FCC in the USA).
On March 18th 2000 I had my exam and how you can see I passed it and on the March 22nd I got my callsign and license for DF6FR.
My main interest is telegraphy (CW), homebrewing of accessories (see also column Homebrew) as well as operation with low power (QRP). The first contact with homebrew was in the radio group of my school. We build an AF-PowerAmplifier, a morsetonegenerator, a magnetic-loop-antenna and a direct convertion receiver for 80m (Harald Kunert, DF9YM; CQ-DL 7/86 p.392). My favorite band is with no doubt 30m, sometimes I work on 40m, 20m and 80m, too.

I am member of DARC, AGCW-DL, as QRPer and homebrewer of DL-QRP-AG and G-QRP Club and also of the CTC (Croatian Telegraphy Club).

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