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Information about the area

Walzenhausen is a village with some 2200 citizens located in a small canton, in foreign countries very often named state. This canton is called Appenzell Ausserrhoden. It is a small canton in eastern Switzerland. Very famous for tourism, its Appenzell cheese, former production of brodery and more. Some 53'000 people live in this canton.

It is divided into 3 subareas, Hinterland, Mittelland and Vorderland, where Walzenhausen (the qth of HB9BFY) belongs to. Appenzell Ausserhoden, abreviated AR, is surrounded by another canton called St. Gallen. There is no real capitol city in AR, however Herisau in Vorderland and Trogen in Mitteland are like a capitol city, since there are the government institutions in these cities or more villages.

AR is just a one hour drive from Zuerich Airport, or a 2 1/2 hour drive from Munich.

Here are some pictures from the area.

Of course Peter the operator of HB9BFY likes also to travel, even with ham equipment. Sometimes he is on the air from his holiday house up in Berner Oberland in a village called Grindelwald. Or he is qrv with his portable rig from another place on the world.

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