Ham Radio Station OE1WWL

Wolfgang Wagner
QTH: 1180 Vienna, Austria (Wien-Währing), Locator JN88EF

Reservoir with Danube power plant in Vienna

© 2004 Verbund

My electricity supplier generates my electricity from 99.88% hydropower. An example is its Danube power plant with reservoir in Vienna.

Antennas in the foreground, the Vienna Woods in the background

Antennas in the foreground, the Vienna Woods in the background

After a hy-gain thunderbird TH3-MK3 (1980-2008) and a hy-gain patriot AV-620 (2011-2022) my new (2022) Cushcraft R6000 vertical, and an old Fritzel W3-2000 multiband inverted Vee dipole look at the Vienna Woods.

I have used the following transceivers:
an Icom IC-7410 in Vienna,
an Icom IC-7300 as OE4WWL,
an Icom IC-703 (10 W, in contests 5 W) with a microHam digi keyer as 9V1OE (2008-2019) and for suitcase dxpeditions,
a dual bander IC-T70E for portable operations.

I use a Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO₄) battery for portable operations and some contests.

I confirm all new contacts with a QSL card via the bureau.
I upload all eQSL cards weekly (and confirm old eQSLs manually).
Of course I answer direct cards directly.

For the digital modes FT4, FT8, MSK144, JT9 and JT65 I prefer WSJT-X written by J. Taylor K1JT, S.J. Franke K9AN et al.
In 2016 (updated in March 2024) I wrote a program jtxdupes in C to show duplicate call signs. And new call signs in red.

In 2018 I modified my program - for their new version FT8 2.0 with 77 bits - which even works with special call signs, like a thousand years of Zeil am Main:



092615 -11  0.1 1297 ~  CQ DF1000ZEIL                           

181003_092630  Transmitting 7.078 MHz  FT8:   OE4WWL                  

092645 -10  0.1 1298 ~  OE4WWL  -11                 

181003_092700  Transmitting 7.078 MHz  FT8:   OE4WWL R-10             

092715  -6  0.1 1297 ~   DF1000ZEIL RRR                 

181003_092730  Transmitting 7.078 MHz  FT8:  DF1000ZEIL  73               

092745  -7  0.1 1297 ~   DF1000ZEIL 73                  

181003_092800  Transmitting 7.078 MHz  FT8:  40 W INV L TU         

092815  -8  0.1 1297 ~  CQ DF1000ZEIL

I tried JS8 (75 bits) with the program JS8Call written by J. Sherer KN4CRD. I also tried Vara Chat (VarAC), SIM31 and many legacy digital modes.
Meanwhile I also used JTDX and MSHV. And sometimes still fldigi.

During phone contests I appreciate the N1MM Logger+ by Tom. It sends stored wave files and controls my IC-7410 via a USB link. The so called "Simple Voicing" protects even better the sleep of my family by automatically calling CQ and sending serial numbers and spelling call signs, including my own.

Vacation and special call signs:
OE5WWL	1970-
OE5WWL/DL	1972
F0ACT/P	1972
OE5WWL/AM	1972
OE50/5WWL	1976
OK8ABT/P	1979
OE25/1WWL/3	1980
OE1WWL/W3	1980
OE1WWL/I3	1982
G0/OE5WWL/A	1987, EU-005 England
OE1WWL/SV8	1989, EU-067 Paros
HA/OE1WWL/P	1990
SV8/OE1WWL/P	1992, EU-052 Zakynthos
OEM1WWL	1996
OE75WWL	2001
OE4WWL	2002-
9M2/OE1WWL	2004, AS-073 Lang Tengah
OE50WWL	2005
SV9/OE1WWL/P	2005, EU-015 Crete
TA4/OE1WWL	2005
9V1OE	2008, AS-019 Singapore
9M2/OE1WWL	2008, AS-046 Tioman
OE2008WWL	2008
ID9/OE1WWL	2009, EU-017 Stromboli
9V1OE/P	2010, AS-019 Sentosa
9M2/OE1WWL	2010, AS-058 Langkawi
SM0/OE1WWL	2014
OE1970WWL	2020
OE0WWL	2020

During summer time you can hear me as OE4WWL from the Burgenland.

Sometimes still as OE5WWL from Upper Austria (last activation in the year 2020).

Member of the ÖVSV, the national amateur radio society. My ADL is 500.

© 2024 Wolfgang Wagner [email protected]

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