OE3CWJ
Amateur Radio Station
I have been licensed as OE7CWJ in 1978, today the favorite bands are still from 28MHz above with various rigs and antennas. My job entailed frequent travelling, however having much more time now being active from both home QTHs in Bad Voeslau/OE or Bratislava/OM. Today my schedule allows activities again like participation in VHF/UHF contests, VHF-DX, Digital Modes (FT8, FT4, APRS, D-Star) and Amateur Satellites. Despite holding my CEPT-1 license with power class C, with appropriate QRO equipment in the shack I am incurably attached to QRP on HF. Occasionally I enjoy taking some equipment on trips and hikes into the great outdoors.
This site will also deal with the history of VHF amateur radio. In the 1960s, only a few stations could be heard on VHF compared to shortwave and there were hardly any new commercial devices. In the beginning, it was also very difficult to obtain the components needed to build your own VHF radio and they were very expensive. Nevertheless, there was a lot of tinkering and experimentation. Last but not least, the economic upswing and the thirst for research of many radio amateurs made it possible to conquer this new world of VHF frequencies. Even back then, these OMs were already thinking about how to increase activity on these bands.
German language version:
Ein großer Teil meiner Seite wird sich mit der Geschichte des UKW Amateurfunks befassen. In den 1960-er Jahren waren im Vergleich zur Kurzwelle nur wenige Stationen auf UKW zu hören und es gab auch kaum kommerzielle Neugeräte. Anfangs war es auch sehr schwer, die für den UKW-Eigenbau benötigten Bauteile zu bekommen, bzw. waren diese sehr teuer. Dennoch wurde viel gebastelt und experimentiert. Nicht zuletzt machten es der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung und der Forschungsdrang vieler Funkamateure möglich, diese neue Welt der UKW-Frequenzen zu erobern. Diese OM`s machten sich schon damals Gedanken darüber, wie man die Aktivitäten auf diesen Bändern erhöhen könnte.
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