. . . . . some information about myself
" normal " life | 1951 born in Gmunden, UpperAustria, living in Traunkirchen |
1961-1969 school Gymnasium Gmunden | |
1970 - 1976 Technical University Vienna | |
1976 - 1979 Company Philips in Vienna, developing components for Video-Tape-Recorders (now history...) | |
1979 back to school as a teacher at HTL Braunau | |
1983 married to Ursula, five kids born between 1979 and 1994 and already four grandchildren | |
2018 retirement |
" radio " life | 1970 licensed as OE5JFL |
1981 first EME QSO (2m, 2Yagis) | |
1982 QRV 70cm EME with 5m dish | |
1983 70cm & 23cm with 8.5m dish | |
1984 tower and dish damaged | |
1985 temporary 3.3m dish at the home QTH | |
1987 QRV with 10m dish | |
1988 added 2m system to the dish | |
1991 extended dish to 11.2m diameter (dish was dismantled in 2019 and went to scrap) | |
1999/2000 EME tests with small antennas, continued in 2016 | |
2007/2008 23cm EME beacon project at the QRL | |
2010 extended 2.8m dish to 3m semi-offset dish in my home QTH, used for tropo and EME | |
2013 completed 7.3m offset dish for 23cm EME | |
2016/2017 radio astronomy: measuring pulsars | |
2020 temporary 2m tests with 4 x 10 element H/V YU7EF antennas |
ARRL - EME - CONTEST 1988 - 1997
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Starting in 1988, I concentrated my moonbounce activity on the ARRL- EME - Contest. With luck I could win this competition in the category |
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´Multiband - Single Operator´ |
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10 times in a row. |
Marathon
I did not spend all my free time in the radio shack, but do other crazy things as running Marathon. See the results of this struggle against myself and the distance of 42.195 km! But long time ago now..... ;-) ( At least I did not give up...)
YEAR TIME PLACE/RUNNERS COMMENT 1996 4:08:37 3561. of 4512 rain, snow, wind 1997 4:04:47 4298. of 5700 temp. good, wind 1998 3:42:16 3044. of 6632 perfect weather 1999 3:56:19 2584. of 6112 very hot, 30deg C ! 2000 3:45:17 3380. of 7745 not much training... 2001 3:27:44 1934. of 9921 (85. of 482 men age 50-55)
very well prepared, good weather