Biography

Hopefully, you are looking me up because you hear / see me on the air! Almost every time you hear DB6LL/p, I'm qrv from my campsite in the small town of Barum in Lower Saxony (locator: JO53ei).

Operator:

Please call me by my nickname Ham. I was born in 1961, licenced since 1976. I have made a radio break from 1981 till the beginning of 2012. Since 1987 I live in Pinneberg, near the capital city of Hamburg.

I'm married with three children. Since June 2021 I am a retired police officer. Before my occupation I made a technical study. On my work I had a lot to do with computers. I can handle measuring instruments and I know where a soldering iron gets hot. I am very curious and always want to understand how the things I use work.

SSB and CW do not belong to my preferences, with very rare exceptions I am not on air in these modes. I prefer the digital modes.

Because the digital modes are low-power operating modes, I will transmit with a maximum power of 50 watts. I use and have no aditional amplifier.
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If I answer your CQ-call in FT8, FT4, JT65, JT9, ... please do not forget to send a "RRR" or , "RR73" otherwise our QSO is invalid. It is simple: No "RRR" or no "RR73", no QSL-Card.

And please, please do not be so rude and finish our QSO without 73! So much time you should have for our QSO.

Note, tip: If you use JTAlert from Laurie, VK3AMA, please click on "Receiving Text Messages" in the settings (Web Services). So you can receive text messages from other JTAlert-users (for example, from me :-) ).

We already had a contact? Please feel free to call me again. Maybe you have a new antenna, maybe the current conditions are different. There is always a reason for a new qso :-)

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QSL-Cards:

I do not collect QSL cards anymore. But if you send me your QSL card, I would be happy to send you my QSL card.

My QSL card shows in the background the island of Heligoland, a small archipelago in the North Sea (IOTA-ID EU-127, rare locator JO34we). On the island of Heligoland there is a mountain named Pinneberg, such as the name of my hometown - and I'm a big fan of the island. The photo was taken from the summit of the hill (61.3 meters above sea level).
At the bottom of the qsl card you can see the skyline from Hamburg, a view over the Binnenalster. The Inner Alster Lake is one of two artificial lakes within the city limits of Hamburg.

Don’t bother me with IRC, CRI or money. If you send me some, you’ll get it back in an envelope along with my qsl-card. Please send me only a self addressed envelope (S.A.E. without stamp!)

Hope to meet you on the frequency.

Ham

Equipment

Equipment right now at the campsite:

- HF base station Yaesu FTDX10
- noiseless 20 amp switching power supply
- TinyGate Interface for the digital modes
- notebook IBM / Lenovo W520 (15.6", intel i7, 16 GB RAM, SSD, windows 7 64bit)
- notebook HP EliteBook 2760p (12.1", intel i5, 8 GB RAM, SSD, windows 7 64bit)
- HRD Logbook, JTDX and WSJT-X, JTAlert
- WLAN access point with internet via LTE for the laptops, the smartphones and always an exact time
- 7,70 meter long vertical antenna with an Alinco automatic antenna tuner
- shorten Kelemen dipol DPK-60 for 60m
- λ/2 vertical for 10m
- an end-fed dipol for 15 meter.