Biography

Born in 1961, active as a radio amateur since 1976. I am living with my family near Munich, Bavaria, in the beautiful southern part of Germany.

I am the managing director of my own electronics company, producing LED illumination systems.

Main amateur interests are digital modes such as FT8, FT4, RTTY, PSK31, JT65 and FSK441 but also some CW and SSB.

My primary radio is a FLEXRADIO-5000 Software Defined TRX with an EXPERT 1K-FA linear
amplifier (1 kW) on short wave into a UltraBeam 3ele Dynamic Yagi from 40m - 6m as well as some full size dipoles for 80m and 40m on top of my roof.

For VHF/UHF I use a Kenwood TS-790S with a linear amp 400 watts and 2 x 11 ele yagi as well as some verticals for short range communication over repeaters. I am QRV in WSJT/JT65 on tropo and FSK441 for meteor scatter.

I am the builder and sysop of two repeaters in the Munich area with EchoLink connection. One is DB0EL-R on the TV Tower (Node #7385) and the other is DM0ZB-L in Munich-East (Node #7380).

Club Memberships:
German Amateur Radio Clob (DARC): DOK C18
American Radio Relay League (ARRL): #2000469047
European PSK Club (EPC): #1238


vy 73 de Rainer

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

FLEXRADIO Flex-5000A Software Defined TRX
Kenwood TS-570D
Kenwood TS-790E
EXPERT 1k-FA linear for HF (1 kW)
BEKO linear for VHF (400 W)
UltraBeam 3ele Dynamic Yagi 40m - 6m
Full size dipoles for 80m and 40m
2 x 11 ele yagi group for 144 MHz