Biography

My name is Uwe Foege. I was born in 1947. My basic of practising radio communication was established in northwest Germany in Emden (JO33PI) . In 1960 I built my first receiver using a box for radio communication experiments. So I heard a radio amateur from my neighbourhood by coincidence and took up contact. He invited me and presented his own station to me. This adventure had impressed me deeply and hence being a boy of thirteen I was contaminated with the “highfrequency-bacillus”. Within a project at school I had been working on a superhet which one day really started to be functioning. In April 1965 I passed my examen and became a licensed amateur radio operator. I got the call sign DL8QL.
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After school I did an apprenticeship and finished the training as a graduated radio and television engineer. I passed further examinations and got the degree of master, too. Beeing on duty in the German Federal Armed Forces and working on electronic repairs I got to know about my own interests in teaching young people reasonable things. Thus I attended university and became a teacher.

At our comprehensive school in Herford (JO42IC). I founded the working group “Amateur Radio Communication”. The call sign of our school’s amateur radio station is DL0GFH. Within the workshop I try to inspire and introduce amateur radio communication to interested pupils doing ARDF and handicrafts. As I am also a licensed trainer (DN1QL) the pupils have been able to do radio communication training using the former call sign. For further information have a look at our workshop’s homepage (www.dl0gfh.de). This Homepage is ending in July 2012.

I am retiring in July 2012 and thereby ending my teaching career. Consequently I will continue to "dabble" in my hobby and dedicate more time to amateur radio. - I can well imagine that my skills and knowledge can be applied to training the younger generation in amateur radio.

I am mainly qrv on SSB, CW and digital-modes. When we go on holyday, I take the IC-703 along for operating in QRP.

Many thanks for reading this. I hope that we meet on-air again soon. My QSL cards are sent shure, either via the bureau or direct!

Bye, bye and 73 de

Uwe, DL8QL

Equipment

sw:
- Flex-5000A, Power-SDR (100 watts)
- Ic-703 (10 watts)
- dipole (2x13,5m)
- 3el-beam (FB33)
- automatic controlled antenna tuner (AT502)
- PC: iMac 27; Intel Core i5; 2,8 GHz; 4 GB RAM; ATI Radeon HD 5750; Windows 7, Home Premium OEM (64-Bit)
- Ham Radio Deluxe v. 5.24.0.36 and Digital Master 780

vhf/uhf:
- TR 9130, 25w (Kenwood)
- FT 790R, 1,5w (Yaesu)
- gp-antenna