Biography

Welcome to my site on qrzcq.com!

Here's just a brief ham bio of myself:

1974 Starting as a broadcast listener
1975 First SWL call DL-15367 awarded by ISWL
1976 Resuming SWL activity as DL-O05/1616978
1996 German license earned, c/s DB1OMA
1997 US Technician license earned, c/s KL0JW
2008 US General license earned, c/s KL0JW
2010 German callsign changed to DJ0JB
2015 US vanity callsign granted, c/s KL0JB

Member of: DARC, DIG (# 1863), DSW (# 204MT), FCF, TRC (# 071), COTA-Team Germany (# 157) and WCAG (# 197)

Contacts made from my home QTH automatically count for Blumenau Castle (WCA DL-00461 - COTA-DL NSB-016).

Participation in contests:
DE0BTW - RSGB IOTA Contest 1997, SWL 24 Hour SSB - Position 21, Score 7,909
DB1OMA - IARU Region I VHF Contest 1997 - Position 700, Score 1,244

Awards:
Genuine Wooden Hammer (Echter Holzhammer) (G22) #383
555 Sarajevo Award - APRIL 15, 2017
COTA Activator 5 - #050 - NOVEMBER 14, 2017
COTA Activator 10 - #025 - MARCH 2, 2018

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Baofeng UV5R and telescope antenna Nagoya NA-773 for V/UHF
Icom IC-271H and HB9CV indoor for VHF
Yaesu FT-7200 and HB9CV indoor for UHF
Alinco DX-70 and G5RV for HF