Biography

Welcome to my QRZCQ.

I live in the beautiful village of Hagen am Teutoburg Forest, in Osnabrücker Land, in northern Germany.
I was born in 1939 in Glatz in Silesia, in one of the most beautiful areas of what was then Germany.
I wrote on QRZ.COM how fate brought our family here in 1946.
Hagen, with a 500-year-old church in the middle, has been my new home for over 70 years and I love living in it.

In my garden I have two 18 meter high poles. I welded and built the masts myself in 1974. In between hangs an 80/40m full size dipole and a home made dipole for 1.5 to 30 MHz with a CG-3000 automatic tuner and balun in the middle.

In my shack in the basement there is a TRIO LINE 599 from 1972, still in operation. Every Saturday I'm on the band with her at 6:30 am on 3,688.5 kc in the Flieger-Funk round.
In the years from 1970 to 1989 I designed extensive circuit diagrams for brickworks on the drawing board. I already made sketches and drafts beforehand on the construction site and during meetings. Here all I had to do was draw, hour by hour. Often also Saturday and Sunday. On the side I mostly listened to 40m SSB and sometimes also CW. I've always been multitasking.

From 1990 I worked with CAT on the computer and it was the end of SSB and multitasking. As a reminder of the old days, which weren't always the best, I left everything as is.
Back: An FT-897 - RigExpert Standard - with an old PC under WIN7 for PSK31 and an IC-7300 with a notebook for FT-8

I've always had a thing for weak signals because they've always been interesting.

FT-8 is made for me. – Weak signals plus internet

While the PC is doing the QSO, I look under QRZ, QRZCQ etc. what the YL or the OM confesses from his life, how he introduces the country and the people - around the world. FT-8 is only complete with a nice website, that's how I see it.

Thanks for reading - Manfred DK5BK

What's with the yellow hat? This is my "Tannkosh hat"

More about me - airmobil, caravan, etc. at: https://www.dk5bk.dk5bk.de/

More about my QSL at: https://www.dk5bk.dk5bk.de/qsl-at-dk5bk