Holger Kinzel DK8KW (+ many more calls!) is a very active German ham who many years ago accompanied me to one of the B-VARC Saturday morning breakfasts. Holger (AKA "Geri") obtains licenses in many countries, as one of his many sidelines in the hobby. QRZ.com lists 57 in his name, and he may have had others now expired. He and several other German hams including his daughter Anina use my home address in Missouri City for that purpose. I did verify with FCC that doing such was legal before agreeing to that. Wherever available he incorporates "KW" in the call. His USA call is W1KW. (It surprised me that was available in the vanity call program!) Geri is a drilling engineer retired from oilfield service company Weatherford. (I met him nearly 40 years ago in their booth at Houston's Offshore Technology Conference.) After retiring he earned his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from a German University. His dissertation had to do with safety aspects in the industry, including an analysis of the 2010 "Macondo" blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. PS: Geri also plays a 5-string fiddle in a German Irish band . . . 73 de Irv KK5QQ In a message dated 1/25/2022 4:12:55 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Hello Irv, I have recently purchased a Chinese made very small QRP-transceivers: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234226699655. Of course it is not comparable with my KX3 from Elecraft but it is a lot smaller and, with the built-in battery I can take it along with me almost any time. It can do SSB but I have decided to operate CW only. I had some QSOs from inside the house with a 3ft long antenna only, on 40m. It’s a fun little radio. I well remember when I had my Mizuho 14 with me to Perth/Australia, where I had the callsign VK6BKW, and I worked my late father DL6PE on 20m in CW, using only a dipole. QRP is not always easy but it can be challenging. Other than that I still operate the geostationary satellite QO-100, which unfortunately can not be accessed from the US. I do have Amateur Television (ATV) receiving and transmitting capabilities added to my station and, with a 6ft dish in my garden I can easily reach the satellite (pictures see www.qrz.com under DK8KW). The German Antarctica Georg-von-Neumeyer station has started to transmit ATV now and yesterday I received them for the first time. I also had a few SSB and CW QSOs with them. They plan to do visual school contacts, where the students can ask the crew questions, very similar to what the ISS-crew is doing. I listened to the German Astronaut Matthias Maurer a few times, who holds the US Callsign KI5KFH when he talked to German schools. Reception is easy, even with a hand held radio. Matthias obviously used the NASA-address in Houston as his mailing address (2101 NASA Parkway, Mailcode CB (EJA), Houston, TX 77058, the same way Anina and I have our callsigns registered at your address). Please pass my best 73 to Jane! Geri, DK8KW, W1KW … Dr. Holger Kinzel Doktor-Ingenieur, Master of Mediation Bürgerhausstr. 7 31226 Peine/Germany +49 172 54 66 211 [email protected]
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