I got the virus when I was 12 years old, reading the novel „SOS at midnight". I soon became a
SWL with the call HE9HXM.
At the age of 17 years, I made the first licence test (without code), allowing me to operate on VHF. I never had a callsign, instead I kept on learning the code.
Half a year later, I tried the code test - and failed. It was neither the first nor the last test I failed in my life, but for sure the one that hurted most!
1975, when I was 18 years old, I finally passed the CW-test and got the call HB9BGV. I also
became a member of the Letzi-DX-Group (HB9CA) and we converted an old farmer house into a
shack. The next years were packed with my studies, so I barely found time to work on the bands.
It was about 1990, I just had my first computer log, when I decided to become a serious DXer. I made it into the Honor Roll in 1997 and in 2005 I finally made it to
the top of the Honor Roll Mixed and the top of the Honor Roll Phone. I also earned Honor Roll CW (only North Corea missing, just in case you need a suggestion for your next DXpedition) and Honor
Roll Digital. Here you find a list of
the awards I achieved.
You find me on the air in the pile ups and also during major contests as operator of HB9CA and HB7X.
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