E-Mail: mail@fkurz.net - web: http://fkurz.net/

Picture above shows me operating at SP5ZCC/SN5Z during the IARU R1 CW Fieldday 2009.

QSL-Information: All my logs are on LOTW and eQSL (weekly upload). Paper QSLs via bureau (preferred) or direct.

Born 1983. First licensed (as DG9YFK) in November 1997 at the age of 14, upgrade to DJ1YFK and first CW QSOs in March 1998. Also holding an US extra class license (AD5UR).

Student of electrical engineering at the University of Technology in Dresden (JO61UA), during the semesters QRV from the campus club station DL0TUD/DM7A, home town Rheine (JO32QG). Currently living in Munich (JN58UC). Regular guest operator at DJ6ZM's super station (CQWW CW, WPX CW), see http://dj6zm.de/.

Operator at DM7A, one of the leading VHF-EHF contest groups in Europe: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/dm7a/

QRQ enthusiast; member of the German HST team, 6 times German champion of High Speed Telegraphy (between 2000 & 2009).

Developer of the Morse course and practice website, "Learn CW Online": http://lcwo.net/.

Member of: DARC (DOK S07 since 2005, 1997-2004 N16), HSC, VHSC, SHSC, RTC, AGCW-DL, FOC, WWYC, HACWG, LZCWC, SKCC, GDXF etc.

You might have heard me as (not quite complete):

PA/DJ1YFK/p (EU-038, 1999 and IOTA-Contest 2003) * IR3HST (HST-Championship in Pordenone 1999) * OZ/DJ1YFK/p (at OZ7HVI, EU-029) and 5P1ER (from Copenhagen -- TNX OZ1AA) * SM0/DJ1YFK/p (at SK0UX -- TNX SM0JHF) * SK9HQ (IARU-Contest 2000) * SK0TM (a few QSOs when visiting the Telemuseum, 2000) * DA0RTC (11-17th Dec 2000) * YR0HST (Special-Event-Call of the HST-Championship in Constanta 2001) * OY/DJ1YFK/p (Summer 2001) * TF/Dj1YFK/p (Summer 2001) * DA0HSC (50 Years of HSC, August (?) 2001) * 8Q7ZZ (Maldives DXpedition in 2002) * IK5/DJ1YFK/P (San Vivaldo, September 2002) * 9A/DJ1YFK/p (from 9A7P in Pazin, July 2003) * DL0HSC (HSC Contest February 2004) * YU0HST (HST Championship in Nis, September 2004) * DM1A (M/S WAE CW 2005 from DL0WW) * SP0WWYC, 3Z1LH, SP1/DJ1YFK (WWYC Meeting in Darlowko, Lighthouse POL003, August 2005). * DA0DD (800 years Dresden) * PP5WRTC, PP5/DJ1YFK and PT5V (WRTC, July 2006 Brazil) * 4O7WWYC (3rd WWYC Meeting in Serbia, August 2006) *  LZ5HST (5th IARU Region 1 HST Championship, Primorsko, Bulgaria, September 2006) * PI4ZI (PACC 2007, 2009 M/M) * DA0WWYC (4th WWYC Meeting Munich 2007) * SP75E, SP/DJ1YFK (SP-DX-Contest 2008 at SP5ZCC/SN5Z, CW Fieldday 2009)

I am QRV on all bands in CW only. Any speed from QRSS to QRQQ.

Proud owner and builder of Elecraft K2#5054.

Other Interests: Linux/Unix, programming (mostly Perl and C), foreign languages.