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DL1LRI Gerald Winker Am Zollamt 38 04838 Jesewitz OT Gordemitz, Germany Lookups:   622 Ham Member
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QRZ Record: 1591774 Login to manage/edit Lookups: 622 (622) Mailing Label... QRZ Admin: DL1LRI Last Update: 2009-11-22 11:03:14 Class: A Latitude: 51.415455 (51° 24' 55'' N) Longitude: 12.544713 (12° 32' 40'' E) Grid Square: JO61gj Previous: Y35XM ITU Zone: 28 CQ Zone: 14 Born: 1954 QSL Info: VIA BUREAU QSL by Mail?: No (e.g. Will this ham QSL by Postal Mail?) QSL by eQSL?: No (e.g. Will this ham QSL with eQSL?) Uses LOTW?: No (e.g. Does this ham use ARRL's LOTW ?) Admin For: (1) DL1LRI

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DOK S36

My dear QSO- partners all over the world,

I thank you for our QSO. I enjoyed it and I hope you too. The final courtesy of the QSO is the QSL card. Therefore please send your QSL card via the bureau. I am not fond of eqsl and LoTW.

My name is Gerald Winker. I was born in Leipzig 1954.

I have been interested in radio since the end of the sixties. I started with broadcast DX- ing, i.e. listening to shortwave broadcast stations and finally got confirmed 140 countries by QSL cards.

Later I joined the amateur radio club DM3GM (DM0LMM) at the "Marienplatz" in Leipzig, City center. I was put in a classroom and learned CW together with other “Kameraden”. Finally in January 1972 I passed the SWL exams and became DM-6291/M. Just one year later I was fortunate enough and passed the exams for the amateur radio license, 2nd class and became DM3XGM in spring 1973. During these days I was an apprentice, later a student and had plenty of time for amateur radio. I was operator of the DM- special stations DM0LMM during the Leipzig Fair and DM25M and DM30M on occasion of the East- German state jubilees. With the beginning of 1980 the east German radio amateurs lost their beloved DM call sign for political reasons and so I got Y35XM. With the beginning of the eighties I almost stopped my activities as a radio amateur and concentrated on my family and my job. I am a machine construction design engineer by profession and in charge of sales at different companies since 1983.

In the year 1992 I received the German unified call sign DL1LRI.

Finally in 2006 I rediscovered amateur radio for myself. I joined an amateur radio club station In Jesewitz (DL0SAX, DOK S 36), where I have been living since 1997 and which is 16 km Northeast of Leipzig.

A new transceiver (TS 2000) was quickly bought, luckily I got a 2nd hand GAP TITAN DX antenna and I was on the air again after more than 20 years. In the meantime an AMERITRON (3 tubes) completes my rig.

I still have difficulties in CW but I hope to improve it soon.

Looking forward meeting you on the air, I remain

With best 73s and good DX

Gerald, DL1LRI