No E-QSL, please!! and - do send the new IRC only. The old small ones are still welcome. Thank you. Postal rates from Germany to outside European Community for direct QSL DX 2 US-$.

Please remind: My QTH is within the borders of the city of Bielefeld. It belongs to Bielefeld, not to any other village or town!

WABI = Worked all Bielefeld. All of my QSOs in CW or digital mode dount for our WABI-Award. This award is on of the oldest awards in Germany and very rare. For application you must do as follows:

DL-Stations need 3 points
DL-Stations need 5 points
DL-Stations need 10 points.
Also SWL-stations can apply. Further information under http://www.darc.de/distrikte/n/01/das-wabi-diplom/ (in German).

I am not QSL-manager for DF8XC! So I shall not answer any cards.

I am QSL-manager for 7P8AA since our friend Fritz Bergner, DL7RO, had passed away some years ago.

Ham preferences are DXpeditions and Contests, whenever it is possible. Other hobbies are reading books with many real characters in them. Listening any kind of Baroque Music (Rameau, Lully, Purcell, Bach, Telemann, Handel, Vivaldi, and all the numerous composers of those days), and the music of the early 15th until 17th century. For me J.S.Bach embodies the universe of music. I like all the good things defining quality of life : smoking my pipes, having some good wine, and some other hedonistic things, and knowing the switch for TV off etc etc. What more does a normal human being need? O yes, there is something else: Amateur Radio!

Oh, by the way, the google map on the right shows my QTH as if it belonged to Bad Salzuflen. But it does not! That town is 15 km away from me. I am citizen of Bielefeld, living in BI-Hillegossen, which is a bit outside the center of our city. If you go on the motorway A2 you will see my antenna looking over the protection wall they put there against the noise of the motorway.

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