I am 69 years old and living in a little town in the north-west part of Germany near the Dutch border(JO31OV).I am married since 1970 and have two children and two grandsons and one granddaughter. In the amateur-radio I am activ since 1999. My amateur-working conditions are: Kenwood TS480SAT,Icom 706 MK II G, CG-3000, Alinco DR 605 and Siemens C5 to work in the radio amateur bands. Also I am receiving the signals from the weather satellites NOAA,making the images therefrom and implement it to the paket radio in the part "weather". My antennas are : Inverted L-Antenna(10 m vertical and 30 m horizontal) in combination with the automatic antenna tuner CG3000 , Vertikal WG1 8,85 m for the shortwave, 2 Element Yagi FB23 for 10m,15m and 20 m, Diamond X 50N for 2m and 70 cm and Turnstile for the weathersatellites. I am member of the german amateur radio club DARC and chairman(OVV) from the DOK N 03.

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