Hello from Eike (Ike) in Dresden !

The picture shows my spiderbeam in the family garden about 15 km from my home QTH. Just started the summer season 2010, my seventh spiderbeam season. In early 2009 I changed to the "heavy duty" version. The beam has these 14 wire elements : 10m:4ele/12m:2ele/15m:3ele/17m:2ele/20m:3ele with a added 30m-rotary dipole The construction consists of a premanufactured center, 4 fiberglass tubes 5m long each from five one meter long pieces, abt 100m Copperweld wire and a lot of isolators and ropes. It's working great and has a super forward/back ratio without losses from traps, baluns etc. The beam is feeded with one coax cable. Weight about 10 kg. Mounted in the garden on a 13m crank tower.The heavy duty version withstand the last winter season without any problem. I made succesfull tests with the tower as a 80m-vertical together with a lot of 20m long radials on the ground and used the spiderbeam as a toploadTogether with a secondhand TS-850 + an old AL-80AX (700W) + Laptop + FUNKAMATEUR-ONE-USB-Interface it makes a lot of fun to work DX in CW, SSB and digital modes. The last success were QSOs on 80m CW+SSB with K5D (#DXCC 329)und K4M on 30m CW (#DXCC 330). In the meantime I got the DXCC-160m mostly worked with this cranktower+10m army whip+a half FD4 as L-antenna+radials and a K9AY receiving antenna and the DXCC-SAT for my activities over AO-7, AO-10, AO-13, AO-40 and other satellites in the late 80s and the early 90s. At home I'm working with an Elecraft K3 (#3061) together with a ACOM-1010 (500W) and a hygain AV-640 vertical (40m till 6m).
On Dec 15th 2009 I got the Honor Roll labels from the ARRL-DXCC-Desk, the plaque arrived in february 2010 and we celebrated my 50-years-anniversary of amateur radio on March 7th 2010 at the clubstation DL0TUD with a few bottles of Radeberger beer.

Hope to meet you on any band in any mode ! 73s de Eike (Ike), DM3ML

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A treasure of Dresden : Kronentor of the Zwinger in the centre of our city

The famous Frauenkirche in the centre of Dresden at the Neumarkt. Built by George Baehr between 1726 and 1743 and completly destroyed by the bombing of Dresden in World War II on Feb 13th 1945.
The reconstruction based on the historical state of the art started in 1994 and was finished in October 2005.
The Frauenkirche is one of the most beautiful churches wordlwide and is visited each day by thousands of tourists.

My QSL shows a actual picture of the historical site of Dresden viewed over the Elbe river at night (Brühlsche Terrasse,Schloss, Hofkirche, Semperoper)