Licenced since 1987.
Main interest is DX - looking always for "new ones" on all bands, mainly in SSB, occasionally RTTY, BPSK 31 and CW.
Present scores (worked / awarded):
- DXCC Phone: 286 / 286,
- DXCC Mixed: 290 / 290,
- DXCC Digital: 235 / 233,
- DXCC Challenge: 1400 / 1360,
- IOTA: 507 / 501,
- holding WAZ SSB,
- holding WAS.
Sometimes difficult from downtown Vienna - hi.
(My QSL card does not show my home - hi. It is a famous sight of Vienna: 18th century Schoenbrunn Palace, the former Imperial Summer Residence).
Equipment:
Icom IC-7600,
Acom 1010 (legal limit - except club stations - is in Austria 400 W only).
Antennas:
Optibeam OBW 10-5 --> Moxon-type wire-yagi with two active elements per band : for 10,12,15,17 & 20 m,
Trap dipole : for 30, 40 & 80 m,
M2 6M3 --> 3 ele yagi : for 6 m.
QSL-policy:
* All my QSOs will be uploaded to LotW on the first day of the following month. This is my preferred way for QSL.
* I am not using eQSL as these services are neither accepted by ARRL/DXCC nor by RSGB/IOTA; however all my QSOs (AG) will be uploaded several times a year serving all OMs using eQSL.
* If I do need a QSL-card for a "new one" (DXCC, IOTA or band/mode) I will use either OQRS offered or send my card with SAE + IRC (or greenbacks if required) on the direct way by mail hoping to receive a card on the same way.
* Buro cards I do receive will be answered via the buro several times a year; direct cards with SAE + IRC or greenbacks will be answered on the direct way within a few days.
Hope to meet you on the bands !!
