Ham Bio of DJ1YFK

Operating at SP5ZCC/SN5Z during the
IARU R1 CW Fieldday 2009.

QSL-Information: All my logs are on LOTW and eQSL (monthly upload). Paper QSLs via bureau.

Born 1983. First licensed (as DG9YFK) in November 1997 at the age of 14, upgrade to DJ1YFK and first CW QSOs in March 1998. Also holding an US extra class license (AD5UR).

Home town Rheine, JO32QG, from where I mainly operated between 1997 and 2003.

Spent five years (2003-2008) studying electrical engineering at the Dresden University of Technology, often operating from the campus club station DL0TUD in JO61UA, and from DM7A on the Fichtelberg, JO60LK contest QTH, mostly on 23cm.

Now I am living and working as an RF engineer in Munich (JN58UC), frequently operating at DL1A / DM9K (@DJ6ZM).

I am a high speed telegraphy / QRQ enthusiast; 8 times German champion of High Speed Telegraphy (between 2000 & 2011), member of the German HST Team, winner of three gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals in RufzXP and MorseRunner between 2006 and 2011.

Developer of the multilingual Morse course and practice website "Learn CW Online", http://lcwo.net/ and author of various ham radio programs, e.g. ebook2cw, a popular text to CW converter.

Member of: DARC (DOK S07 since 2005, 1997-2004 N16), HSC, VHSC, SHSC, RTC, AGCW-DL, FOC, WWYC, HACWG, LZCWC, SKCC, GDXF, BCC etc.
Winner of the GACW Certificate of Excellence 2009.

You might have heard me as (not quite complete):

PA/DJ1YFK/p (EU-038, 1999 and IOTA-Contest 2003) * IR3HST (HST-Championship in Pordenone 1999) * OZ/DJ1YFK/p (at OZ7HVI, EU-029) and 5P1ER (from Copenhagen -- TNX OZ1AA) * SM0/DJ1YFK/p (at SK0UX -- TNX SM0JHF) * SK9HQ (IARU-Contest 2000) * SK0TM (a few QSOs when visiting the Telemuseum, 2000) * DA0RTC (11-17th Dec 2000) * YR0HST (Special-Event-Call of the HST-Championship in Constanta 2001) * OY/DJ1YFK/p (Summer 2001) * TF/DJ1YFK/p (Summer 2001) * DA0HSC (50 Years of HSC, August (?) 2001) * 8Q7ZZ (Maldives DXpedition in 2002) * IK5/DJ1YFK/P (San Vivaldo, September 2002) * 9A/DJ1YFK/p (from 9A7P in Pazin, July 2003) * DL0HSC (HSC Contest February 2004) * YU0HST (HST Championship in Nis, September 2004) * DM1A (M/S WAE CW 2005 from DL0WW) * DR1A (several M/M operations, WPX and CQWW) * DP4K (RDXCs) * SP0WWYC, 3Z1LH, SP1/DJ1YFK (WWYC Meeting in Darlowko, Lighthouse POL003, August 2005). * DA0DD (800 years Dresden) * DP4T (CQWW CW 2005, 2010 M/S) * PP5WRTC, PP5/DJ1YFK and PT5V (WRTC, July 2006 Brazil) * 4O7WWYC (3rd WWYC Meeting in Serbia, August 2006) * LZ5HST (5th IARU Region 1 HST Championship, Primorsko, Bulgaria, September 2006) * PI4ZI (PACC 2007, 2009 M/M) * DA0WWYC (4th WWYC Meeting Munich 2007) * SP75E, SP/DJ1YFK (SP-DX-Contest 2008 at SP5ZCC/SN5Z, CW Fieldday 2009) * LZ8WHST (8th HST Worldchampionships, Obzor, September 2009) * OE9R, OE/DJ1YFK (January 2011, CQWW 160m, REF CW in Bregenz) * E7/DJ1YFK (February 2011, in and near Sarajevo, tnx E71DX and E73M) * DA0HST (May 2011, WPX CW M/M) * ZS6/DJ1YFK (August 2011, IARU Region 1 conference, ZS6IARU)

I am QRV on all bands, mostly in CW. Any speed from QRSS to QRQQ.

Proud owner and builder of Elecraft K2#5054.

Other Interests: Linux/Unix, programming (mostly Perl and C), foreign languages, classic science fiction.

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