Welcome to my side!

My name is Hans-Walter or just Hans.

Since 1984 I have a radio licence and I am especially activ on 2m and also on 70cm.

In Germany (DL) I was active from different locations.

From September 2007 to September 2010 I had the opportunity to work and live in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan (UK) and was happy to work with the callsign UK/DL9LBH. Using the moon for EME contacts I could give a lot of stations their first UK and also made some ever first contacts from UK to another country on 2m and 70cm eme.

Since September 2010 I am living in Astana, the capital of Kasakhstan (UN) and 7 Dezember I got my callsign UN/DL9LBH.

Because winter already started I had to wait until May to bring up my antennas, 21nd May 2011 I got ready and antennas are up!

A gift from my yl Christa (DL7IHD):

9th March 2012:

No moon, so I listened on the shortwave bands (FD4 windom antenna and GP), where I am very rare I have to admit.
Then on 21.076 MHz I heard a sound which was very familar to me, JT65A!

I never tried it before, but thanks to the good advices of DL5SWB at his homepage http://sites.google.com/site/jt65aaufkurzwelle/Home

I immedeately had my ever 1st qso with JT65A with VK8XZ on 15m and there and at 20m my log got filled very quick and I enjoyed it. So when I finally get my Flexradio you might find me also more often on sw in digital mode if I have no moon.

19th March 2012 finally my Flex-5000A arrived in Astana.

21st March I was operational on shortwave, after reading some of the 200 pages of the manual and some internet help advices.

22nd March after working on it the whole day (a day off because of Navrus) I am finally also qrv on 2m and 70cm. The Flex-5000A I got directly from the company has a built in 2m and 70cm Transverter (FLEX-VU5K), so I have all in one without external transverters. First trial looks promising  :-)