About me

DF1LX

Licensed since 1975 (DARC member since 1974)

Hi, I'm Peter, DF1LX, operating from JO42LE in Porta Westfalica, Germany.

Station Equipment

Transceiver: TS-590S
Drake L4B - 700 W max. out
Antennas: Kelemen 5 Band 6m up
Antenna: 2/70 X200
Digital Modes: Microham Interface (RTTY, FT8, FT4

Operating Preferences

I enjoy various aspects of amateur radio, including:

CW Operation Member of HSC, VHSC, SHSC and EHSC
Digital Modes (FT8, FT4, RTTY)
Contest Participation - Member of Bavarian Contest Club BCC
Software Development for Ham Radio

Software Projects

I'm passionate about developing software for the ham radio community. My main projects include:

HostiLog - A fast and efficient logging program
N1MM Toolbox - Utilities for N1MM+ Logger

QSL Information

QSL via:

Direct: Via DARC bureau
Electronic: eQSL, LoTW
QRZ.com Logbook

Ham Radio Journey

1973 - 1975

Due to my SWL time from 1973-1975 I got the smell of HamRadio in my nose - with an small radio I could hear UKW (mainly DB0AZ) and only FM. 1974 I visited Emil - DK4LI - and get a member of DARC - now I wanted to be a ham. SWL Nr. DE20170

1975

Schönkirchen - Ham Radio course - and I got my first license - DB2LX

1976

CW was easy to learn as I was young and hungry for going to the HF Band. I started with an FT250 + GP30 for around 7 years - start RTTY with an old LO15 - T100S + HAL6000. Wonderful sound! Today RTTY is very boring as it is most a F-Key mode.

CW is my favorite (>90%) and I am a member of HSC, VHSC, SHSC, EHSC club

2000 - 2010

Due to QRL (Cologne - Munich - Berlin) and bad conditions in my flat I was not active a lot of years. Only 3-4 CQ WW DX contests were done (Station of DL7ANR in Berlin). 2008 I worked some QSOs using a Kelemen 5 Band Dipole from Falkensee nr Berlin

2012-2017

I went to the countryside near Berlin (Jahnberge) and now I could build up a nice kind of Antenna"Farm". 285 DXCC with only 100 Watt and 5BDXCC (in LOTW) were the result.

2017 - Present

Due to the close of the office in Berlin I got the chance to get "pre"retirement for 5 yrs. Now we moved from East again to West - Porta Westfalica.

2021 I changed my antenna setup to an Aerial51 antenna from Spiderbeam - seems to work really great for my poor setup

Station Equipment Timeline

1975 - 1981 (QTH Süderbrarup JO44VP):
- KW GPA30 (Yeasu FT250)
- UKW: Multi 2000 + Ringo Ranger/HB9CV
1982 - 2001: FB33, Dipol for 40, 80, 160 (FT250 - later Kenwood TS830S - since 1992 TS850SAT)
2001 - 2012:(Munich, Berlin, Falkensee) Nothing or sometime Kelemen multiband dipole
2012 - August 2017 (QTH Jahnberge JO62IR):
- Fritzel FB53 + 18/24 WARC rotary dipol (33 feet up - Hummel Mast)
- Fullsize vertical polarized Delta Loop for 40m
- Dipol for 80/40 inv. vee
- Dipol for 160m inv. vee (fullsize)
- Rotor RC5A-3
- Ameritron 1:8 remote Switch
- Kenwood TS590S + MKII
2017 - Present (QTH Porta Westfalica):
- Dipole for 80/40m
- Kelemen 5 Band HP Dipol 6m up (2018)
- 43m LW for 160m very low (2018)
- Aerial51 allband wireantenna - max. 9m above ground (2020)

Achievements

My electroniy logbook show arouind 83000 QSOs since 2000. 5 Band DXCC, WAZ, WAS, WAE fullfilled. Around 285 DXCC Countries worked. I am not sure, how many conties I have, but in 2001 I counted around 1500 conties confirmed.

Until 2001 I had already confirmed around 230 DXCC as QSL cards - the DXCC countries are not included in the mentioned score and there is some thing to do.

German DOK I collected some hundred, more than 200 on 10m.

QSL Information

QSL via:

Direct: Via DARC bureau
Electronic: eQSL, LoTW (preferred)
QRZ.com Logbook

Year	Award	Class
2021	DARC VHF/UHF/SHF-Contest	Section E
2022	CQ WW DX Contest	Single Op, All Band
2022	DARC RTTY Contest	Single Op
2023	IARU HF Championship	Mixed Mode