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My name is Ralph, I was born in 1970, and my wife Manuela (dk6la) and me (dk5ras) live in Fürth near Nürnberg / Nuremburg.
Perhaps you wonder why I got so much interested in all kinds of wireless communications. In the age of seven I got my first pair of walkie talkies - crappy little things with a range of about 100m, but it was enough to infect me with the "radiowave virus"! Two or three years later I got a handheld CB transceiver with 12 channels and 0.5 Watts output power, the maximum allowed at this time. Huh, quite good - but not good enough. It was about the same time when my father got his radio amateur licence.
Very interesting - suddenly connections of hundreds of kilometres were possible, and I also wanted to be allowed to use it, but the laws (and my father) were against me. So I used it when my father was at work :-) In 1986 we got new laws which made all my little funny radio experiments (oscillators, self made bugs) extremely illegal; not just the activities but also even ownership of such devices - and at the same time I became 16 years old, so I was allowed to pass the examination to get the licence, and everything was legalized with this little green card...so I became a fanatic VHF/UHF radio crack.
After finishing my studies in 2000 I was able to work for a company, doing all kinds of radio stuff, including BOS, LMR and aviation radio. In 2006 I changed to a company supplying industrial electronic devices. There I work as an engineer for development, doing mainly quality assurance, service, building analog devices on special customers demand and maintaining the Windows XP embedded we use in our devices.
So far the story behind it...over the years the technology changed - SMD, digital modulated mobile phones, smaller and more powerful transceivers, matchbox sized pagers; as I tried to keep up to date all the time I am familiar with almost all kinds of wireless communications in the VHF and UHF frequency bands. Now the time has come to spread my little knowledge over the web - perhaps someone out there finds it useful.