DK5BK Manfred Bittner
Locator: JO32xe - DOK: I27 - ITU Zone 28
My radio station
In June 1972, I passed the exam for the major license at the Oberpostdirektion in Bremen and was given the callsign DK5BK.
My company was doing well and I bought a Kenwood Trio-Line 599
Between 1970 and 1989 I drew circuit diagrams
for large brickworks on the drawing board.
I had already made sketches and notes on the construction site and during meetings.
Often also on Sundays, Christmas, Easter and Pentecost - from early in the morning until late in the evening - many, many hours.
At the same time, I mostly listened to 40m SSB and tuned in, seldom.
I was always multitasking.
From 1990 I worked with CAD on the computer and it was over with multitasking and SSB
I am member number 372 of the "Flieger-Funk-Runde"
Today I'm with my Trio-Line every Saturday morning at 07:00 local time in SSB on 3,688.500 kHz in the "Flieger-Funk-Runde"
The receiver is good, the transmitter makes a clean modulation and I have to tune by ear.
70 Watt output is enough for me and I don't like parting with things that I've grown fond of.
My digimode department.
Left: An FT-987D with an old PC for PSK31
In the middle: An IC-7300 with a notebook for jwst
to the right: A control panel for a magnetic loop 10 to 30mc everything homemade.
Over 50 years my electronics corner
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Two steel masts each 18 meters high.
Self-welded and assembled in 1973.
Above: A full-size double dipole 80/40 m with a toroidal balun.
Below: a homemade multiband dipole from 1.5 to 30 mc.
In the middle a CG 3000 automatic tuner with a 1: 4 balun.
Our neighbors say, "These are our lightning rods."
A view of our village from the edge of the forest.
Our village is known in the area for its cherries and in the world for equestrian sports.
More about equestrian sports from my neighbors on the left: Hof Kasselmann – Hof Beckerode