In 1972 I began to start my interests in ham radio. When I was aged ten, I started to tinker with electronic parts. One of my never forgotten favourite circuits was a little morse code generator. Inside the kit-manual was shown a drawn picture of a professional radio operator with a morse keyer in one hand and a pencil in the other hand. He was listening to shortwave signlas while he was writing down the morse code. Well, never in my life I could forget this picture. That was exactly something which I would like to do in future, too ...

After learning on and with the first electronic construction kit there followed another kit and just another more kit and etc. Maybe I got seven kits or so. During I grew up the projects I worked on were getting bigger and more complex. Some day I was able to assemble my first transmitter for the UKW frequency range. This free-running oscillator with its power amplifier was a really "big gun", because its output power I could gain up to more than five watts.

Learning bussines of the radio and television engineer changed my life fundamental. Fortunately my supervisor was a radio amateur. So he took me by his side and said that for working in the R&T business it is fundamental to be a good Morse Code operator. Some minutes later he put a headset onto my ears and than he ordered me to begin learning CW.

Within a few weeks I was able to listen real Morse Code on the bands. After learning ham radio techniques and other stuff I was ready for the licence test. A few months later I did the test well and from the regulation authority I received the call sign DF5EN.

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