Well, who knows - I might have met a few of you (or your fathers) at Rhein Main airbase in abt 1968-1970 when I worked at Frankfurt Airport as a Flight Dispatcher for Seaboard World Airlines on DC-8's - we used to do the MAC flights!
I got into ham radio by a roundabout way - when I was called up to the (then just established after the war!) german military service at the end of 1966 they stuck me into the signals corps (although I had expressed a preference for the airforce - even willing to sign on for 12 years!) - we were listening to the Russians in East Germany and triangulating their stations (I'm sure that must now be off the 'secret' list? - I had to sign a doc to that effect - well, if not - I'm just a couple of years off from my inevitable demise - so I don't give a - what was it again?)
Anyway, they trained us on morse code to the russian military standard, which was about 175 or 35 wpm!
So that was pretty good at the time - when I got back to civilian life I met someone who became a good friend & who happened to be a radio ham! - he got me into it!
Have beeninterested in radio comms ever since but only got my licence in 1983 when I was living in Nassau, Bahamas.
Still have the callsign - C6ADH and got my UK callsign G0DKO in 1986.
Have been off air since abt 1999 when the computer stuff came in seriously - thought that it would kill ham radio -
now getting old and wanting to have something to do in the long evenings, bought myself another radio and went back on the bands - only a couple of weeks ago - amazed that it seems busier than I remember the bands being all that time ago!
So, there we are- it relieves my boredom in the long evenings and keeps me from writing long, boring comments on this shooting forum hehe
Gunter G0DKO / C6ADH
NRA Life 1974
