Biography

DC7OT (ex: DO7OT)

Radio Amateur since June 2021 (German Class A = CEPT Full License [equiv. to Extra] since April 9th, 2022).
Member of DARC e. V. OV R14 (Solingen)

OV-Website: https://www.cqsg.de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darc.ov.solingen.r14
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darc_ov_r14
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@darc_ov_r14
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@darc_ov_r14_solingen/videos
OV-Frequenz: 144,7125 MHz FM

I live with my family in the "City of Blades" Solingen, famous worldwide for its swords, knifes, scissors and cutlery. Solingen is located about 40 km (25 mi) driving distance northeast of Cologne in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and has about 165,000 inhabitants. Our QTH is located about 254 m (833 ft) above sea level in the district of Solingen-Gräfrath. My YL Johanna has the callsign DG7OY.

SWL QSLs welcome!
A proper SWL reception report includes not only date and time, but also the callsign of my QSO partner and a report about the signal strength (in this case mine). Especially with FT4 or FT8 you sometimes have several QSOs per minute, so the date and time information alone is not sufficient. The indication of the callsign of the remote station also makes it much easier for me, because I can simply search for the callsign and it immediately shows me the QSO date and time in the log.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Icom IC-7300 (HF+6 meter) with Desktop Mic ICOM SM-30
DX Commander Classic Plus 80 Multi Band Vertical (80/40/30/20/17/15/12/10 meter - 80 m as inv. L)
Delta Loop for 6 meter (horizontal polarization)
X-Phaser (QRM Eliminator)
Lingua Speech Extractor V7
SDR Panadapter with Airspy HF+ Discovery
Work in progress: DIY Gainmaster 5/8 vertical antenna for 10-12 meter

(tr)uSDX 5 Band QRP Transceiver

Yaesu FT-991A (HF/VHF/UHF) with Desktop Mic YAESU M-70
Diamond X-300N, Flexayagi FX 213 (7 ele 2 m) /w Rotor

YAESU FTM-300DE (2 m/70 cm Mobile) in my car
Diamond NR-770H

YAESU FT-3D (2 m/70 cm HT) with Speaker mic YAESU SSM-17A
Diamond SRH-771

Icom IC-3210E (2 m/70 cm Mobile) in our second QTH (Campground in JO31qq)
Diamond X-50N

And some equipment for tinkering (NanoVNA, Oscilloscope etc.).