Biography

Thank you for looking up my callsign,
I´m born 1955 and have been a swl ham since 1968 (DM-4843/L). My first licene from 1970 (DM5XVL). I am a keen cw operator on the hf bands.In my log are located over 40000 QSO's with radio amateurs from 276 countries.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

HF/6m/4m: Icom IC7300; for portabel/SOTA: Icom IC-705 + ATU100 ext.Board

VHF/UHF: Icom IC9700; SOTA 23cm Transverter from LZ5HP with TH-F7E

QRP Outdor: Icom IC-705 HF/6m/2m/70cm, 5 Watts, HF-P1 Vertical Antenna, Doublet from NorCal-QRP Club, HEFD-Antenna for 40m-10m

mobile rig VHF/UHF: Kenwood TM-D710GE, 2x TM-V7E, 2x TH-G71E, TH-F7E, TH-D74E

handheld VHF/UHF: Kenwood TH-D74E,TH-G71E,TH-F7E; Alinco DJ-G7EG; Icom T81E

ant: HEF-antenna for HF-Bands, Duoband-Yagi / X200 for VHF/UHF Band

ant 23cm: Diamond VX4000 / for SOTA: 10el. and 17el. Yagi / 2el. Quad / HB9CV (all home made)

APRS: Digi DL1ARK-3 with TM-D710GE; mobile with FTM-500 also DL1ARK-9

DStar: Hotspot with Raspi 3B/MMDV-Mega, 433.650 Mhz simplex (DL1ARK-B), public

Ex-Calls: DM5XVL, Y56OM, Y24HM, Y21RK

My further Hobbies are collection and restoration of old radios.

These can look at it on my homepage https://www.tonko-online.de