Licensed in 2019, just before the pandemic, I got hooked on CW shortly after a few SSB QSOs. Studied with the Austrian Graz CW School, with another USA CW club and finally found my way to the CW Academy. It was good fortune to get into Buzz Tarlow’s class and with all the support, feedback and inspiration from him and his co-advisors I learned to communicate in CW. As they say, it’s a journey and it feels like the real learning has just started!
Born in Austria in 1964 I studied German literature and Philosophy and have been teaching those subjects at high school and partly at university since graduation. I am also involved in some teacher training programs and enjoy the work with students.
I am the proud father of a grown up daughter who is a successful medical doctor. I live on a farm in lower Austria near the Danube/Wachau with my YL.
In the Ham section of hobbies I enjoy SOTA and homebrewing kits like the QCX. I use a K3 in my shack with an end-fed halfwave antenna, which will be substituted by a ladder fed doublet soon. For SOTA I use a KX2, an IC 775 is still around as a backup.
Besides putting the patience of my wife to the test with CW I enjoy flying gliders, sailing and opera. For my 60th birthday I got tickets for Bayreuth, Wagner rules 😉 !
CWops to me is a unique club of people enthusiastic about something utterly useless, but nevertheless extremely fulfilling.
Playing for its own sake is something very human, and it feels good to be in the company of enthusiasts playing the game of CW.
I want to thank SM5GRD, N4DPM and M0WXG for sponsoring me and the members of my class for all the friendship, support and patience.
This biography is what appeared in Solid Copy when the member joined CWops.