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The participants of the meeting in front of the conference building

More than 50 German G-QRP Club members, with some Austrian and Czech members attended an annual meeting of the German Chapter of the G-QRP Club at the last weekend of April 2000. Conference venue was Pottenstein, a small town with 1.500 inhabitants in the "Frankish Swiss". The meeting was organized by Rudi Dell DK4UH, the G-QRP Club German representative. The three day event included an impressive and varied programme of lectures:

Thomas, DL1JBE, gave an overview about the basics of Digital Signal Processing in ham radio from a theoretical point of view.
Helmut, DL2AVH, presented a super-mini and fast "TX/RX switch" using SIPMOS transistors BSS138 and BSS123 (Infineon). The module can be used up to 20 W RF. Th PCB size is only 33 mm x 14 mm.
Bernd, DK3WX, demonstrated his QRP data transceiver C3TRX based on his well-known DDS. He drew up a graphical user interface for the TCVR written in DELPHI as well.

Two lectures dealt with antennas:

Oliver, DF6MS, showed a low cost and low weight shortwave beam on the basis of G4ZU.
A pyramidial wire antenna for 20 m was presented by Willi, DK6SX. The antenna was set up outside around a vertical fishing rod. Willi demonstrated some QRP QSOs with the "pyramid" under excellent wx conditions.
Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB, lectured on baluns with defined and undefined impedances. Furthermore, he gave a report about the PLC situation in Germany and spoke about German EMC regulations.

The xyls had their own programme including a sightseeing tour by couch. They visited the castles of Rabenstein and Greifenstein as well as a falconery.

For the first time, conference proceedings were available for all participants.
Many thanks to Rudi for his hard work!


The conference station DL0VLP	Oliver, DF6MS, supported by Willi, DK6SX, while measuring the resonance frequency of a beam element

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