WebSite of DL6BCT

Günter Wolfgang Schnell is my name, but I prefer to be called by my nickname Wolf.

As a physicist, I worked in the field of electronics at a scientific institute in Berlin and in German and Danish industry. For the last two decades of my career, I worked as a teacher in math and physics. Now I am happily retired.

Photography. View pictures of Sweden’s leading contest station SK7MW and from the VUSFH Meetings 2006 amd 2007.

Working with my computer, e.g. designing web sites, manipulating images and programming Perl, PHP and Python. Try my online calculator to find out Distance and Azimuth between two stations. Also on this page is a discussion of the equations used and a Perl program implementing these equations. In the pre-PC days, I did quite a lot of of programming with a programmable pocket calculator. See Mathematics.

Building electronic stuff. On my page Electronic equipment, you will find pictures and brief descriptions of some of my projects.

DL 6 BCT is my callsign since 1989. I was licensed in 1986 (ex DG2BAW). When my son Ilan, DL5BCU upgraded his license in 1989, he was allowed to work on SW and I was not. Thus I had to learn CW and I managed to upgrade my license a few months later. Now I have forgotten CW but Ilan still is a good CW operator.

My ham radio activities have come to an end in 2010. Here a nostalgic look back on more than two decades of ham radio activity.

144 MHz has always been my favorite band. My former rig: An ICOM 275H and a COENS PA with an EIMAC 3CX800 tube, feeding 500 W into 2 x 17-element Tonna yagis, 13 m above ground, 18 m above sea level.

Nordic Activity Contest, Open Class, 144 MHz was my favorite contest. (Open Class is the class for participants outside the Nordic countries. The NAC is held on the first Tuesday of each month from 19:00 to 23:00 CET, or CEST in the summer months.)

I have participated in the NAC 150 times from January 1995 to December 2008. During that period, I had 11236 QSOs with 2980 stations.

View Stations wkd in NAC, a list containing every station I have worked in the NAC. It contains the station’s newest locator, the date of the most recent QSO, and the number of times I have worked the station.

View NAC Processing, a page with information about my contest program and how processing of the qso data is done.

Aurora Borealis, or northern lights, is the name of the phenomenon to be seen on the photograph above. The picture was taken by my son Arvin, ex DG3BCU late at night on November 17, 1989. The white dots in the clear sky are stars. During that night, the 144 Mhz band was crowded with stations doing aurora QSOs. (On 6 April 2000, there was again an Aurora Borealis, but less bright than the one nearly 11 years earlier.)

Mounted on the tower to the left, you can see my former VHF/UHF antennas, four 432 MHz yagis H-stacked between two vertically stacked 144 MHz yagis. All antennas and part of the tower were destroyed 1999 during a severe storm. I rebuilt the tower and the 144 MHz group, but not the 432 MHz group.

432 MHz was my favorite DX band. My score stands at 113 worked squares, see Squares wkd on 432 MHz. Although I went qrt on 70 cm back in 1999, I still hold a nice place on the DARC UKW-Topliste.

28 MHz was my favorite short wave band. On the above photograph, you can see my former three-element tri bander (10m, 15m, 20m).

1988 DLD 1000 #537 (1000 DOKs on 144 MHz and 432 MHz, SSB only)
1993 UKW - EU - D #141 (32 countries on 144 MHz)

I was webmaster for DARC I45 (section Worpswede) from 2000 till 2008. View this hinstoric website (phone numbers, email addresses and external links have been removed and the source code was upgraded).

Year	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Points *	311 759	353 001	323 760	344 479	304 728	387 387	381 708	401 485	360 047	422 366	217 142	296 109	287 108	250 258
Ranking	2^nd	3^rd	2^nd	2^nd	1^st	4^th	3^rd	4^th	5^th	3^rd	7^th	5^th	4^th	4^th