WHO IS DL4MCF ?
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thank you for visiting my homepage. I want to give you some informations about me and my hamradio interests and activities. |
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My name is Thomas "Tom" Platz. I was born 1964 in Bavaria, Germany. I am living in Karlshuld, a small village 65 km north north west of Munich in South Germany. 1990 I finished my studies in Printing Technics. Several years I worked as an engineer in a printing office. After some further professional training I am now self-employed in occupational health and safety business |
| My first contact with hamradio I had in 1979 when I bought a small CB-Radio. But this was not very exciting and I decided to become a radio amateur. Without any help I learned for the examination and got my amateur-radio licence and the callsign DL4MCF in 1982 at the age of 18. Since 1997 I am also licensed with the U.S.-Alaska callsign AL0C. |
 DL4MCF at the multiplier station at DF3CB's shack during CQWWDX-Contest 2001 |
| During the first 3 years of my
amateur-radio "carreer" I made a lot of ragchew QSOs mostly in SSB. In 1985 I started to work also in RTTY. In 1986, my good friends Bernd (DF3CB) and Helmut (DK6WL) inspired me for DXing and contesting and since this time I am getting more and more crazy in these things. In 1987 I learned to use my morse key again after nearly 5 years without it. Now I have no favourite mode, and I am working CW, SSB and RTTY with the same intensitiy. If you want to know more about my success in DXing, please click here |
 DL4MCF and OH2BH discussing about DX at the BCC-booth at HAM RADIO convention 2003 |
| Until now I made about 150.000 QSOs with my own callsign and several 10.000 QSOs with other calls from clubstations, in contests and on DXpeditions. I like to get QSL cards and nearly 50.000 cards are already in my collection. |
| I took part in many contests with my own call and also with other calls like DK0EE, DA0BV, DL0CS, LX7A, TK1A, RW2F, 5B4BCC, TK5NN, 9Y4NW, CN8WW, A61AJ and more. . You can find some contest scores here ! |
 The 20m-SSB Team of CN8WW SSB 2000 (Multi/Multi World Record !) DJ9KV, DL6RAI, DL4MCF, DJ7EO |
| I am a member of BCC (Bavarian Contest Club), one of the most successful contest clubs in Europe. I like to collect awards and I am a member of DIG (Diplom Interessen Gruppe, Nr. 3564). For supporting Dxpeditions I am a member of German DX Foundation (GDXF). Like most german radio amateurs, I am also a member of DARC (Deutscher Amateur Radio Club) and I am spending a lot of time in our local radio club in Eching near Munich (DK0EE). |
| So look around a little bit on these
sites and find some more informations about me. vy 73 de Thomas, DL4MCF |