Amateur 1st Class Radio Operator

Updated, as of Jan. 12, 2025

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My first overseas trip was to West Germany in 1976. This time, US1$ was equal to JPYEN 310 (4 times more expensive than now), so I thanked my parents who gave me this opportunity to go abroad, when I was 20 years old. I visited Aschaffenburg, where my uncle's family lived, and I had received German Amateur Radio Licence (JE1BQE/DL) there.

I met some Amateur Radio Operators there, who were Sigi (DK9FN), Holger (DF2FQ) and Bernhard (DF5FJ) from Seligenstadt. We quickly became good friends, and our friendship is continued.

Bernhard and his wife Elke (DL1ZBT) named their children, my name "Hideyuki", my father's name "Toshio" and my brother's name "Naoyuki", as their middle names. These children are also Amateur Radio Operators, Andreas (DO1XAT), Christoph (DO5CT), and Daniel (DO7DT).

As Thiem Family is pro-Japanese, they have a beautiful Japanese garden at their house.

Bernhard is good at designing micro controller circuits, and he has been helping my job in Germany.

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Belmont is an affluent city in San Mateo County in California. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area between San Francisco and San Jose.

I have visited here some times, because we had the United States Laboratory of our company here.

We Japanese can activate amateur radio there with Japanese amateur radio license (Callsign is W6/Japanese Callsign), because of a Reciprocal Operating Agreements between the United States and Japan.

[Station Information]

* QTH : Belmont, California, U.S.A.
* Grid Locator : CM87UM
* Output Power : HF(1kW), 50MHz(500W), 144/430MHz(50W)

Acknowledgments : Special Thanks to Bob (K2RM), Marty (JA1KRM), Teru W6DHH (JA7DHH), Zen KD6IH (KD6IH, JA2CUY) and staffs of GRE America, Inc. for their kind hospitality.

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One of my best friends in Korea, Professor Dr. Jong-Myung Woo of Chungnam National University in Daejeon City, often invites me to make a lecture at his university. He helped me to receive my Amateur Radio Station licence (Callsign HL3ZCG) at his Antenna Laboratory in 2014.

[Station Information]

* QTH : Daejeon, Korea
* Grid Locator : PM36QI
* KDN : R05

Acknowledgments : Special Thanks to Professor Dr. Jong-Myung Woo, Professors, Associate Professors, Lecturers, Students, and my Amateur Radio Friends in Korea for their kind hospitality.

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