FOC Con-Din 2008 
Lüneburg Germany
Whitsun weekend Friday 9th till Sunday 11th May 2008

 Update 14-MAY-2008

By Gerd DJ4KW and Gisela DK9GG

The 2008 Con-Din was held on the Whitsun weekend 9-11th May in Lueneburg near Hamburg, Germany and it was organised by Gisela and Gerd. The dinner itself was on Saturday May 10th evening at the Hotel Bergstroem in Lueneburg. 


 

The Hotel Bergstroem in Lueneburg, venue for the 2008 Con-Din. 
(©2007 Bergström GmbH and reproduced with the friendly permission of the the hotel).

On Friday 9th May we had an informal get-together in the beer-garden of one of the Bergström restaurants at the large house in the middle of the above picture left of the bridge.

Saturday 10th May started with a tour to crane (see picture above, built around the year of 1300), followed by a horse-driven tour through the city.  The afternoon continued with a guided tour through the Luneburg town hall and ended with a visit to the large ship-lift in the "Elbe-Seiten"-canal.  At the dinner 28 members and guests were present.

Please see http://www.picasaweb.google.de/gsapper600/ConDinDJ4KW  for more pictures. 
Please follow links below for pictures with higher resolution.

 

Lüneburg town hall © 2006 Siegmar Schmidt c/o AC6YM


Gisela and Gerd invited the 28 and two local hams to an Open House on Whitsun Sunday 11th May. CW-operators could operate the station with the club call DK0FOC (trustee Baldur DJ6SI).  Chris G3SJJ brought his K3 transceiver; it was connect to the antennas in a way that with the flip of a switch it could be compared with the ICOM-7800 station transceiver and it compared more than satisfactorily.  On display was also Gerd's uncounted collection of crank-operated local-battery telephones, WW-II radio receivers and 50 year old receivers and transmitters.    

Photos with higher resolution:

Picture Dinner   © DJ6TK

Picture K3

Picture FOC-OP  © DJ6TK

Picture Group

Picture Visitors

Unless otherwise noted, pictures are © DJ4KW and DK9GG           

FOC Con-Din 2007 
Bad Saarow Germany
(26th May 2007)

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From left to right

1. OZ1LO Leif 
2. DJ8FW Ben
3. DJ8FW-2 Birgit
4. W1HMD Larry
5. DF5JT Peter
6. DL6KCD Christa
7. DK5AD Knut
8. DF5JT-2 Julia
9. W1HMD-2 Gerri
10. F5VCT Bo
11. F5VCT-2 Marianne
12. PA0INA-2 Lianne
13. DL8LBK Ken
14. PA0INA Frans
15. DJ6SI Baldur
16. DL7AKC Jens
17. DJ4KW Gerd
18. DL1BUG Red
19. DL4CF Joe
20. DK9GG Gisela
21. PA0BW-2 Ann
22. PA0BW Hein
23. DL1BUG-2 Petra 


Photo © 2007 DJ4KW

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