[UK-CONTEST] OT: German document translation

[Dave Sergeant]

Sorry for the reflector reply, but Jim does not seem to be responding 
to direct emails (check your spam folder?). But as you will see, this 
is not quite so off topic as you might think.

I offered to translate Jim's article and have sent him a translation. 
The article is about the DJ4VM multiband quad (surely what every 
contester needs..) and although the source is not given it appears to 
be an extract from the book Antennenbuch by Karl Rothammel - a classic 
in German amateur radio circles but it seems there is no English 
version. As such it is incomplete since there are references to text 
and diagrams elsewhere in that tome.

The original article by DJ4VM appeared in DL-QTC (now CQ-DL, the DARC 
mag) in September 1968. It was then published in Ham Radio by him in 
August 1969. The DL-QTC article looks available in the DARC archive, 
members only, obviously in German. I have not been able to find an 
online copy of the Ham Radio one, the only archive I found has nothing 
in it and it looks as if they have been removed for copyright reasons. 
If anybody has access to Ham Radio I am sure Jim would be interested.

>From my study of the antenna, it has a very impressive performance but 
the setting up is quite involved and is based on a fairly complicated 
matching unit. The described process involves a GDO, there are probably 
better ways nowadays.

I see there are loads of people using the DJ4VM but there seems to be 
virtually nothing about it in English, which seems a little strange. 
Maybe some of you know different.

(and Jim, if you did not receive my translation please say).

73 Dave G3YMC

On 8 Sep 2012 at 20:50, Jim Balls wrote:

> ITMm looking for someone to translate a German webpage to English, i have
> tried the Google translate but the output is pretty poor as I'm guessing
> the technical description doesnTMt translate too well.
> 
> Anyway if anyone can help the webpage is located
> 
> http://www.mydarc.de/dh1ply/riedlbauer296.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim (M0CKE)