[WWYC] dj1yfk 2009 GACW DX Contester of the Year

[Bostjan Voncina - S55O]

It's not new news, but i just came across it....my congrats Fab!

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Boštjan


Last month GACW published this announcement:

*2009 GACW DX Contester of the Year *

The GACW - CW Group of Argentina want to give to Fabian Kurz DJ1YFK a
Certificate of Excellence for his amateur radio community contribution and
contester skills.

Personal Web Site at: http://fkurz.net/

Fabian is a well know CW operator born in 1983. First licensed (as DG9YFK)
in November 1997 at the age of 14, upgrade to DJ1YFK and made his first CW
QSOs in March 1998.

He is also holding an US extra class license (AD5UR), and you can find him
in RUFZ and HST top lists.

Since October 2003, he is studying electrical engineering at the Dresden
University of Technology.

Developer of Linux/Unix software for amateur radio free use:

YFK Log book,
YFK Test contest logger
Learn CW online
ebook2cw - convert ebooks to morse MP3s
qrq - a simple high speed CW trainer
cwbiff - a morse code mail notifier

QRZ.com and QRZ.ru lookup plugin for Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird

He is an QRQ enthusiast and have six titles from 2000 to 2006 in the German
High Speed Telegraphy contest.

He won several international contest medalls as a German HST Team member and
he still have the RufzXP World Champion title.

This is not a monetary reward but this is the best prize we can give such
kind of young contester

*Fabian Kurz DJ1YFK
2009 GACW DX Contester of the Year *