Radio amateur (magazine)
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| description | International trade magazine for amateur radio, electronics and radio technology |
| publishing company | Box 73 Amateurfunkservice GmbH |
| First edition | 1952 (including the predecessors) |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 37,100 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Werner Hegewald, DL2RD |
| editor | Knut Theurich, DG0ZB |
| executive Director | Knut Theurich, DG0ZB |
| Web link | funkamateur.de |
| Article archive | Radio amateur archive |
| ISSN (print) | 0016-2833 |
Die Funkamateur is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of amateur radio . Among other things, she publishes building instructions and articles on theory and practice for radio amateurs and hobby electronics . Place of publication is Berlin.
It was founded as a magazine of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the publisher was the military publisher of the GDR . With the emergence of the computer sports sector within the GST in the 1980s, articles on computer topics , including instructions for building microcomputers such as the home computer AC1 or LLC1 and LLC2 , also appeared in the local scene .
The magazine still exists today under the same title as a magazine for amateur radio, electronics and radio technology and is published by Box 73 Amateurfunkservice GmbH, Berlin (IV / 2006). Topics are amateur radio operation and technology, current reception and transmission technology, electronics and computers. Commercial devices for reception and transmission are presented, and there is also room for self-construction projects. In the area of radio operations, there are experience reports on amateur radio competitions ( field days , contests ), event overviews for u. a. Germany and Austria and a radio weather forecast . There are also regular reports on radio reception ( BC-DX ) including shortwave broadcast schedules and on certain types of amateur radio (e.g. satellite radio, low-power amateur radio ( QRP ) or Morse code (CW)).
After the magazines QST from the USA and CQ ham radio from Japan, the magazine is the third largest of its kind in the world with a circulation of 36,400 copies.