Association of radio amateurs in telecommunications and post
The Association of Radio Amateurs in Telecommunications and Post (VFDB eV) is the association of radio amateurs in telecommunications and post in Germany. However, admission to participate in the amateur radio service is not a prerequisite for membership. The VFDB has around 2100 members. CQ VFDB is the name of the quarterly membership magazine of the Association of Radio Amateurs in Telecommunications and Post.
history
Previously, the club was called " V erband the F unkamateure the D eutsche B undespost" when it came to the abbreviation VFDB .
Since July 1948, the Oberpostdirektion held the first amateur radio exams. The Deutsche Bundespost quickly recognized that the technical interest and knowledge of the radio amateurs from within their own ranks was also beneficial for official matters. So the officials of the DBP were promised subsidies, on the condition that they join together in a postal association.
The VFDB was founded on January 11, 1950 in Darmstadt. Among the eleven founding members were well-known names in amateur radio circles such as Willi Menzel, Alfred Schädlich and Karl Sonntag. The first district associations were then founded and work could begin. The monthly membership fee was initially set at 0.50 DM.
aims
The association has the following goals:
- Association of people who want to work in or are interested in radio communications, in particular in the amateur radio service
- Training of members and interested parties to become radio amateurs and their further training in radio communications
- technical advice and support for members, exchange of experiences and suggestions for telecommunications developments
- Collecting and passing on the observations and experiences of the members to promote international amateur radio
- Presentation of amateur radio in public
- Promotion of the cooperation of radio amateurs in scientific tasks
- friendly cooperation with other amateur radio associations
- The association is selfless, it does not primarily pursue its own economic purposes.
The association is part of the German Amateur Radio Club - DARC e. V. affiliated to the company.
particularities
Immediately after the establishment, the Federal Post Office ( BPM ) issued a funding order, so many radio devices of the former Wehrmacht were available to radio amateurs in the VFDB after they had been removed from the radio equipment offices. The members of the VFDB were allowed to set up their club stations on the upper floors of the telecommunications offices and install antennas on the roofs of the offices. In addition, retired devices were made available for the club stations. Official measuring devices were allowed to be used by VFDB members.
After individual radio amateurs discovered the ultra-short waves ( VHF ) for amateur radio, it quickly became clear that the short ranges could be compensated for with relay stations. Through their employer, the Deutsche Bundespost ( DBP ), the VFDB members had the option of installing relay radio stations on the telecommunications towers .
This funding decision has not existed since the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost (1994), but a framework agreement concluded in 1998 with the Telekom subsidiary Deutsche Telekom Immobilienservice Management (DeTeImmobilen) enables VFDB members to continue to use automatic amateur radio stations (such as relays , transponders and digipeaters ) to operate on telecommunications towers and to be allowed to build new ones (although no longer free of charge). There is a similar agreement with the successor organization, the German radio tower. This means that more than 100 of these excellent locations are still available to the amateur radio community in Germany.
In addition to the "old" post office workers of the former Deutsche Bundespost, there are also many radio amateurs / officials from other authorities , such as B. the BOS (police, fire brigade etc.) member of the VFDB.
Structure and numbers
The VFDB is divided into district and local associations. Local associations are each assigned to a district association and numbered consecutively:
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Bavaria
Berlin-Brandenburg
Hamburg
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Hesse
Lower Saxony
North Rhine
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Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
Westphalia
Württemberg
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foreign countries
In France there is a similar association, the Association des Radioamateurs Postiers et Telecommunicants (Association of Radio Amateurs in France Télécom ), with which the VFDB maintains a friendly relationship.