SILENT KEY
Inviato: 28 maggio 2022, 16:23Kurt "Conny" Schips, DL1DA passed away on 21 May, two weeks after his 95th birthday. A pioneer of amateur radio in Germany, he was first licensed as DE7213, and then as D3KNN in 1942. Through a creative means of
pressuring the legislative authority to pass the law, Conny was one of initiators of the German amateur radio regulations after World War II. In January 1949 he took part in the fabled "Brick Action" (Backsteinaktion), when hundreds of German amateurs mailed a genuine brick to the authority "to provide a good foundation for the law". As a result, the new Amateur Radio Act (Amateurfunkgesetz) came into force a couple of months later. As early as 1954 he was awarded DARC's Golden Badge of Honour in recognition of his services to amateur radio in Germany. Conny was also very active on the bands; he operated from over 100 countries and was on the DXCC Honor Roll with 338/ 367 (current/total) Entities confirmed in the Mixed standings.
pressuring the legislative authority to pass the law, Conny was one of initiators of the German amateur radio regulations after World War II. In January 1949 he took part in the fabled "Brick Action" (Backsteinaktion), when hundreds of German amateurs mailed a genuine brick to the authority "to provide a good foundation for the law". As a result, the new Amateur Radio Act (Amateurfunkgesetz) came into force a couple of months later. As early as 1954 he was awarded DARC's Golden Badge of Honour in recognition of his services to amateur radio in Germany. Conny was also very active on the bands; he operated from over 100 countries and was on the DXCC Honor Roll with 338/ 367 (current/total) Entities confirmed in the Mixed standings.