Item from WORLDWIDE DX CLUB's DX Magazine Feb 2007
http://www.wwdxc.de

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE ---
SILENT KEY - WOLFRAM HESS, DL1RXA and DK0DX

Wolfram suffered an apoplectic stroke and died on February 9th, 2007; just
before the very last broadcast of Ham radio and SWL hobby program "World DX
Meeting" on Deutsche Welle's English service mailbox program on February
25/26, 2007.

He was born in 1940 and in 1954 he became the youngest radio amateur in the
GDR (DM3KNN), just 14 years old.

He started his occupational career as hobby program presenter on former GDR
external service "Radio Berlin International". After the collapse of the
eastern block he was well known as presenter of "DX Aktuell" hobby program
on Deutschland Radio Berlin broadcaster [former RIAS Berlin]. And was too,
well known as "Sunspot Cycle and HF broadcast condition prediction 'Pope'"
in the ham radio scene in Germany and beyond. Listen to some DW World
DX Meeting programmes in mp3 or .ra format:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,9542,00.html.

73 wb DF5SX Wolfgang Bueschel

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