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about childhood and early youth
During my childhood, my tinker nature was developed. In all
cases I wanted to build any thing by myself. As little child I
changed my wooden modules for using them better. Later,
silhouettes were important. When I was 8 years old, for my
sister's dolls I built a fair. She then expected that I should
install her a television set and a radio into the doll's
house. For building of such miniature sets the time of 1960
wasn't still ready. Nevertheless I tried to find a solution of
this problem by the fact that I immediately studied the
literatures from children library.
Soon I could build mechanical equipments like airplane
models, rockets and vehicle models. When I was 11 years old, I
built my first radio receiver. Before this, I worked
analytically: the radio receivers I got as gifts by friends, I
destroyed into all parts from which I learned. This way I
wasn't able to collect historical radios. Nothing remained,
not even the wonderful receiver of my father, an regenerative
detector, inside filled of wonders of tubes and copper.
In the same year 1961, I built my first AM-transmitter on
medium wave. I went to "grandma Adam" and adjusted
her radio at my carrier frequency and said to her:
"Grandma, in a few seconds you hear me in the
radio!" As she heard me, she was horrified and meant to
my mother: "We must watch him better!" Not a long
time later, I calculated the best orbit for technical
satellites which would fly to Mars and Venus so much later. As
the first Mars satellite really was flying, I noticed, that my
orbit calculation was very near the real orbit. My uncle
meant, I was the second Werner von Braun. When I was
seventeen, I built a complete pirate radio station. It
transmitted music and information. My transmissions were
stopped in spring 1968. While this time of electrical
engineering and electronics, I tested mixtures of chemical
substances. While this doing my interest of chemistry was
developed. I made powder mixtures for rocket propulsions. In
1966 I built a stereo-coil-tape-recorder. During my studies I
developed antennas and intensifier for receiving ultra-short
wave and TV from West Berlin in our "valley of
unsuspecting people". For all my friends I repaired their
radios, TV sets and tape recorder. My Russian TV set I
converted from SECAM-system to PAL. I myself constructed the
PAL-decoder for Raduga. Technical solutions starting from
mechanics following by construction works up to precision
engineering and electronics as well as information processing
technology, are not problems for me. But in my heart I
remained the "Mister Analog" - the "Man of the
Waves". Therefore I always was fascinated about universe
of waves and oscillators. The most interesting thing there is
the sensitivity of tip-over of states next to zero. Alone me
is best prepared to inform about my discoveries.
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