Welcome...

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...to my little corner on the Web 1.0. This is a shortened version of my home page in German with slightly (sic!) different contents.
I've tried to sort the pages in such a way that the most current ones (or those that are more worth reading) come first, since there are a few outdated ones around as well.

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About the author

• Finished in 2009: Study of electrical engineering at Ulm University, Germany. Diploma thesis on noise in fractional/integer-N PLLs.
• Currently working in IT support.
• Old-time computer geek with only moderately interesting, fairly outdated hardware, but a keyboard collection largely thanks to geekhack.org. (Look here for some pics.) I finally built my first new PC in ages in early 2022, using a Fractal Define R5 case, be quiet! Straight Power 11 550W PSU, an i7-11700 on an ASUS TUF Z590-PLUS WIFI with 16 gigs of plain JEDEC Crucial DDR4-3200 (took a few BIOS updates before those were stable out of the box) and a new 2 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus to complement my old 850 PRO, all tweaked for low power consumption (yes I know, Rocket Lake and low power, but it beats a 45nm socket 775 affair, you know?). A Noctua NH-U14S keeps the CPU cool, and a be quiet! Silent Wings 4 140mm PWM provides extra ventilation when needed, complementing the stock Fractal fans. The Turtle Beach Impact 500 tenkeyless with custom keycap set, Logitech Trackpoint Marble and Cherry G80-3700 numeric keypad have remained, as have my old but still nice NEC 1990SXi monitor (S-IPS still rules for viewing angles, and I really need those), Kyocera FS-920 mono laser with matching print server (now with a much more efficient power supply) and my chunky Epson Expression 1640XL scanner (A3 size makes handling schematics and such that much easier).
• Audio gear worth mentioning: K+H O110 active monitors, Mackie 402VLZ4 mixer and t.bone SC400 condenser mic, a Sonarworks SoundID Reference measurement mic mostly used with an EVO 4 interface, plus a JDS Labs Atom Amp+ in the bedroom with Sennheiser HD600s that's being fed either by one of my tweaked Kenwood tuners or an old Dell Latitude E6330, and Edifier MR3s in the kitchen fed by an Onkyo T-905X micro component tuner, my old Clip+ or whatever I decide to connect via BT. O110s, T-905X and bedroom setup are behind easy-to-reach hard power switches on power strips and whatnot.
• For a bit of photography, there's a Pentax K-50 with some new and a bunch of old "glass" and an AA cell adapter (the old solenoid problem…), plus the preceding K-x gathering dust next to my trusty little Olympus SP-310 and some old Porst/Cosina manual SLRs.
• Shortwave rigs: Sony ICF-SW7600 (recapped), AOR AR7030 PLUS , Sony ICF-SW7600G, and the shelf queens: DE1102, Eton E100 (newer version, sticky rubbery finish now removed), Roadstar TRA-2350P, Redsun RD1220, Sony ICF-7600A, ICF-7601, ICF-SW30, Grundig Concert-Boy 1100, Grundig Signal 700, Sony ICF-SW12, Philips D1835, AE3405, ITC Julia;
  Bath radio: Panasonic RF-1410LBS

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Some links

See the link section on my home page in German.

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Any comments?

Last update: 2025-06-07