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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(I posted this as one long post w/ 4.5mb of photos and haven't seen it hit either the server or my mailbox... so am posting with fewer photos and more sections. Apologies if you get both versions.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Part 1:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Arrived at Frankfurt airport around 11:30 local time, and have spent the day with Gert Redlich, creator of the <a href="http://www.fernsehmuseum.info/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: #0018ea"><u>fernsehmuseum.info</u></font></a> website.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Our first stop was a <a href="http://www2.tonbandmuseum.info/andere-museen.0.html"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: #0018ea"><u>small radio museum in the town of Pfungstadt</u></font></a>, where "Mr. Fese" Liam O'Hainnin greeted us with coffee and cake.</font></div> <br><img src="cid:B5C758FE-4962-4061-9E54-CD026795D917@gateway.org.10.in-addr.arpa"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Among other people there: Helmut Bergman, DL3FA, who says he's had good contacts on 20 meters, Saturday with Eastern US Hams. He invites a call. "<b>CQ DL3FA</b>." He's usually on the air from 1800-2200 Frankfurt time, which is 6-hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Helmut has a 1923 German ham set on display at the museum. Ask him to tell you about it.</font></div> <br><img src="cid:35C5BBE7-3BA6-4381-BA63-462D56ADC30F@gateway.org.10.in-addr.arpa"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">We then ventured over to Liam's home and collection of vintage radios, wire recorders, and Bosch Fernseh equipment.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I'll be putting a page together about that before I get home (or I'll never have time to do so...) and will post more photos.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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