12 years of AGAF web pages
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In 1996 webmaster Johannes DL4EBJ of forerunner web pages "ATV at the Niederrhein" 
wrote to Heinz, DC6MR: "I shall introduce the AGAF and it´s magazine TV-AMATEUR on 
our ATV pages, they are unexpectedly popular. From all over the world I get e-mail 
replies several times a week, about 2000 visits are counted already. I am trying 
to expand the pages, which are building up a notable data base. Mostly I am asked 
for details about 23 cm ATV transmitters, I could pass on some interesting mails 
from South America if you like."
Manfred DJ1KF in Cologne utilized his close contacts to the editorial staff of the 
popular TV show "WDR Computer Club" for producing independent amateur radio web 
pages on their server (the WDR-CC hosts and editors Wolfgang Back and Wolfgang 
Rudolph pioneered the mass use of telephone mailbox services, BTX the german web 
forerunner, and Internet in Germany). In 1997 these amateur radio pages were 
expanded on a new server in Bonn to one of the first DARC district home pages and 
model for today´s DARC web services. The ATV part got some independence as AGAF 
homepage under www.yi.com/home/AGAF
After a provider bust it was then integrated into the regional DARC web service by 
the keepers DJ1KF, DO1KXL and DL4KCK. The rising visitor numbers often took it into 
the best of ten range in the DARC server statistics. For an easier access the 
unique domain www.agaf.de was aquired some years ago, and after successful 
development and testing of Digital-ATV boards by a team with Uwe DJ8DW at the 
Bergische University in Wuppertal a special support web site for this was formed 
under www.datv-agaf.de

Klaus, DL4KCK
AGAF e.V.