Error on importing key

[Holger Schulz]

I'm trying to inport a public key. It look s like

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>

[...]

-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

I get the following message, which I do not understand:

[theomobil:~] kuddel% gpg --import joe.asc
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3a skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2d skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3c skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3a skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 2e skipped
gpg: invalid radix64 character 3e skipped
gpg: CRC error; 91ddaf - b87e73
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=55)
gpg: read_block: read error: invalid packet
gpg: import from `joe.asc' failed: invalid keyring
gpg: Total number processed: 0
[theomobil:~] kuddel%

Can anyone give me a hint? Thanks. Can I get answers via CC? Thanks

I'm using gpg 1.0.6 with MacOS X 10.1.5

Details

[theomobil:~] kuddel% gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, 
TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
[theomobil:~] kuddel%