It has been quiet lately on the radio front. The resaon was pretty simple, the move of the shack to a new QTH>. We moved up a few stories, 6ste to be exact around 18m from street level. And yeah I now have a direct view on PI2NOS/PI6TEN/PI6HVS. We are still building, so in a…
Wij zijn Zeeland – Zenderfanaat Terhole
Mooi stuk over een zendamateur in Zeeland. Bron: Wij zijn Zeeland – Zenderfanaat Terhole (28-03-2017)
RTV Aflevering Zendmasten / Episode Antenna masts.
[English below the video] Maarten van Rossum over zendmasten. Zendmasten zijn al in de jaren dertig onderdeel van het Utrechtse landschap. Al snel na het ontstaan van de radio-omroep wordt er onderzoek gedaan naar de perfecte plek voor een centrale zendmast in Nederland. For my English friends: Radio masts are part of the Utrecht landscape…
HAM RADIO CONVENTION 2017
On November 4, 2017, the 57th Ham Radio Convention (Dag voor de RadioAmateur, DvdRA) took place in The Netherlands. Organiser is VERON, the Dutch radio society. Besides the official part, “the Radio Amateur of (last) year 2016”, supported by the Scientific Radiofonds Veder will be nominated, and several lectures will be given. The homebrew exhibition,…
LoRa TTN Sensor
I have got a new sensor as a trade for 2 RFM95W modules to add to my LoRa nodes. It’s a Humidity / Air pressure / Temperature Sensor in a nice housing made by PH2LB. The out put can be found here: JO22md This is what it looks like: Inside there is just a little…
HamTV test pattern generator
During the 2017 “Day of the Radio Amateur – DVDRA” I got my self a test pattern generator print and a box. The test pattern generator can also be found online here (scroll down). The print was an idee of Niels PE1PWB You can change the scroll-text, Call/ID, scroll-speed, background color. Of course it’s possible to…
JOTA 2017 – PG6JC/J
JOTA 2017, again a great weekend with loads of QSO’s and experiments. This year we where with 6 operators and active on 10 bands. We used a special callsign PG6JC/J. Also you can find us at qrz.com Here are some pictures:
JOTA 2017 – Solder kit
This years JOTA kit is “The Morse Phone” inspired by the “Fullerphone” The Fullerphone was devised in 1915 by then Captain (later Major General) Algernon Clement Fuller of the British Royal Corps of Signals to overcome the common use of earth induction to overhear communications in the closely packed trench warfare of World War I….
Going greener
I got my hands on a set of 2nd hand solar-panels. most of them are rotten. But i found one that works. so a “Sun”day afternoon of toying around gave me some ideas on how to move on. altho the glass is shattered it still works fine.
New storage for the antennas
It’s been a while that i posted, just been to busy. Last weekend was a big step in clearing out the shack of “keep-able junk”. Things that are in the way and i don’t want to trow away. In March i “unbuild” a garden shed from an other OM and now it was time to…
Ham Nieuws- DXpeditions
- Contest Calendar
- SKCC Sprint0000Z-0200Z, Apr 25
- Phone Fray0230Z-0300Z, Apr 25
- CWops Mini-CWT Test1300Z-1400Z, Apr 25 and 1900Z-2000Z, Apr 25 and 0300Z-0400Z, Apr 26
- 432 MHz Spring Sprint1900 local - 2300 local, Apr 25
- UKEICC 80m Contest1900Z-2000Z, Apr 25
- RSGB 80m Club Championship, Data1900Z-2030Z, Apr 26
- NCCC RTTY Sprint0145Z-0215Z, Apr 27
- NCCC Sprint0230Z-0300Z, Apr 27
- 10-10 Int. Spring Contest, Digital0001Z, Apr 28 to 2359Z, Apr 29
- SP DX RTTY Contest1200Z, Apr 28 to 1200Z, Apr 29
- Helvetia Contest1300Z, Apr 28 to 1259Z, Apr 29
- Florida QSO Party1600Z, Apr 28 to 0159Z, Apr 29 and 1200Z-2159Z, Apr 29
- BARTG Sprint 751700Z-2059Z, Apr 29
- AGCW QRP/QRP Party1300Z-1900Z, May 1
- SKCC Sprint