Tag: Miscellaneous

Posted on
by

PACCEvery Dutch radio amateur who loves to DX just a little bit, is putting everything in place for this weekend. Some ham’s polishing their keyers at home. Some hams are putting up just another wire to be able to work that special band. Others are joining in groups and use a piece of farming land to put up antenna’s and gathering together in sheds to join the dx-party!
Saturday 14th of februari on 14:00 hrs local time (12:00 UTC) all PA-PH-hams will fire up their rigs to work as many countries as possible in the PACC 2009!

I will visit this weekend a few hams in the center of the Netherlands. Maybe I’m gonna make a few QSO’s myself. Of course pictures and experiences will be posted asap!

Posted on
by

In an earlier post I’ve talked about QSL-cards. My conclusion is that the good old QSL-card still is a fun thing to exchange and I don’t want to get rid off yet.
The problem is, I still never had one printed. When I got my novice license back in 2003 I never made any QSO’s because I was living in an apartment at the time without any antenna-possibilities.
Since 2007 I was able to put up an antenna and made my first DX-QSO’s. But then I was already studying for my full license. So it would be a little weird to print out QSL-cards with my novice call. I felt that would be like bad luck…
So when I finally got my full license last year, it was time to let print some!
I’d asked around a bit what is a good company to let print QSL-cards.
Seems to be ON5UR is a radio amateur in Belgium who is a printer and a specialist in printing QSL-cards! So I send him some pictures and idea’s and he send back this very cool design! I did let him print 1000 of these. If you want one, catch me on the bands!

Posted on
by

About two weeks ago someone from the club approached me. If I wanted to join the morse training. Since I don’t know morse yet (it isn’t a requirement for a full license in here), I thought it is a pretty nice experience!

After two lessons I can decode the characters A – J. So I still have a long way to go, but it is fun! Every day I practice for half an hour. Hopefully I be able to make a QSO in morse soon 😉