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Apr 01 2012
Half way to my first DXCC certificate
Today, when logging in to the LoTW application, I saw that I’ve reached 50 DXCC’s confirmed. Thanks to YL2QV for confirming our RTTY QSO on 20 meters. Half way there to obtain my first DXCC certificate. Still missing some ‘easy’ countries like Belgium, etc. My goal is to obtain 100 confirmed DXCC entities in LoTW before …
Mar 27 2012
New expansion: Icom IC-92D
Today I’ve bought a second hand Icom IC-92D handheld tranceiver to discover the D-Star protocol. The local hamshop, RYS, had a trade. This set is very complete, with Icom software, bag, GPS speakermike, interface cable with the original boxes supplied. Good to see the previous owner was carefully and neatly with his equipment! The Amsterdam D-Star …
Mar 04 2012
My first certificate
When I’ve just logged in to my eqsl.cc account I saw a certificate was waiting for me, to confirm 2-way QSO’s with 25 country’s. Well, thanks for that. I hope the next one will be the DXCC-100 certificate to confirm I’ve worked 100+ country’s. Currently the counter is on 75 countries with 36 confirmed. Hereby …
Feb 24 2012
Some new DXCC’s
I’ve worked some new DXCC’s this week, when active with PSK31. One of them is Israel, which was still missing. Good to see the 10 meter band is somewhat open now. This is the only HF band I can work, without having noise. On the 20 meter band the noise level is about S5 and …
Feb 15 2012
First JT65 QSO
Although I’ve listened and looked at received signals with the JT65 mode, this afternoon I had my first ever JT65 QSO (using QRP of course) with F6DKQ on 14.076MHz. I used the JT65-HF package with the simplified interface for HF QSOs. It worked a treat. It took a time for me to figure out the …
Feb 12 2012
PACC contest 2012
Last weekend the Dutch PACC contest was held. I’ve worked for several hours. Saturday from 15.45 till 19.45 (CET) and Sunday from 9.00 till 12.00 CET. Too bad the 10-meter band was closed. I’ve worked 67 stations on the 20 and 40-meter band. All QSO’s where quite local in Europe ans Asiatic Russia. The only …
Feb 09 2012
What is Logbook of The World?
Logbook of The World – LoTW – is an exciting way for Radio Amateurs to confirm two-way contacts they have made and use the confirmations as credit toward various awards. Because Logbook of The World uses double blind comparison, users cannot see what other users have uploaded unless there is a matched QSO. All files uploaded to …
Sep 01 1997
Welcome
I’m Randy, a 40-year old ham living in Amersfoort, which is located about 25 miles east from Amsterdam. Licensed since aged 17 (1997) and active on all bands from 160 meters up till 3cm tough VHF, UHF and SHF are prefered in (SSB) voice, ATV, CW and weak-signal/DIGI modes. On the day to day job …
