tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77152837401858068432024-03-19T09:31:02.612+01:00Dutch 11 Mtr DX 19AT593Serious CB - 11m DX...PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-64807763739409285582020-06-08T21:24:00.000+02:002020-06-10T12:33:31.045+02:0019AT/GR Groningen province activation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From 01-06-20 Till 31-12-20 the Dutch Province Award will be on the air, 12 provinces and 1 Dutch overseas municipality (350AT/DM) Bonaire. There will be various operators on the air from some provinces with the call suffix A B C D E in total 22 stations.<br />
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19AT/GR Groningen<br />
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19AT/FR/A<br />
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19AT/FR/B Friesland<br />
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19AT/NH/A<br />
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19AT/NH/B Noord Holland<br />
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19AT/FL Flevoland<br />
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19AT/DR Drenthe<br />
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19AT/OV/A<br />
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19AT/OV/B<br />
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19AT/OV/C<br />
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19AT/OV/D<br />
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19AT/OV/E Overijssel<br />
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19AT/GL/A<br />
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19AT/GL/B<br />
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19AT/GL/C<br />
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19AT/GL/D Gelderland<br />
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19AT/UT Utrecht<br />
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19AT/ZH Zuid Holland<br />
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19AT/NB Noord Brabant<br />
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19AT/ZL Zeeland<br />
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19AT/LB Limburg<br />
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350AT/DM Island of Bonaire<br />
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A special full colour double QSL will be available. No contribution necessary, just send an email with your log and return post information at the end of the activation.<br />
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For the first second and third station to work all 22 stations on the air there will be special prizes.<br />
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QSL manager: 19at256@home.nlPE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-43711446478977387232016-12-20T23:07:00.000+01:002016-12-20T23:40:28.146+01:00Papa X-Ray Silent Key, my memories...(English & Nederlands)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">W</span></i></b>ell, I doubt if I would write this here but since it is very personal I want to share some sad news I heard from 19DX348 Henry. Johan Papa X-Ray is silent key and this is my story how we met through the years.<br />
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Who ever been into the hobby with CB radio or 27MHz / 11m you probabely heard from Papa X-Ray operator Johan. Later called 19PX or 19PX01. Johan was a avid CB DXer as long as I knew him and even before that. Johan prefered to talk to Skandinavia and had many friends there. Actually I think his antenna was almost stuck at the north direction. When I started the radiohobby I was living north of him and therefore I couldn't miss him. I was a young boy and just started DXing, we discovered how to hack our legal 22 channel CB radios and build in secret channels named "alpha" channels which actually are 5 channels that were left out of the band due to commercial use and remote controls. It was 1985 and we just discovered DX went a lot better on the quiet alpha channels. There we met Johan Papa X-Ray a friendly guy who worked DX on FM and was very interested in our efforts. I really don't know if Johan was on SSB at that time? I know for many that listened to and contacted him it was their first encounter with DX via CB radio. And he was a guy that didn't just make a average contact, he knew how to make friends and was always interested no matter what subject you talked about.<br />
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Through my 11m years I met Johan in several occasions on the radio most of the time to exchange some DX info. I remember he gave me info on a polish guy active on the alpha channels. This polish station went portable into the mountains to just make contacts to the free world, imagine this was before the fall of the Berlin wall and CB was strictly forbidden in eastern european communist countries like Poland. Of course I was able to make the contact and so this was a first for me to Poland (1987). Sometimes I didn't hear Johan for a long time. I never met him on the UK-FM channels although I understand now he was active there like me talking DX to his friends in the UK. At a certain time another radiofriend called me that Johan was traveling through Finland and was staying at a friends home over there using his station. I went upstairs to my shack and turned the beam north and surprisingly we could make a good QSO in which he told me he was visiting as many 11m stations in Finland he spoke with from the Netherlands as possible. I think he had the time of his life! Johan was not chasing DXCC or just chatting (ragchewing) what most of the 11m DX operators are doing, he was visiting his friends through radio and especially loved sporadic-E propagation in his favorite direction. Not that he didn't like the DX as I remember I was listening when he made a QSO with a New Zealand station for the first time. I remember he was thrilled about the magic his radiosignal travelled to a station on the other side of the world. And again he didn't only talk to the station but asked him for his e-mail address to discuss the whole QSO later and to make another friend.<br />
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Years later that same radiofriend that informed me about Johan being in Finland (Bert, ex 19AT141) asked me if I would like to come with him and visit Johan. As far as I know that was the first time I met him personally, I think it was in 1997. He was then living near the city centre of Groningen. Of course I knew were he lived as you couldn't miss the huge 3 element beam on top of the house and it was near my school at that time. Now I discovered Johan was also a shortwave listener preferable SW pirates around the 45m band and music (LP) collector. I was very much into the rockgroup Genesis at that time and I remember he was always very interested and told me he remembered Genesis playing in Groningen in 1975. Not shure he was at that concert. But he was at other concerts and told he even filmed some of the old supergroups (Yes, Camel, Caravan?). Well as a young guy I was impressed.<br />
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I think around the year 1999 I discovered Johan moved to another house in a village near me. Luckely we now both had e-mail and since I was not so active on 11m anymore we contacted each other regulary exchanging e-mails about several topics. I sometimes called him by phone if I thought he should know things of interest imidiatly.<br />
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Johan and I shared the love for some music, not everything, but we shared the love for progressive rock and especially Genesis and Porcupine Tree. Johan was the only person I knew he liked their music even before I discovered it. And there it was, in 2003 a concert from PT in the Oosterpoort Groningen city. I called Johan, but I remember he didn't answer the phone. So I wrote him via e-mail and luckely in time he responded. We agreed we go together and rembering his story.....Johan was mad enough to bring his huge video8 camera. I don't know how we got the thing through security but we did. I really don't know what people thought when Johan was walking through the audience with this huge camera in front of the stage to film frontman Steven Wilson and his band. I brought a minidisc recorder with me to record the whole concert audio and captured Johan's voice when security ordered him to hand over his camera after he did make several video shots. I will always remember him when I listen to this concert again :-). Johan got his camera back, although the videos were not erased the quality was very bad. It was more the thrill of doing such a mad thing. We enjoyed the concert of course and had many laughs afterwards.<br />
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When I had everything working radiowise in 2006 Johan asked me if he could visit me to view the new shack. And of course he did. He did took some photos for himself and me which I still have. I regret I didn't ask him to pose in my shack. But fortunate he has send me photos from his own shack which looks very professional. I asked him in several ocassions if he would like to be a licensed radio operator but Johan told me he was not interested in the technical things that you have to know for doing the exams. We moved again in 2008 and the contact was almost lost. I met Johan a few times on the radio when listening on 11m. And we exchanged e-mail addresses again. We met sometimes when he visited me on my job. When I was in his village for my job I met hime once, last time I think was in 2013. Of course we e-mailed a couple of times in a year to discuss latest hobby things and music, he told me he always wanted to visit my new shack and new home again. Then a couple of months ago Henry told me Johan was at a hospice in Groningen city. That is not a good sign, Johan was very ill. And unfortunately he died last Friday.<br />
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So unfortunate we had not that much contact anymore lately but the remembrance is good!<br />
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Papa X-Ray will always be missed but not forgotten...<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">I</span></i></b>k heb even getwijfeld of ik op mijn amateurradio blog wat zou gaan schrijven, maar omdat het erg persoonlijk is toch maar besloten om het te doen. Tenslotte is dit blog ook een soort openbaar archief van mij. Ik wil een droevig bericht delen dat ik te horen kreeg van Henry 19DX348. Johan Papa X-Ray is silent key en dit is mijn verhaal hoe wij elkaar door de jaren heen rond de hobby ontmoeten. Johan had geen licentie maar was wel een echte radioamateur. Tenslotte maakt het allemaal niet uit of je een papiertje hebt om op bepaalde banden te zenden. Dat bewijst eigenlijk helemaal niets....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Johan's house as found on google maps,<br />
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Degenen die op de 27MC, CB/11 meter zijn gestart met de hobby hebben misschien wel eens van Papa X-Ray gehoord, later bekend als 19PX en 19PX01. Johan was een fanatiek 27MC DXer zolang ik hem heb gekend en zelfs daarvoor. Hij had vooral voorkeur te praten met stations uit Skandinavië en had er erg veel vrienden. Ik denk zelfs dat zijn antenne soms gewoon vastzat richting noord. Toen ik met de radiohobby begon woonde ik te noorden van hem en dus kon ik hem eigenlijk niet missen. Ik was een jonge kerel en net begonnen met DXen met onze 22 kanalen FM bakkies, We kwamen er achter dat je wat extra kanaaltjes genaamd "alfa" kanalen kon krijgen door een simpele ingreep. Deze 5 kanalen zitten tussen de kanalen in en waren bedoeld voor commercieel gebruik zoals afstandsbedieningen. In 1985 waren we met wat vrienden net begonnen met DXen en dat ging natuurlijk perfect op die rustige alfa kanalen. Daar kwamen we dus al gauw Papa X-Ray Johan tegen, een vriendelijke man die veel FM DX werkte en erg geïnteresseerd was in onze DX ervaringen. Geen idee of Johan toen aktief was in SSB? Ik weet dat voor velen die naar hem luisterden het de eerste kennismaking was met DXen op 27MC. En hij was dan ook niet iemand die snel even een contactje deed, hij wist gewoon hoe je vrienden maakte en was altijd geïnteresseerd in wat voor onderwerp je het ook over had.<br />
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In de jaren dat ik erg aktief was op 27MC kwam ik Johan vaak tegen meestal hadden we wel even een QSO en deelden dan ook even de laatste DX nieuwtjes. Ik kan me herinneren dat hij me op een keer informatie gaf over een Pools station dat aktief was op de alfa kanalen. Deze jongen ging de bergen in en werkte dan portabel om contacten te kunnen maken met de vrije wereld. Bedenk dat dit voor het vallen van de Berlijnse muur was en dat het bezit en zenden op 27MC in oost europese communistische landen streng verboden was. Uiteraard is het me op gegeven moment gelukt een contact te maken met dit Poolse station (1987). Het was tevens mijn eerste verbinding met Polen. Soms hoorde ik Johan dan weer een tijdje niet, Ik ben hem nooit tegengekomen op de engelse FM kanalen ik begrijp nu dat hij daar net als ik ook aktief was en contact hield met zijn vrienden in Engeland. Op een gegeven moment belde mij een andere radiovriend dat Johan in Finalnd was en graag met me wou spreken. Ik rende naar boven en draaide de antenne naar het noorden en ja hoor ik kon prima met Johan spreken. Hij vertelde me dat hij op reis was en zoveel mogelijk 27MC vrienden wou bezoeken als mogelijk. Volgens mij had hij de tijd van z'n leven! Johan was niet echt een landenjager (DXCC), het ging er meer om vrienden te maken, hij bezocht die vrenden dan via de radio en het liefst met sporadische-E condities in zijn lievelings richting. Niet dat hij vies van een nieuwe DXCC was. Ik weet dat ik naar hem luisterde toen hij zijn eerste contact met Nieuw Zeeland maakte hij was echt zeer blij verrast over het feit dat hij met zijn signaal te horen was aan de andere kant van de wereld. En natuurlijk vroeg hij het station om een e-mail adres zodat hij later het QSO nog eens kon "bespreken" en er vervolgens weer een vriend bij had.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuNb-xOzl5B9IRFQYzl1M52mjh0L3c-0zesMXfrsW0vh0lxIiAHXaNxHUVlTLsbJUAz98LIVyC0s0jS6mIC_y30_sa6zIXsuxqi0Cpa4GIuDeo9U9haXD9kQDtQVCNj3kD_mRt-pldxva/s1600/px+qsl+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuNb-xOzl5B9IRFQYzl1M52mjh0L3c-0zesMXfrsW0vh0lxIiAHXaNxHUVlTLsbJUAz98LIVyC0s0jS6mIC_y30_sa6zIXsuxqi0Cpa4GIuDeo9U9haXD9kQDtQVCNj3kD_mRt-pldxva/s320/px+qsl+back.jpg" width="320" /></a>Jaren later belde dezelfde radiovriend (Bert, ex 19AT141) mij om te vragen of ik zin had om mee te<br />
gaan om bij hem op bezoek te gaan. Dat was de eerste keer dat ik hem persoonlijk ontmoette. Natuurlijk wist ik al lang waar hij woonde aan de rand van het centrum van de stad Groningen in een oud hoog pand waarop een joekel van een 3 elements beam stond ik weet nog dat het vlakbij mijn school was en ik er vaak langs kwam om dan elke keer weer met bewondering naar de antenne te kijken. Ik denk dat het rond 1997 was en ik ontdekt nu dat Johan een verfent kortegolf luisteraar was vooral van de kortegolf piraten stations rond de 45m band. Johan verzamelde ook muziek (LP's) en vertelde over zijn avonturen bij bezoeken aan concerten. Ik was op dat moment nogal erg fan van Genesis en hij wist nog dat Genesis in Groningen optrad in 1975, geen idee of hij dat concert had bezocht. Wel vertelde hij mij dat hij zelfs gefilmd had bij concerten van de oude supergroepen als Yes, Camel, Caravan etc. Dat maakte behoorlijk indruk op mij als jonge vent...<br />
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Ik denk rond 1999 ontdekte ik dat Johan was verhuist naar een dorpje vlakbij mij. We hadden nu gelukkig e-mail en omdat ik niet zo heel aktief meer was op 27MC schreven we elkaar regelmatig om dat weer van alles uit te wisselen. Ik belde hem soms of hij mij als we dachten dat de ander bepaalde dingen direct moest weten.<br />
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Johan en ik deelden de interesse voor bepaalde muziek, niet alles maar wel progressieve rock van Genesis en Porcupine Tree. Johan was de enige die ik kende die deze muziek al ontdekt had voordat ik ik er ook maar van gehoord had. En daar was het, PT gaf een concert in de Oosterpoort Groningen in 2003. Ik belde Johan om te vragen of hij zin had om mee te gaan en herinner me nog goed dat ik hem niet te pakken kreeg. Gelukkig reageerde hij net op tijd op mijn e-mail en we besloten samen te gaan. Uiteraard kon Johan niet gaan zonder zijn oude video8 camera. Ik heb geen idee hoe we deze door de beveiliging kregen? Ik weet ook niet wat de concert bezoekers dacht toen Johan daar met die gigantisch video8 camera voor het podium zanger Steven Wilson en band stond te filmen. Zelf had ik een kleine minidisc recorder meegenomen en zo heb ik de opname van Johans stem toen de beveiliging hem netjes vroeg zijn camera in te leveren. Ik zal altijd aan hem denken als ik het concert weer luister :-) Johan kreeg zijn camera terug maar de opnames waren erg slecht ondanks dat ze niet gewist waren. Het was meer het avontuur om zoiets geks te doen en we hebben er achteraf veel plezier over gehad. Uiteraard hebben we verder genoten van het concert...<br />
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Nadat ik weer verhuist was en in 2006 de shack en antennemast voor elkaar had vroeg Johan of hij een keer langs kon komen. Natuurlijk kon dat en dus was hij er een keer op een zondagmiddag. Uiteraard werden er een paar foto's gemaakt voor zichzelf en mij en deze heb ik nog steeds, Jammergenoeg heb ik hem toen niet gevraagd om zelf te poseren in mijn shack. Maar gelukkig heeft hij me ook nog een paar foto's gestuurd van zijn huis en shack die er best wel profi uitzag. Ik heb Johan vaak gevraagd of hij het niet zag zitten zijn licentie te halen maar hij gaf aan geen interesse te hebben in het technische deel dat men nodig heeft om examen te doen. Wij verhuisden weer in 2008 en daarna heb ik een tijdje weinig contact met Johan gehad. Ik ontmoette hem af en toe op de radio als ik weer eens naar de 27MC luisterde en soms bracht hij me een bezoekje op het werk. Uiteraard hebben we elkaars e-mail adressen weer uitgewisseld en hielden we zo weer wat contact waarin we de laatste radio nieuwtjes en muziek uitwisselden. De laatste keer dat ik hem zag was denk ik in 2013 toen ik voor mijn werk in Warffum moest zijn en hem ergens daar op straat tegenkwam. Hij liet me weten graag weer eens langs te komen om te zien waar ik nu woonde en hoe ik nu de shack had, Helaas is het er niet van gekomen. Een paar maanden geleden liet Henry me weten dat Johan in een gasthuis in het centrum van Groningen zat, dat klonk niet goed. Het bleek dat Johan ernstig ziek was en wij hadden al het idee dat jij niet lang meer zou leven, Afgelopen vrijdag is hij helaas overleden.<br />
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Het is spijtig dat we de laatste tijd niet erg veel contact meer met elkaar hadden maar de herinneringen leven nog en zijn goed!<br />
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Papa X-ray zal altijd gemist worden maar nooit vergeten,,,,<br />
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Nog wat extra links over Johan:<br />
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<a href="https://simonthewizard.com/2016/12/19/papa-x-ray-holland-is-silent-key/" target="_blank">https://simonthewizard.com/2016/12/19/papa-x-ray-holland-is-silent-key/</a><br />
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En een bezoek van een andere vriend van Johan aan hem kortgeleden:<br />
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<a href="https://radiotrefpunt.nl/2016/10/08/hans-knot-herinneringen-ophalen-samen-met-johan-munstra/" target="_blank">https://radiotrefpunt.nl/2016/10/08/hans-knot-herinneringen-ophalen-samen-met-johan-munstra/</a><br />
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My own blogpost a while ago:<br />
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<a href="http://19at593.blogspot.nl/2011/11/video-my-good-cb-friends-bert-and-johan.html">http://19at593.blogspot.nl/2011/11/video-my-good-cb-friends-bert-and-johan.html</a></div>
PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-17063543820259376772016-02-26T12:41:00.001+01:002016-02-26T12:41:18.067+01:00A cycle within the solar cycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>E</b></i></span>veryone knows the sunspot cycle. A cycle that is there with a timespan of about 11 years. The amount of sunspots gives you an idea of propagation on the 11m HF band. Anything around 100 or above is good. At the moment we just had a peak of suncycle 24 and sunspots are going down. With the decline of cycle 23 back in 2004/2005 I already noticed another cycle. It is the rotation of the sun in about 27 days. That could mean that "good" or actually better propagation is appearing every 27-28 days as well as any active sunspots will appear again within that time. This can especially be noticed when in the solarcycle minimum. I've been searching for this phenomenon on the internet but only little can be found. Though I noticed it several times through the low sunspot years and others probabely did as well. But it is not known by many 11m radio operators.<br />
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Last week around 15-16 Feb. I had several QSOs with 43 div. (Australia) and 153 div. (Thailand). The week before I managed to talk to 2 (USA) , 5 (Venezuela) and 347 (Curacao). At the moment propagation is low. But I expect some better propagation next week.<br />
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Find the 12 provinces from the Netherlands on the 11m band and work them all for a nice QSL card.<br />
The provinces are active during the month February.<br />
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QSL manager is 19AT256 Twan, NO Contribution & SAE needed!<br />
Only send your LOGSHEET and your COMPLETE QSL address via email to 19AT256@home.nl<br />
You will RX the QSL confirmation 100%.<br />
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Personally I will be active as 19AT/GRPE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-40521060538002726192015-09-30T11:07:00.001+02:002015-09-30T11:07:19.150+02:001/2 wave vertical experiment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Difficult to see, and not clear in the description is the wire that is soldered on the second winding from the bottom of the coil the the center pin of the PL connector.<br />
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Due to the low height I think the impedance is a bit high. SWR is nice. lowest 1.2:1. From channel 1 to 40 it is lower as 1,7:1. Good enough. I used 13 Mtr ecoflex 10 low loss coax in this test.<br />
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A fast test with my only CB radio left did show good receive from stations around.<br />
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It was a nice and fast experiment and it worked out of the box. A really simple and reproducable design to make a nice antenna out of nothing actually. It could be as simple as a tranceiver, a piece of wire and coax cable, in fact that's al you need to get on the air,<br />
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I decided to sell one of my good old CB radios. The Midland Alan 58E. I've had a couple of 40 channel legal CB's in the past but this one was definitely the top. Sharp receive and good audio, always without a glitch.Used it mainly for packetradio in the past. I sold it to a young guy in the neighbourhood and helped him to make a antenna inside his shack from copperwire. Excellent! And very special to see that young people can still be interested in CB. I still got a spare 58E now which is in use at the job place. We had a idea to equip some trucks with CBs a couple of years ago to say hello once and a while. But till now we never installed one.PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-31183469492162292322014-07-05T22:47:00.000+02:002014-07-05T22:47:03.549+02:00338AT/DX QSL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been a long time ago that I actually worked a new DXCC on 11m. I currently have 252 DXCC <br />
worked and the higher that number the more exclusive are the DXCC to be worked. Today I had some time to try for 338AT/DX which is currently active from Marquesas Isl. I saw him spotted on cluster.dk but he was not audible before the greyline. Then suddenly his signal came in but I had a lot of QRM (PLC?) and he was just audible. With the help of some 11m friends I finally got him confirmed and he reported RS33. I hope to get his QSL, it would be a nice add for my DXCC QSL collection. I worked 51RC/DX on backscatter as well today. Not a new DXCC but a nice one to work as you don't hear Andorra every day.<br />
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PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-43910045718144750762012-04-15T22:29:00.002+02:002012-04-15T22:29:50.698+02:00Old times!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Found this card on <a href="http://www.qslkaarten.nl/">http://www.qslkaarten.nl/</a>. It's from a radiofriend at the island of Schiermonnikoog who was already a famous CB DXer when I begun with SSB radio. At the time I was very active on DX there were only stories about him. But later I met him on air and even visited him on the island. He has <a href="http://pe2km.miedweb.nl/index.php/frontend/the-cb-years.html">a nice story on his website about his CB years</a>.PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-75041172698841800592012-04-06T22:12:00.001+02:002020-06-08T21:51:19.283+02:00Best classic CB movie ever<br />
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Unfortunately this video has been removed. I'm talking about the 1977 movie "Citiziens Band" Handle With Care. The scene handles about an old man, father of the lead roll player. He does have a miserable live and sleeps in front of his radio. The only thing that wakes him up is when his CB radio buddies are calling him...</center>
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If anyone had that scene please let me know.... email: seb593@yahoo.com</center>
PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-27129121530257030842012-01-25T21:36:00.001+01:002012-03-28T21:02:33.446+02:00Old photos from the shack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">I</span></i> found some old photos from the shack. This one has been taken in 1990 the year that I became a member of the Alfa Tango DX group. It shows the old type President Jackson as my DX radio. I still have some parts and use them like the SWR/power meter from GC Electronics. I don't know why I was not using the old Turner +3B at that time. But remember it was broken for a short time. Mike is a Ham Master 4200 which did a excellent job as well. The Jackson was sold after a second visit of the dutch FCC ( they couldn't find the radio). It has been replaced several years later by a President Lincoln.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The antennas on my parents house in 1990. Vertical is a Solarcon A-99 and horizontal 2 element beam is a HB9CV which was homemade. When I removed the A-99 around the year 2000 the glassfiber was completely worn and it was a miracle it was still on the mast. The HB9CV had been replaced by another HB9CV which elements were welded on the boom, I do have pictures from it somewhere. Only used it for 2 years or so. Later the mast was used to support a GP for an automatic packetradio relay station (CB8PTB) which was operating legally.</span>PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-91122387009151131192011-11-25T15:05:00.001+01:002011-11-25T15:05:46.540+01:00CQ 266 div. KiribatiLong time ago!
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A week ago I found my old DNT walkytalky on the attic. It has been there for years and the accupack was broken. All connections were green of corrossion and the batteries itself leaking. So I made a new one from some 1,2V 2600mAh reacharables. I think this is a special and so a collection item as it seems it is part of a Michael Schumacher CB radio series. Now the only problem is the LCD channel readout, it has been leaking as well and the readout is not complete.<br />
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<br />PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-36016474978334014102011-09-14T20:40:00.002+02:002011-09-15T15:26:56.489+02:00VCO modification<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Long time ago I was in the possession of a NATO 2000 CB radio. It was a unique radio as it offers UK channels besides several bands of 40 channels. It was also a all mode radio and probabely illigal to use. Anyway, the radio got a problem from one day at the other. Receive and transmit refused to work after about 5 minutes of use. I had sleepless nights about this problem as no one could tell me how to solve it. Since I had a manual to repair cybernet radios (this was one) I could measure some voltages and since I got no reading of those of the VCO I thought it was a defective voltage regulator. But after replacing it everything was the same, nothing changed. Replacing several caps besides to VCO that I did not trust didn't do the trick either.<br />
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So it must be the VCO block. Luckely I had a neigbour station who had a radio with the same cybernet print, the radio came from a car that was driven into water. But according to him the VCO was still intact as it is watertight. I replaced the VCO block with that one and the problem was solved. Years later I found this modification in a dutch magazine called CB Radio. I thought it could be handy to scan the article and place it on the internet.<br />
<br />PE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715283740185806843.post-86564115088985669552011-07-05T22:09:00.000+02:002011-07-05T22:09:12.068+02:00Dutch 11 Mtr / CB DX radio 19AT593Not yet there. But in the future will try to make some of this blog. 73, SebastiaanPE4BAS, Bashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12958141238330445285noreply@blogger.com0