PA3C (before: PA3CPL en PE1DGF), located in Drenthe/Netherlands. Working VHF for over 30 years now (tropo, ES, no MS-EME). Interested in HF since 2006 and improving the station every day, especially SSB/CW. RTTY-PSK not (yet) my piece of cake.
Now using
- 4 ele SteppIR with 6m option (6-20m) on a crank-up tower max 15m asl. My base level is – 0,60 (minus 60 cm’s!)
- D40 with 30m trap built for howtodoityourself see http://www.dx.nl/pf5x/previous-news.html
- verticals for 40m, 80m and 160m. This setup is only valid in the winter because I use the grass next to my house and in the summer there are cows who don’t have a ham-license.
- 2,5 WL on 2 meter/144 MHz, 15m above ground.
Pictures of my SteppIR building project on http://picasaweb.google.nl/aartw99/SteppirBouwen
set on HF: TS-2000 with DRU-3 (saves a lot of energy in the pile-up), PA Expert 1K-FA release 3 running 600-1000 Watts.
set on 2m: also TS-2000 with PA Beko about 400W, preamp.
CW/FSK is most time made with Microham Microkeyer II, CW sometimes by hand (Bencher).
For software I use N1MM for contesting and DXlab for DXCC/award management and qsl management. Interface N1MM-DXK by LA0FA, working perfectly in my network (2 laptops).
Qsl via LOTW for DXCC preferred, Eqsl(AG) for WAZ and bureau OK reply 100%. Now using Globalqsl for qsl-ing.
Full log at http://www.clublog.org/logsearch/PA3C, you can ask for qsl there too (OQRS).
member of PI4GN (VHF-UHF-SHF) contestgroup.
Calls: OE/PA3CPL F/PA3CPL TK/PA3CPL 3A2/PA3CPL CE0Y/PA3C PJ4/PA3C
Expeditions:
in many Europe countries on VHF/UHF
XR0Y Easter Island (2009)
PJ4/PA3C (Feb. 2011)
I twitter on http://twitter.com/aartw, sometimes DX, sometimes something else.
73, Aart PA3C
