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Who is PA0BAK
Born in 1952 and at the age of 19 I obtained my "transmitting license" in 1972, the declaration of competence for the construction and operation of a radio-electrical transmitting device.Then I purchased a Semcoset STT4 transmitter print with a crystal for 144.750MHz, so it was cq and then turns from 144 to 146 for possible calls.
At that time, most amateurs had a crystal-controlled transmitter on a frequency for which a crystal had been found by chance, the transmitters also worked with AM.
As a child, like my father, I was already interested in technology and electronics. My father was later with the first batch of "Novice" amateurs in 1975 (PD0AAE) and was shortly thereafter, in 1976, the first with a PE1 call (PE1AAA).
After my school days and a company training I started working at an electronics parts store, where I gained a lot of knowledge of parts and components.
In addition to many private individuals, various companies were also customers of this parts store.
One of the customers was a small but progressive company in telecommunications, which worked with Philips mobile phones and developed and manufactured options and peripherals in-house.
As a radio amateur, that was of course a great challenge, when the owner said he was looking for staff, that was great for me.
After a number of years, the company was unfortunately closed down, investments had been made, for which the municipality stood surety, but a little later the municipality wanted to postpone everything for one year.
The entire company capital had been invested, there was no more money, and the doors were closed.
Partly because of my experience with wireless telecommunications, I was immediately able to find a job at a large company in that field, where I stayed for over 30 years.
As a radio amateur, the fun of the hobby disappeared, it increasingly started to look like work.
Instead, I started to concern myself (even more) with computers.
For CP/M I have created or rewritten various programs, such as a Viewdata host and an RTTY BBS.
Later came PCs and packet radio, after which I pulled the plug on ham radio and devoted myself entirely to Linux and OpenSource software.
After my retirement I started again as a ham radio operator, but a lot had changed in the intervening period.
| My Station | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bands | Transceiver | Antenne |
| VHF/UHF | Midland CT-3000 =Anytone AT_778uv =Retevis RT-95 | Omnidirectional vertical op 6m hoogte. |
| VHF/UHF | Baofeng UV-82 portofoon | |
| VHF | Yaesu FT-1 portofoon | |
| HF | Yaesu FT-710 | 20m end fed with a coil for 80m at 6m/1m height. |
| HF | Yaesu FTDX-10 | Folded dipole 2x 23m at 6m/2m height, with symetric feeders. |
| HF | Xiegu G90 | does not work in (too) warm environments and cannot tolerate strong signals. |
I make most connections with FT-8, with 10 Watt and a low antenna I can do nicely there.
regarding the HF antenna, I have a number of designs that I would like to try out, the field days etc. are ideal for that (for me).
The above may be confusing, but I try to avoid names as much as possible, be chronological and still write what I want.