PE1RDP - Arno
Hi
radio-friends,
After
almost 11 years “hibernation” (1969-1980) I started with the
radio hobby as a 10 years old boy. The first steps were made by
listen on HF with an old tube radio which my grandmother give
me. I received a lot of stations and I was very happy to hear
stations like Voice of America, Radio Moscow, Radio South
Africa, Radio Australia. DX has begun.
In the
Netherlands, the CB band was also legal to use since March 1980
with 22 channels and 0.5Watt in FM only. But this band was very
popular and I was QRV also. In the summer I was very surprised
to hear stations from whole over Europe. And it was even
possible to make qso’s! This was my first experience with
sporadic-E.
A real HF
receiver was bought, a lot of antennas were installed and QSL
cards from all over the world were received. Yes: radio was my
greatest hobby and as NL-10141, I listened to HAMs all over the
world.
In the
early 90s packet radio became very popular and I was one of the
first stations in my region who was QRV with 1200 baud on CB
(again). This was nice for some years but this CB band became
too popular and I decided to quit packet radio on CB.
Now I was
qrv on 144MHz and 432MHz in all mode. So DX via tropo,
meteorscatter and satellites. This was also DX but I was still
working on a even bigger challenge: EME or Moonbounce. So using
the oldest and only natural earth’s satellite for communication:
the moon.
It was
around 1985 when I read about EME for the first time. But EME in
these days was very difficult and only a few hams were able to
be qrv via the moon. As a 15 year old boy, this was not in my
reach but I never stop trying to make my dream come true:
working EME.
After a
lot of experiments, building antennas, preamps, it was in the
summer of 2002. K1JT has launched his software WSJT with a new
digital EME mode JT44. With this mode, EME was now in reach for
QRP stations and in August 2002, I made my first EME qso with
I2FAK on 144MHz!
In 2004 I
moved to my new QTH with room for more antennas and I build a
new EME station. A lot of stations were work very easy on
144MHz.
At this
moment (January 2009) I’m qrv on 432MHz. Please visit my webpage
for more information. Skeds are welcome.
Hope to
work you and best 73!
Arno –
PE1RDP – Veldhoven – JO21QK
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