Biography

Contact: pe0s@ziggo.nl

Active on 160m to 70cm, all modes and digimodes.
F-licence and also in possession of the licence Marcom-A GMDSS-radio-operator.


In my career l installed, repaired, maintained and surveyed all sorts of communication equipment, radar, autopilots, GPS, cameras and computers on board sea ships.

Being schooled by the most respectable marine electronics companies in Aalborg, Hamburg and of course Rotterdam I developed more and more curiosity in operating radio equipment in stead of servicing it. So in April, 2012 I passed the test for the F-licence.

My interests are very broad, but In general I like to experiment with digital modes on the MF and HF. Having my roots in the offshore branch I mostly have my PC connected to a cloned IC-M710 marine transceiver with an automatic tuner and whip antenna.

In addition to this new found hobby, I am a volunteer with the the national lifeboat museum "Dorus Rijkers", also with the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM). I play trombone in a jazz band, Take creative photo,s like URBEX or Lichtpaint (See Flickr) and like to bike and hike.


Photo's:
Me at a V-sat installation in Durban, South Africa on board the Volvox Delta.
My small, but versatile setup in the living room.

Equipment

TRANSCEIVERS:

-ICOM IC-M710 GMDSS
-Yaesu FT-100.
-Icom IC-706MKIIG
-Kenwood TH-D72 (pe0s-7)
-Baofeng UV-5R

ANTENNAS:

-CG-3000 automatic tuner on vertical wire and whip.
-Diamond X30N.
-Turnstile antenna (own design)
-Magnetic loop antenna 18-30 MHz (own dessign)


MODEMS:

-Soundcard (own design)
-AEA DSP-2232 pactor & gateway firmware
-SCS PTC-IIex


SOFTWARE:

-ROS Modem (Wonderfull for directed testing, fun to operate)
-WSPR (soundcard software for propagation research)
-Ham Radio De Luxe (HRD), With Digital Master 780 (most soundcard digi-modes)
-Ham Radio Integrator (NMEA remote control software for de ICOM IC-M710)
-AGWPE (packet through soundcard)
-UISS (ISS APRS with AGWPE)
-Spectrum lab (soundcard software with exelent waterfall and FFT)
-WXtoImg (for NOAA weather satellite)
-UI vieuw 32 (APRS)
-APRS-IS (APRS)
-Winpack (packet)
-Airmai (pactor e-mail)
-RMS express (pactor e-mail)


ANDROID APP:

-ISS Detector (antenna aiming tool for ISS, AMSAT, NOAA, etc)
-Electro Droid (really, really handy)
-Satellite director (TV Sat)


OTHER EQUIPMENT:

-K PO SX 20 cross needle swr power meter 1.8-200 Mhz
-K PO SX 40 cross needle swr power meter 140-525 Mhz
-Diamond SX-1000 SWR power meter 1.8-160 and 430-1300Mhz
-MINI160 HF antenna analyzer 1-60 Mhz
-Procom SWR 66-470 antenna anlyzer 66 - 470 Mhz
-ACECO FC2002 frequency counter 10 hz - 3000 Mhz
-HAMEG HM1004 Oscilloscope
-Comar AIS-2-NMEA receiver
-CC308+ All-round detector 100Khz - 3000 Mhz
-Uniden Bearcat BC-120XLT portable scanner