by Cees (PA1CA) | Oct 13, 2012 | HAM Blog
I made another antenna; a 70cm Quad antenna, and it works like a charm! The “bad” thing about quads is that they are full wavelength antenna’s, which in HF normally means; LONG ANTENNAS! The “good” thing in this case is that a full...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Oct 2, 2012 | HAM Blog
I got my new call sign! After thinking a lot about it I chose PA1CA. There are a few reasons for this. First of all; I’m used to the suffix; 1CA, because my old call sign was PD1CA. When trying to call someone in a pileup you often just repeat your...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Sep 13, 2012 | HAM Blog
After studying for 2 months I decided to do the exam for the Full Radio Amateur License and I passed it!!! This licence compares to the extra license in the USA and is just the highest license you can get when you’re a radio amateur. Now I can use my license in...
by Cees (PA1CA) | May 1, 2012 | HAM Blog, Popular
After buying my new (secondhand) Yaesu FT-950 base transceiver I knew I again wanted to do the wideband mod. This is the same mod I did for the Yaesu FT-817 some time ago; I wrote about it in another blog entry. Because the FT-950 is much larger than the FT-817 I...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Apr 21, 2012 | HAM Blog
So after I made my new antenna (described in the previous blogs) I found out that I can hear a lot more stations. With this there also are a lot of stations I don’t want to hear; these are the stations on the frequencies near you that are to strong or are just using...
