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...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Apr 14, 2012 | HAM Blog
Just a quick follow up on my previous blog about a U shaped dipole I made and put up in my attic. I decided to make it a “Fan Dipole”. This is a dipole which has one feed point for more than one dipole. Because I’m mostly using the 20 meter band and the 10 meter band...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Mar 31, 2012 | HAM Blog
The title of this blog is a bit misleading; I’m already way past part 1 of any antenna story I have to tell. Because this is the first time I’m actually writing about it I’m gonna call it “part 1” anyway! I recently found out that, although I have a nice dipole for...
