by Cees (PA1CA) | Aug 10, 2014 | HAM Blog, Technology
I got a new website; www.ft817.eu ! I like the Yaesu FT-817nd so much that I decided to make a separate website for it! For now it is just full of YouTube movies about the FT-817nd and a few of my blog entries. In the end the site will just have lots of stuff about...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Aug 3, 2014 | HAM Blog, portable operations, Technology
A few years ago there was a rumor going around that a new version of the Yaesu ft-817 would come on the market “pretty soon”. This new model would be called the Yaesu FT-818. The FT-817nd has been the favorite of many radio amateurs for as long as it...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Jul 29, 2014 | HAM Blog
I became a member of the DX Century Club or DXCC! This is an amateur radio award earned by making a distant contact (called DX), with 100 or more geographic entities (“countries”) around the world. The difficulty is not in making contacts with 100 or more entities,...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Jul 1, 2014 | HAM Blog, portable operations, Technology
I got another one; the Baofeng UV-3r+! On a rainy Sunday afternoon, after browsing a bit on internet I went to this Chinese website that sells HAM radio stuff. I already bought a few small transmitters there and some other stuff and I decided to get another one of...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Jun 30, 2014 | Contesting, HAM Blog, Rules
In my previous post I spoke about the conversation I had on Sunday with the King of Spain. Some people asked me what we talked about and if we had a nice conversation. Because this was a radio amateur contest the talk we had was very short but friendly. To give you an...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Jun 29, 2014 | HAM Blog
Today I was again in a HAM Radio contest; the Concurso S.M. El Rey de España SSB (the King of Spain contest). I haven’t done many contests this year so I decided that it was time again for this! It gave me an opportunity to test all my antennas again and...
