Biography

Club: Member of Radioclub Waasland, ON6WL Section WLD - UBA.

Since my childhood, I was fascinated by HAM radios which became a guideline throughout the years and which was fed by 'uncle' Honoré - ON7BG.
Like many, it all started in the beginning of the eighties with the purchase of a CB device by which I could reach a few friends in the neighborhood. 'Uncle' Honoré regularly urged me to go for my license, but it never happened. Some time later, 'uncle' Honoré had fine tuned my antenna, and not much later I started doing DX on the 11m band in the mid-1980s. Soon I heard and could talk to people from different countries. A station from Cananda answers my call, even a station from Brazil, my furthest ever. What a time... In 1986 I did my military service and extinguished the hobby a bit out, although I really liked to listen with 'uncle' Honoré to stations from distant countries. Not much later my radio ended up in a closet.

In the early nineties I regularly visited 'uncle' Honoré to listen to different HAM stations from all over the world. In the meantime I had a different occupation and I ended up between a few WW2 Veterans of Popski's Private Army, the smallest irregular unit of the British army, who were active far behind the enemy lines in Africa, Italy and Austria, and of which the commander was a Belgian. A few of those PPA veterans told me stories about how they send with morse code strategic goals with their WS19 set to Allied fighter pilots. About their way of signaling and their secret code language, etc ... 'Uncle' Honoré, who himself was an avid signaller, found this quite pleasant and he learned me the principles of the Morce code. Anyway 'uncle' Honoré, in one way or another, started to make me back warm to the radio happenings. But it has not become, a young family, children, etc ... At the beginning of 2010 I still regularly visited 'uncle' Honoré and we sat sometime for hours behind his radios. I listened to how he made contacts with distant destinations and enjoyed our evenings. He taught me many things and said that it was an art to work a station as far as possible with less power as possible, a blissful time.

Time went on and in April 2014 everything fell silent. 'Uncle' Honoré suddenly became 'Silent Key ON7BG'. Afterwards I missed the nice evenings, listening to HAM stations from all over the world. It did not take long before I took my earlier devices and listening not much later again to the radio happen. At the end of 2017 I want not just listen, I wanted to talk to those stations that I heard on the other side of the radio. So I passed the basic exam in Januari 2018. At the moment maybe an 'old school' boy, but with everything that 'uncle' Honoré has learned me, I try to find my way between the radio waves. Like 'uncle' Honoré always thoughtfully said; practice makes perfect....

Hope to meet you further down the log or even on another band.

QSL Info:

Yes please, I take great delight in the old art of QSL'ing and my preferred method is via the Bureau, but I will do QSL direct and eQSL too. So if we have a QSO I do appreciate a QSL card and I will always return!
- Direct QSL: You don't need any return charge (IRC or $) for returning mail, only a self addressed envelope is sufficient.
- Likewise if you are a SWL and hear a QSO please do a QSL and I will return 100%
I hope this will keep the hamspirit alive !



Thanks for looking me up on QRZCQ,

Rgds 73s, Kurt

Equipment

TX:
- Kenwood TS440s
- Yeasu 7800


Ant:
- End-Fed 1:9 Antenna
- Diamond CP6

- Diamond X30N