Biography

Thanks for looking me up here !

Born April 1958 in Antwerp,left school at 17 and started a job in ship repairs in the port of Antwerp. After 10 years switched career to process-operator at a chemical plant (BASF Antwerp). I'm retired from BASF march 2020 ...

I got my license on november 10 th 1981 during the big CB hype in Belgium and now I'm retired I try to get my radio skills back.

My QTH, Schelle, near the river Schelde, is located to the South of Antwerp.

Most of the contacts I make are in digital modes, little "room noise" but often I participate in a contest.
There you "read" or "hear" me with my vanity callsign OT7A.

You also might "read" or hear me with PA/ON4AWT or PA/OT7A.
Those contacts are most of the time made from my summer QTH (caravan) at a small camping site @ Burgh-Haamstede (JO11VQ) on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland (EU-146).
On occasion I will work /P

From my summer QTH in the Netherlands ( EU-146) I use PA/ON4AWT or PA/OT7A.

Bureau QSL's are accepted and returnd when I receive your QSL card but, I'm also happy with an "electronic" confirmation.

I upload my logs to QRZ.COM, LOTW, HRDLOG.net, eQSL

I use the following calls : ON4AWT, OT7A, PA/ON4AWT, PA/OT7A

Equipment

My radio's & stuff @ the home QTH :

- A Yaesu FT-991 on HF up to UHF. Nice rig, sound card build in.

- HEX-beam antenna @ 8 m ASL
- A short dualband Diamond VHF-UHF vertical (10 m ASL) at the center-pole top
- FD-4 dipole (80 - 6 meter) @ 8 m ASL

My travel companions
- A Yaesu FT-857
- A Icom IC-7300
- A RigExpert Standard interface for DIGI contacts on HF up to UHF with the FT-857


Logging
- HAM Radio Deluxe with DM-780 for logging and digi modes
- N1MM for contest logging
- WSJT-X, JTalert and GridTracker for FT-8