Biography

The ARTIST/HAM: The Electromagnetic field is my canvas, the transmitter & antennae are paint & brush in my artistic research since 2008, creating waves that carry Morse code or Baudot telex messages into the universe. Therefore I collect testimonies as proof of our fragile existence and cast them into the universe with the speed of light. They'll leave earth, and caress the moon after 1,2 seconds, pass by Mars after 12 minutes and leave the solar system after 5 hours. Like throwing little pebbles in a pond, creating waves that travel far beyond the horizon of humanity.

Radio with baby milk:

Ham radio has it's place in my small family history. My Great-Grandfather Arthur Respen , was a ham operator "avent-la-lettre". Before HAM was subjected to licensing and regulations he was active as EB4HV, and later as ON4HV. My Grandfather Robert Vaerewijck , was 18 when he met my Great-grandfather on the HAM stand on the Universal Exhibition of 1930 in Antwerp. A decade later he married his daughter, my late grandmother.

I've got ham spooned-in from my childhood. My grandfather (EB4NA(1929) later ON4NA(1932) later ON4VW(1960) and finally ON7NA(1978))was a pioneer in the ham-world.

Building his equipment (breadboard one-tube oscillator, with a homemade carbon-mike in the antenna-wire to modulate the carrier, sparks hitting his nose as he came to close to the mike's housing) from the age of 16 - in 1929. I Spent many hours with him in the shack until he passed away. (I miss him badly)

Now, years later, I not only inherited his passion for radio but also his preferred pre-WW2 callsign ON4NA (update 11/2015).

ON4NA ex-ON7NA (1999) & ex-ON1CAG (1988) - UPDATE 11/2015)

Equipment

Vintage equipment

Collins ART13 (1948)
Collins S-Line with 30s-1 PA (1960's)
Collins R309a/UUR (1960's)
Racal AR17-L (1960's)
RCA AR88
BC342

FT101ZD
FT101Z MKIII

FT100D
FT817D