Biography

Hello , Welcome

My name is Peter and I have been infected with the radio virus since 1980
I was born in 1963 in Sint Niklaas (the heart of the waasland.)
I currently live in Herzele ,in the South of East-Flanders
I became interested in contesting and DX chasing in all modes, SSB HF and digital modes FT8 WSPR also on VUSHF.
Since my childhood I have been interested in ham radio and electronics.
I was licensed in 1981, while still at school as ON1BWT.
Active Member and chairman of the local radio club ZOV in Herzele ( South of East-Flanders hamradio club)
In 2003 the HF bands became available without passing a CW test , callsign changed to ON4BWT as full license
My profession is Senior sales engineer for a Swedish companies in building technologie HVAC solutions
on 25 may 2021 I became 40 years licensed as a radio amateur
Hope to hear you on one of the HAM Radio bands

73s peter

Equipment

My station HF
ICOM IC7300
Yaesu FT-2000
ICOM 9700
ICOM IC 705
RTL SDR Dongle
paddle Bencher

Antennas & Tower
Ultra Beam 6-40m 2 elem on 14m alu tilt over tower
Controller RCU-06
Home brew multi-band dipool: 2x20.3m with 32m open-wire feed(85mm spacing) 66ohm( & symetric TunerPalstar )
5 elements 6M yagi home made( summer)
Tuners
BT1500 Palstar symetric tuner 3Kw
Autotuner MFJ993B 300 Watt, AT100Pro portable operations
Balanced manual Tuner MFJ 974HB for open feed lines
MFJ Versatuner V legal power reserve

Audio+ interfaces
Digital modes IC7300
SCU-17--> for the FT2000 digimodes
Heil Proset Elite 6 headset
Behringer Xenix 50 audio mixer, pré amplifier
MD100 yaesu

Amplifier
ACOM1200 S Solid (state expected next week)
UHF VHF TRX
ICOM IC9700
TYT MD2017 DMR dual band
Ameritron AL-572 1.2Kw