Biography

Ham since 1974. In my profession I have been working as a development engineer for video circuits, dynamic focus circuits, both in HDTV’s, advanced cable TV amplifiers, product engineering for semiconductor production, test engineering for MRI-scanners. Further test engineer for cable TV equipment. Together with Margot, I live close to the town center of Nijmegen at the start/finish of the Four Days Marches (Netherlands) and in the historical center of Vetralla, Italy.
Not singing member of Opera Extravaganza (Vetralla).

With the engineers eye, I'm a specialist in the Monetary System and together with my American youth friend Mark Nyman, writer of the book "The Math Bomb", Revision 2, a book that defines the Monetary/Financial System in Technical Engineering English. In this field I inform the ECB on a weekly basis on issues "they might have missed".

Equipment

RX/TX:
SEM35, SEM52S, PRC9, PRC10, TR-7200 + VFO, IC2, IC-202S, IC-402, IC-730, IC-706MK2, IC-820H,FT-101ZD, FT70GH, DJ500, Cleqq FM88, several amplifiers for 2m and 6m.

Antenna's:
- Diamond V2000 (70cm-6m, with 3 radials for 6m)
- 75cm indoor Magnetic Loop 10-20m, on a microphone stand.
- 45cm indoor Magnetic Loop 6m.
- Muhlau Antennentechnik, DX2000 (vertical 10-80m with no radials).
- Vertical whip for use on a car (10-80m)
- Indoor bedroom antenna for 80/160m that concentrates the maximum RF-current in a 7m wire.
- Short and long antenna's for the SEM35.
- Long SEM35-antenna for use with the shortwave backpackradio FT70GH.
- 3el HB9CV for indoor use on 70cm.
- Comu dipole (non resonant dipole for 10-80m, portable use).