Biography

In the early 90s I bought a simple CB radio and started with a Dirland Europa 1, then a Midland Alan 58e, followed by the the Midland Alan 48+ and 78+.

In 1995 I decided to also buy a scanner with a wide frequency range, it became the Yupiteru MVT-7100, which eventually resulted in listening to some HF conversations.

In the early 2000s I decided to stop the hobby. However, in 2023 an old friend reached out to me, he convinced me to start with Meshtastic. My first node was bought and around the same time I decided to use my RTL-SDR v4 for HF. A Youloop antenna was bought, including a Mini Whip, and here I am as a SWL.

September 2024 :: I decided to become a member of the well-known PI4DEC (PI4D) Dordtse Elektronica Club in Dordrecht.
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Registered at VRZA as SWL with SWL Call PA11674

Owner of the Meshtastic Netherlands Community site https://www.meshnet.nl/
Member and regular visitor of the Dordtse Elektronica Club (Dordrecht Electronics Club) PI4DEC / PI4D https://www.pi4dec.nl/

Listening/working on:
70cm, 2m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, 80m

https://pskreporter.info/pskmap?preset&callsign=PA11674SWL&showlines=1
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Hopefully someone who is padding my page, is able to answer these couple of questions?:
- How do I obtain the badges of the bands i listen to? Some people have 10m/15m/20m badgets shown on their page.
- How do I obtain the badges for the DXCC50/DXCC200 etc. ?
- Can a SWL become a 'verified' member and if so, how do i obtain this?

Answers may be sent via PM.
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for visiting my page.
73's

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Hardware:
- Raspberry Pi 3 + RTL-SDR v3 (VHF/UHF)
- Raspberry Pi 3 + RTL-SDR v4 (HF)
- ATS-20+ Plus v2
- +Some cheap-**s Clone RTL-SDR's
- Quansheng UV-K5(8) (RX-Only) (VHF/UHF)
- Radtel RT-490 (RX-Only) (VHF/UHF)
- Commtel Com 3000 (RX/TX 27MHz / CB Radio (FM))

Antenna's:
- Moonraker SKYSCAN DESKTOP (VHF/UHF)
- PA0RDT Mini-Whip (HF)
- Youloop (HF)
- +Some telescopic and other sorts of antennas

Software:
- rtl_tcp on both Raspberry Pi's
- OpenWebRX+ on a home server

Also active on Meshtastic:
- 2x Heltec V3 868MHz in a Bender Case
- 1x Heltec WSL V3 868MHz
- 1x Heltec WSL V3 433MHz