Biography

Hello I'm Wolter, born in 1961.

Since the late 70's I became interested in radio. Although my father was a electronics hobbyist, he build his own class A audio Amplifiers, metering equipment etc., my interest in amateur radio (ehh, read illegal broadcasting) started because an older brother of my schoolmate was a popular Music Radio Station, mainly on Sunday mornings. Illegal of course! So that is how I got the fever and like many others in that time I also started experimenting with a homebrew "WZ6" transmitter on the 3 meter band, in FM mode between 100 and 104 MHz. Of course, this was not allowed by the government but who cares!
We made, together with a lot of other stations around me, nice FM radio. We got numerous requests from listeners especially on Sunday's. I remember that we even had a postbox in Ede where listeners could send cards to asking for a special song for whatever reason. We played Dutch songs mostly, but like I mentioned before, also what the listeners wanted. Famous local pirate radio stations that time that I remember are Radio Veronica, Mebo-2, Radio-102, Radio Bonanza, Cobra, Radio Condor and many, many others. Even my girlfriend that time was sometimes on the air with the FM broadcast station from her older brother. Her call was "Otje". I even recall that the tune from Radio Condor was from the Waikiki's.
As far as I know, and because I don't listen any more, the FM pirates in our area are just history. The commercial radio stations have taken over the airspace!

Radio Bonanza was my father (RIP) and he played on Sunday afternoon mostly Country and Western songs with my equipment which was grown with a home build mixer and two turntables into a semi professional studio Hi. He stopped immediately after one of his colleagues asked him if it was possible that he heard the low voice of my father last Sunday, on Radio Bonanza.... since my father was a profession military, he faced problems if his superiors found out that he was illegal broadcasting. So, no Radio Bonanza any more.

Later on I got in contact with 11 meters because my older sisters boyfriend was an enthusiast 11 meter radio amateur. No need to mention that this was as even illegal as my experiments on the 3 meter band but hey, nobody cares.

My sister married the 11 meter radio amateur and I married the sister of my schoolmate. So now I was surrounded with two brothers in law with different interests in radio. The radio interest stayed, but work, children and other things came first.

Nowadays we all three have a radio license.


to be continued....

Equipment

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    2019-8-21 The station setup has changed a little bit
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Radio equipment:
- Yaesu FTdx101D HF transceiver;
- ICOM 7300 HF Transceiver, mostly used /A or /M when traveling with our mobile home;
- Acom 1000 amplifier;
- MFJ 9982 2k5 Antenna tuner with build in 100W Dummy Load;
- microHAM MKII for digital modes;
- Daiwa CN-801 SWR and Power meter;
- MAAS SPS-50 II Power Supply;
- HQPower PS1320 20 Amp. Power Supply (Thanks Jaap, PA3BQC for this one).

Antenna equipment:
- Versa Tower with two sections and a Yaesu G1000 rotor;
- Diamond X300N, a vertical 2m/70cm Dual bander in top;
- HB9CV, 3 el for 6 meters;
- PKW MHF1E/40, monobander for 40 meters;
- LZ LZA10-5, 10 el 5 bander for 10,12,15,17 and 20 meters;
- Alpha Delta DX-B, a 1/4 wave sloper for 160, 80, 40 and 30 meters.

Other equipment in the shack:
- Kenwood TR9130, my good old 2 meter all-mode transceiver;
- Kenwood TM-G707A, 2m/70cm Dual bander for local QSO's;
- Kenwood TM-D707A, 2m/70cm Dual bander in my car including APRS;
- And a lot of other stuff.



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    2018-04-12 The station setup at present time is
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Radio equipment:
- Yaesu FTdx3000 HF transceiver;
- Acom 1000 amplifier;
- MFJ 9982 2K5 Antenna tuner with build in 100W Dummy Load;
- microHAM MKII for digital modes;
- Daiwa CN-801 SWR and Power meter;
- MAAS SPS-50 II Power Supply.

Antenna equipment:
- Versa Tower with two sections and a Yaesu G1000 rotor;
- Diamond X50N, a vertical 2m/70cm Dual bander in top;
- 3 el HB9CV, for 6 meters;
- PKW MHF1E/40, monobander for 40 meters;
- LZ LZA10-5, a 10 el 5 bander for 10,12,15,17 and 20 meters;
- Alpha Delta DX-B, a 1/4 wave sloper for 160, 80, 40 and 30 meters.

Other equipment in the shack:
- Kenwood TR9130, my good old 2 meter all-mode transceiver;
- Kenwood TM-G707A, 2m/70cm Dual bander for local QSO's;
- Kenwood TM-D707A, 2m/70cm Dual bander in my car including APRS;
- And a lot of other stuff.