Hello all,
My name is JAN PRUMMEL (69 years old) and I'm living in Sappemeer, a small village 15 km east of the city of Groningen (in the northern part of the Netherlands). I'm licensed since 1982. In 1991 I did my examination in the highest CW standard in the Netherlands. Since I've got the full license my call is PA2PRU (included morsecode).
I have worked almost 40 years in the newspaperbusiness. First as typographer and journalist and after that the last 22 years as manager prepress. (The name of the newspaper: Nieuwsblad van het Noorden/Dagblad van het Noorden)
Now - because I'm retired - my wife (GRÉ is her name) and I we are doing all the nice things we can think of. A lot of time I pay attention to the radio-hobby. Mostly in CW-mode and PSK31, sometimes in phone.
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My equipment:
******* Tranceivers:
Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V Field
HF 100 Watts with build in automatic tuner
Yaesu FT-897 HF/VHF/UHF - 100-50-20 Watts with LDG AT-897 autotuner
Yaesu FT-8900 Quad-band trx - 10/6/2/70 50-35 Watts
Condor 16 for local 2 meters and AKD 7003 for local 70 cm
******* Antennas:
DUAL BEAM PRO rotary dipol for 40* - 30* - 20 - 17 - 15 -12 and 10 m.
My friend Engelhard (PA3FUJ/SM6XVI) busy assembling the antenna
Engelhard (PA3FUJ/SM6XVI) almost ready with assembling.
The Dual Beam Pro in the air
The balun for the antenna
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Home made inverted-V (model ZS6BKW) for 80 - 40 - 20 -15 and 10 and WARC-bands
mostly for the lower bands
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Comet vertical for 2 meter and 70 cm
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Antenna-rotor: Yaesu G-450C
******* Paddles:
Vibroplex Iambic de Luxe
The Black Widow
Bencher Iambic silver
Home made paddle
Home made "wooden" paddle
Japanese half-automatic bug
Paddles: Vibroplex Iambic de Luxe, Bencher silver plated, the very nice "black widow" paddle, several home-brew paddles and also two Junker straight-keys. My keyer is a Logikey K3.
TELEREADER CWR-685E - my assistance in bad CW-days.
******* Computer:
AMD Athlon 3200+ computer - Windows Vista Premium with 55 cm LED screen for HamRadio de Luxe trx-control and other amateur programs (digital modes), logbook etc.
The Signalink USB-modem for all digital modes.
For my favorit mode CW I use mostly the Vibroplex Iambic de Luxe paddle and a Logikey K-3 keyer.
Logikey K-3 keyer
I hope once we will meet each other on the band in a nice cw qso.
MY HOME
Our house and our garden.
