New HF mast installation and it's current status:

On October 21st 2011 we started with the removal of the old mast and completed four days later the installation of the new antenna tower. Just one day after we finished with the installation, the temperature dropped significantly and unfortunately up to today we were not able to install the new coax & antennae in the tower.

News 17-04-2012: PA7TWO / PA/M5TWO / PD7TWO are back On-The-Air! Antennae farm consists of: A VHF/UHF vertical, 5 element LFA for 50MHz, 8 elements Quad for 144MHz and the 5 band 2 elements HF beam are mounted in the tower.

Update 06-05-2012: All antennae have Ecoflex coax feeds connected and seems to be working just fine. Within one week over 20 new DXCC on the higher WARC bands as result of 'some' DX-ing & antenna testing, that looks very promesing indeed.

Update 23-05-2012: Back on-the-air and QRV on Wire dipoles on 3MHz & 7MHz. 14MHz, 18MHz, 21MHz, 24MHz and 28MHz are horizontally polarised using a 2 ele yagi. A 8 element QUAD is used for 144MHz. Furthermore, vertically QRV on 24MHz, 28MHz, 144 & 432MHz. The 10MHz band has been forgotten in original bandplan (.), need to put in some Wire this summer. When 10MHz ant is deployed, QRV 3 <> 432MHz!

A series of photos of the new tower is depicted below. All still 'under construction' and to be finalized when time allows.

23-05-2012 Tower at "DX working hights".

25-05-2012

24-05-2012 Let's take a look inside.

06-05-2012 = 7O6T on 28MHz in the log :-)

30-04-2012 Tower in lowest position.

Nov-2011 Tower mounted to the wall. It will take a few months before I can populate the tower with antennae :-(

PA7TWO operating at PA6NH site running a Harris 590 Receiver & Telefunken S2525/3 HF amplifier on 29/30-01-2011 during the UBA-SSB contest.

Greetings dear HAM friends!

I am currently residing with my family in the beautiful city of Alkmaar, world famous for its Dutch cheese market / cheeses. Alkmaar is located in the north-west part of The Netherlands, 55 km north of its capital Amsterdam. XYL is Antoinette (Ann) PD7TWO, she makes it all possible for me to do this hobby!

We have two kids, Kees jr (KC) my son Kees and daughter Anna. Checkout my kids Kees & Anna on Youtube. Both are Karate and Judo specialists. Anna at 9 years young ranked 3rd in the Dutch Karate Kata Championships in 2009, both kids ranked 4th in year 2010 and 4th again in 2011 in the same event. Search on YouTube for "JudoKarateKids".

In 1991 I passed the CEPT-Class-II license and was restricted to VHF/UHF with relatively low power. Passed the CEPT-Class I license exam in 1992 and after many VHF contests year after year with top rankings, I had some DX experiences on SIX in between as well.

Learning the CW code was accomplished in nearly 3 months time with the UFB help of my Morse teacher Gerard PA1GR. I decided to do the Morse exam in England on 09-August-2001 and passed with colored flags in receiving and transmitting. After I passed the CW exam, I obtained the full CEPT-Class A license the same year in both the United Kingdom (M5TWO) and in The Netherlands (PA7TWO) thereafter.

I am enjoying the 6 metre band the most, very active on the HF bands too and from time to time you can find me on VHF as well.

I mostly operate CW & DiGi modes these days, occasionally you can find me on SSB.

The former callsigns I held were : PD0RCJ, PE1OOY, PE51OOY, PE7TWO, G7TWO.

About QSL stuff: I QSL 100%! I am most happy to reply your QSL-cards, please read the instructions below how you can choose between the various ways to exchange QSL-cards with me:

Direct #1: EUROPE ONLY: Add 1 U.S. $ or a NEW type International Reply Coupon (IRC) to your qsl-card for the return postage costs together with a SAE, and I assure you my QSL-card is on its return to you within 5 days.

Direct #2: REST OF THE WORLD: Add 2 U.S. $ or a NEW type International Reply Coupon (IRC) to your qsl-card for the return postage costs together with a SAE and I assure you my QSL-card is on its return to you within 5 days. I am sorry that 1 U.S. $ is not sufficient anymore to cover the postal costs to abroad.

Direct #3: No added postage funds means a return QSL-card via the Buro. Can take up to 1 to 2 months. I have a ‘standard’ backlog due to the huge amount of QSOs and thus QSL-cards I have to deal with.

Buro: I return a.s.a.p., in general it takes just a few months from *my* side. Let me state this very clear: ALL Buro QSL's are handled, do not worry! The Dutch QSL Buro is know for its fast and accurate handling of QSLcards.

SWL: QSL cards by SWL's are also very much appreciated and can expect an extra quick paper QSL in return!

LOTW: On a regular basis I upload my all my log files to the LOTW. Please upload your logbook too!

If you want to send me an e-mail, please do so to ‘pa7two @ amsat . org’ (remove the extra anti-spam spaces in the email address) .

Holder of the following ARRL Certificates / Plaques / Letter of Achivements :

DXCC 6M (Owww yes!)

DXCC 10M

DXCC 15m

DXCC 20m

DXCC 40m

DXCC 80m

DXCC 5Band

DXCC 6Band

DXCC PHONE

DXCC MIXED

DXCC CW

DXCC RTTY

DXCC 5Bandplaque

DXCC Challenge 1000 Award letter & plaque

WAS TPA #428 (3rd Dutch HAM that was awarded, accomplished in exactly 2 months time)

WAS DiGi Mode

WAS PSK-31 Mode

WAS RTTY

WAS Basic

10m WAS Basic

15m WAS Basic

20m WAS Basic

40m WAS Basic

80m WAS Basic

WAS Phone

WAS CW

5BWAS (Applied for award on 11-2011, application approved early March 2012, award received 12-05-2012.)

WAC

WAC 5band

If you need The Netherlands as a new one on 2m, 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, 20m, 40m or 80m in CW , SSB or RTTY/PSK31, drop me an email and we SKED!

Vy 73, de Kees – PA7TWO – M5TWO aka "The Six Maniac". SOC#784 UKSMG# 1244 EPC#10242. Crew member PA6W.

Check out my homepage! It is an old non-updated webpage from my early HF and 50MHz days, and contains cool 50/144/432 MHz audio clips from the early days too! http://home.wanadoo.nl/pa7two/

PACC 2005 activation together with CW guru Rob PA3GVI. We ranked 4th in section MOST (D).

Activating PA6LH Lighthouse 'Van Speyk' NET-007 in Egmond aan Zee on 7/14MHz in August 2007, resulting in 407 SSB QSOs during an "dx-pedition style" 3 hours duration activation.

Not applicable for the few fortunate HAMs who made a QSO with me while activating PA6LH, unfortunately this was just an "once off" event. Due to this short activation, many of you were able to finally complete and request the Lighthouse award. It was great fun and thanks a lot for the massive positive feedback received for this operation, really encouraging!!

Some PA6LH QSLcards of this operation are still available for the one who needs (PA6LH via PA7TWO via Direct or Buro!)

Some QSLcard examples: