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Hello Folks ! Welcome at my Radio-amateur website. My name is Andre and my QTH is KLUISBERGEN which is in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium. About 70 Km west of Brussels. Radio has been my job and my hobby ! Amateur license since 1962 with over 46 years of ham radio. I invite you to have a look into my radio website. Best 73's from Andre - ON5FS
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| Since I started back in 1956 with morse code many things have evolved also in ham radio. A major part at that time was spend at DX- Chasing. That period ended in 1980 when I had about 278 confirmed countries. After that period I spend most of my time at the digital modes. Starting over Radio - telex ( RTTY , SSTV etc.). After a while the amateur TOR version became available with AMTOR and a couple years later PACTOR and PACKET. From then on I spend my time only with digital transmission and this from H.F frequency to 2.4 GHz. Although I have plans for 10 GHz.....and already in use today |
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Retired for already 10 years ham radio has become a very important part of my daily live. Time to spend some $ . About 2 years ago my old 21 meter steel tower became rusty and insecure. Time to install a new aluminum crank- up tower. ( 3 sections of 8 meters + 6 meter top steel tube ) A electrical crank-up elevator is shown on the right make things easier to install antennas etc....... Antennas : 5 element Fritzel (30-20-17-15-12-10 ) 4 element 6 meter Yagi Dipole for 80 meters Dipole for 40 meters Comet vertical for 144 & 430 MHz 12 element yagi for 70 cm ( Packet ) 22 element 23 cm ( Receive ATV ) Dish for 2.3 Giga Hertz ( Send ATV ) Coax : Distance shack<-> tower is 40 meters. RG-213 for HF and 6 meters AIRCOM Plus for VHF & UHF ECOFLEX - 15 for 23 & 13 cm |
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Pactor was invented by a group German radio-amateurs who found a way to
make a better AMTOR. It soon at my interest and I started with a KAM controller followed by the AEA PK-900. I became one of the very first H.F /pactor<> packet gateways on the 20 meter band. Several ten-thousand messages have been going through the gate. Later I became an early Pactor-II user with the SCS PTC-II followed by PACTOR- 3 who opened the way towards "high speed digital transmission over the HF bands". There are many gateways in use today. So I switched my interest to " Error Free digital SSTV " Pactor-3 together with GAMMA software written by Paul DJOCU makes a fine team. The set-up you see by clicking the thumbnail on the left is no longer in use since I started with the Winlink 2000 described here under. P.S : You can download the GAMMA software free at : www.simple32.com
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The Internet has become the e-mail medium of choice for most hams, but there is a sizeable group of amateurs who often travel beyond the reach of the Internet. This group includes hams at sea, Mobil homes, missionaries, scientists and explorers. No doubt the day will come when wireless, affordable Internet e-mail access will be available from any point on the globe. Until that day arrives, however, Amateur Radio HF digital operators have a very capable substitute!. Winlink2000 is a HF ham radio network that uses HF Pactor-2 or -3 and the Internet. This global network consist of 4 CMS ( Central Management SERVERS ) Washington, San Diego - USA, Halifax Canada and Perth Australia. The 4 servers are connected via broadband internet lines. The servers are backing-up each other. These 4 servers are again connected with +/- 50 RMS's of which ON0FS is ONE. The RMS and the Servers are also connected over a permanent broadband internet line. ON0FS- RMS consist of 4 X IC718 ICOM transceivers , each having his own Pactor-3 controller. Radio hams at sea, in their motor homes, in the Jungle, on sailboats have a Laptop running " Airmail 2000" ( similar as Outlook Express) a pactor-2/3 controller and an HF transceiver who connect with the RMS over HF radio. They can exchange TEXT OVER IP messages with each other, ask for weather bulletins, APRS , emergency traffic etc... By each transmission they can send their GPS location which can be seen by all internet users. NEW......ON0FS is ready to start with RMS Packet. Users will have to install a free software PACLINK through this you will be able to use OUTLOOK EXPRESS for input and receive your mails. RMS Packet will run on 70 cms at 9600 Bps. Calls from non radio-amateurs will be ignored. For more information go to my own winlink site: http://users.skynet.be/on5fs Early 2008 ON5FS/RMS received athorisation from the Belgian BIPT to run the station " unmanned " Due to this change the callsign is now ON0FS
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2004 I will be on the Pacsats for 10 years . The same system is
still in use and has worked on full automatic without any major problem. This system was indented for packet with the pacsats like : ko-23 / ko-25 / UO-22 . When DX expeditions went to far away and remote islands our pacsat system was the ONLY secure system to send written messages and pictures. The speed was 9600 baud and we had about 15 minutes to communicate with the sat each pass. But it was fun...and worked great... Later a couple 38.400Baud sats did send pictures to earth. It was an expensive mod ( transceiver and modems ) so it didn't last. Since a couple years we have the AO-40 satellite who is did well but not long enough although it still remains an expensive set-up. In the main time we are looking forward to the launch of the new P3E which is announced for end 2008. To see my actual satellite set-up click on the thumbnail |
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After a quite long period of experimenting with TCP/IP at 76.800 baud who
had no success in the Belgian ham world I recently found a new bone.... ATV " Amateur Television " With help of a couple friends I now am QRV at 13 cm ATV/Send and 23 cm /ATV Receive. Thanks to our local ATV repeater who became necessary due to the hills of the " Flemish Ardennes ". 4 years later I am receiving on 10 GHz a and sending on 2400 MHz. The final amplifier is now installed below the tower. The power has increased from 3 to 40 watts. On the receive side the 13 el Yagi has been replaced by a simple LNB without dish. The ATV repeater has grown very hard. It now has 10 GHZ links towards other ATV repeaters. It as switching capability the user can select ATV repeaters or cameras and so on. |
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If you are still with me.... we have come to the end of the short (?) story about my radio- ham hobby. Thank you for your interest and you can contact me ( if not via radio ! ) via my e-mail address : on5fs@qsl.net
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Andre - ON5FS