PA0SNY

My QTH, the beautiful village of Vijfhuizen

The purpose of this page is to provide background information about my QTH.
In general QTH means: the place on Earth where you live. So, what I'll do is to
provide some info on the place where I live: my house and my village. Let's go
top down, and start with the country.

The Netherlands, also known as Holland (although this is not really correct), is
divided into 12 provences. I live in the Provence of North Holland, close to the
capitol city of this provence, Haarlem, and some 20 kilometers away of the
capitol city of the country, Amsterdam.

Vijfhuizen is one of the communities in the Haarlemmermeerpolder.
Confusing, what? But that's the way Dutch language is: we don't split up words.
The Haarlemmermeerpolder, or "The reclaimed land from the Lake of Haarlem"
houses, in the north eastern part, the Airport of Amsterdam, called Schiphol. In the
middle of the polder the local municipal council is housed in Hoofddorp. In the south is
another community called Nieuw-Vennep, with the famous Bols distillery. Last but not
least there is, of course, Vijfhuizen. This village with approximately 2500 inhabitants,
can be found in the north western corner of the polder, against the ring canal, that
surrounds the reclaimed land. Via a bridge for bicyclists and pedestrians Haarlem
 can be reached. Vijfhuizen is situated aprroximately 4 meters below sea level.

The name Vijfhuizen, in its essence, means Five Houses. Vijfhuizen has a
supermarket, a PhD, a bakery, a butcher, a hairdresser, furniture industry,
lot's of farming, two flower shops and a HAM........ We even have a real windmill,
although (I must be honest and hate to say this) the mill is situated at the other
side of the ring canal, in a polder that is part of Haarlem. But it is known as
The windmill of Vijfhuizen.



My house is can be found easily. Once you tour the village, you ask for the
house with the antennas. There are only a few that have antennas, but none
with so many. The house is one of 'two-under-one-roof", and the last one in
the street, so easy to find. The HF groundplane, the VHF vertical and the
70 cm yagi and cloverleaf (on the chimney) are eye catchers. The wire
for 80 and 40 meters runs from our chimney to the one on the house of
my neighbour.


today's reality. Note the two antenna's. Unfortunately the wire is not visible

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