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Welcome to

My shack

On the left you can see the current picture of my shack. It changes after a minute or so. It’s free… If you click on it, you’ll get a popup window with streaming video. Works only with IE, not Netscape!

Because my camera sometimes moves, I can’t tell what you are seeing right now. Hope it’s not 18+ …

Maybe you see something of my shack that is being described below. Enjoy!

My shack isn’t so big and doesn’t contain that much equipment. I used to have more than listed on this page, but I sold most of it in order to be able to buy other stuff. Most of my Motorola portables collection is sold out and the only transceivers I am using are well chosen. I think…

The first thing I want to show you, is the Kenwood TH-K2ET VHF handheld. It gives 5W and receives very well. It gets good reviews from various sites. However, it has a fault in the battery consumption. It drwas quite a current when not in use. Send it back to Kenwood and they’ll fix it. Or just make sure you have a newer one.

Looking for the mods? www.mods.dk had the mod from my hand! Hope you enjoy it!

This handheld was the first transceiver I bought when I got my license. It is a Kenwood TH79 and ofcourse fully modified. It goes up to 5 Watts when giving it 12V external power, but it gets quite hot.

This handheld is extremely good when you need a low power signal at a desired frequency and it has some great features like DTMF and CTCSS.

The modification is done by cutting the green wire inside. However, there is another modification where you have to remove a diode. It works great as long as you don’t remove too much diodes… It can do crossband repeating, something that is prohibited in The Netherlands.

You can find the modification at mods.dk.

Finally we can transmit at the HF frequencies with our C-license. Fortunately I already had this transceiver which works rather good on these frequencies. It also has 2m inside and 70cm. The FT-817 is now being used for my Echolink re-repeater. It’s hooked up to my newly mounted antenna an repeats the local repeater, PI3ZLB at 145.7250 MHz to the internet. I think it’s great. I already got Brazil to The Netherlands by using Echolink. Just take a look at my homebrew part for details about the interface I am using. Software is also available through a link.

Last but surely not least:

ICOM’s IC-V8000 VHF @ 75Watts

I believe this is the ultimate fuck you ever made. It works just great, produces a much too great bunch of power and has some features I’ve never seen before. Let me summarise:

- 75W power, in 4 steps

- frontfiring speaker for optimal performance (in car?)

- two colour display (green and amber) for best fit in shack or car

- standard DTMF mike with more features on it than directly accessible on the fron (= great)

- blowing fan in 3 modes: auto (medium when transmitting and 2min. afterwards, medium continu and high continu) and if you have a radio that gets hot: try this fan that really cools down the rig!

- Computer programmable

All these features make it the best radio ever. It has more, but just read it at www.icomamerica.com and you’ll see!

In my car I use the Condor-16:. A 2m rig with 5TVO feature and 10W of power. Using it in a Lancia Delta HPE in combination with a remote head console makes it a good alternative for the IC-V8000!