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My name is Bas (just like in my suffix !). I live in a village called Roodeschool in the province of Groningen in The Netherlands. Radio is my hobby since 1979 when I bought a Stentor 5 Watt FM transmitter as a student. I just tried to put some music on air and then went with my portable radio on my bicycle to see what the distance was that I could reach. At that time I did not know about antenna and SWR or coax. So I just used a carradio antenna to transmit, results just a few hundred meters of reception. |
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In 1980 I got my first 11 Mtr CB AM Walky Talky, and since CB became populair in the Netherlands, this was my first encounter
with a kind of amateurradio. After almost 20 years of experimenting and DXing on the 11 Mtr band I was ready to go for amateurradio and I passed my
license at 24 April 1998 as PD1AKZ novice and at 22 June 1999 as PE4BAS technical. Since 2003 I am allowed to be on the HF
bands as well.
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