NL9222's Shack.

SHACK [ALLMOST FINISHED & TO DO: ANTENNA'S]

REAL LIFE IN SHORT, WITHOUT JIBBER JABBER ;-) From 1975 until 1985 i used to do RTTY and SSB On HF and 2M FM... This would be boring now. From 1985 until 1995 i did SSTV and FAX only... Where have they all gone as most operators are still alive. From 1995 until 2005 i did 73, 136, 440 and 472 KHz QRSS, CW, RTTY, BPSK and DFCW... Still can do. From 2007 until present i listen every mode on 2, 4, 6, 8 Meters, LF, MF AND HF, Digital or Visual... SO5R ;-)
PREVIOUS SHACK

1962 MADE IN HOLLAND AND BORN ON JUDGEMENT DAY, HERE COMES "TROUBLE" 1974 RECEIVED RTTY FOR THE 1ST TIME, USING A TONO THETA 350, A KENWOOD TS-530S FOR RX AND A 2x40 METER DIPOLE, FIRST RTTY SIGNAL I RECEIVED CAME FROM 5W1EJ IN WEST SAMOA. 1985 RECEIVED SSTV FOR THE 1ST TIME, USING AN "SR-256" AND THE ROBOT400 RECEIVING 8,16 AND 32 SEC. B/W LINE SEQUENTIAL AND 2 ROBOT COMPOSITE MODES. THE FIRST STATION I RECEIVED IN 8 SECOND B/W WITH THE SR-256, WAS BERT, W5ZR. 1988 ONE OF MY FIRST AWARDS WERE: WAC 5 BAND SSB AND THE HEARD ALL VK CALL AREAS AWARD 1989 STARTED COLOR SSTV WITH THE WRAASE "SC-1" AND THE AVT SYSTEM FROM A.E.A. COVERING ALL EXCISTING AND EXPERIMENTAL SSTV MODES AT THAT TIME, WICH WERE OVER 55. THE FIRST STATION I RECEIVED IN M1 COLOR WAS LIONEL, VK7HL FROM TASMANIA. 1996 RECEIVED THE I.V.C.A -DXAA AWARD"#5-SWL" FOR MY FIRST 50 DXCC COUNTRIES ON SSTV IGNORING ALL THE USUAL COMMENTS I RECEIVED, I ALSO STARTED WITH HELLSCHREIBER THIS YEAR. AND I GOT MARRIED ON THE 4TH OF JULY, BUT DON'T WORRY I'LL NEVER GROW UP. 2007 [25-8] EARLIER THAN EXPECTED I FINISHED THE NEW ALLMIGHTY GEARHELL..................... PRO'S: SHORTER COAX, LESS INHOUSE AND OUTSIDE NOISE, STABLE TEMPERATURE AND A GHOST! WITH 217 DXCC CONFIRMED SINCE 1975 I STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN BUT MOSTLY DIGITAL MODES NOW. 2012 AFTER 22000 PLUS QSO'S IN BPSK MODE AND NOWHERE TO GO I DID SET UP JT65HF AND JT-ALERT BY VK3AMA TO FILL UP MISSING DXCC, ZONES, STATES, IOTA'S, PREFIXES AND GRIDSSQUARES. FEBRUARY ORDERED 2 NEW ALINCO DX-R8, THEY COME CHEAP SO WHY NOT BUY 2, ONE SET UP FOR WSPR OR DSSTV ON 40 METERS AND THE OTHER ONE, UNTIL I GET A THIRD USB-III, IS DOING 144.750 ATV TALKBACK. JUNE ALL DONE WORKING ON WAS JT65 FINALLY RECEIVED AN EQSL FROM HAWAII. 2016 MAY GOT MYSELF INTO A HEAD ON COLLISION, BOTH BIKES AND KNOCKED ME DOWN FOR 22 WEEKS BROKE AND CRACKED A FEW PARTS OM "MY FRAMEWORK" SOME PARTS HURTS LIKE HELL FOR 3 DAYS BUT AFTER THAT I WAS ABLE TO FIND MY WAY INTO QT PROGRAMMING ;-) AND ABLE TO CHANGE MINOR STUFF, MOSTLY "LOOKS" IN JTDX, WSJT-X, WSJT-Z AND JS8CALL. DECEMBERI WENT BACK TO THE RUST AND DUST MINES AT DOLLAR & DIME SANDBLASTING:-( 2018 PREVIOUS DXCC COUNT WAS 215, STARTING 1975 UNTIL 2007, STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN DEC 2007 WITH 305 COUNTRIES OUT OF WAC 5BAND#0008, WAC WARC#0009 AND WAC 160M#0002 ALL SINCE 23 DEC 2007 THE SMALL GEAR AND SHORT ANTENNAS SEEM TO WORK FB FOR ME. I ALSO MANAGED TO COMPLETE WAS AND WAZ AT THE DMC. ALSO UPDATED SOME STUFF ON THE "FRANKENSTEIN PC" PAGE [PROPAGATION MADE ME DO IT]FRANKENSTEIN 2019 FEBRUARY LATEST AWARDS DONE IN FT8 MODE USING VARIOUS JTDX VERSIONS ARE FROM THE FTDMC CLUB: WAS WAZ#0077 AND WAC#1025. ALSO GOT 4 METERS, 6 METERS AND 60 METERS GOING WITH THE : "WORKED SIXTY" 60 METERS#0015, "50 GRID LOCATORS" 4 METERS#0001 AND "250 GRID LOCATORS" 6 METERS #0006 AWARDS 2020 NOT EXPECTING TO MAKE IT TO 100 DXCC OR 40 ZONES BUT I AM DONE WITH REPEATERS SO I CONNECTED A MICROKEYER II WICH WAS REPLACED BY THE MK3 TO THE OLD UNEMPLOYED 7400 TO DO SOME FT8 ON 144 MHZ ALSO AND GATHERED "100 GRID LOCATORS" ON 2 METERS. IN CASE OF NO PROPAGATION THIS SETUP MONITORS 144.8875 OR 144.500 SLOWSCAN TELEVISION. JULY FOUND A WAY TO RUN A GRABBER AGAIN, RUNNING FSKVIEW BY AJ4VD AND WSPR 4.0 BY K1JT HERE GRABBER 2021 ONE OF THE LATEST AWARDS 9 BAND WACAND10 BAND DXCC JUST TO SHOW THE INSIDE ANTENNA FOR HF IS WORKING FINE. 2022 STILL WORKING WITH INSIDE ANTENNA'S BUT MANAGE TO RECEIVE WSPR, SSTV, JS8 AND FT8 ALL AT THE SAME TIME, ALTHOUGH SSTV AND FREEDV IS TOUGH TO DO THROUGH A METAL ROOF. MARCH 3 2022 I BECAME GRANDPA OF MY 1ST AND NOVEMBER 11 2022 OF MY 2ND GRAND DAUGHTER 2023 2022 IS GONE, LOGGED 31400 QSO'S THIS YEAR, USING 5 RADIO'S, 5 MICROHAM DEVICES AND THE OLD SCS PACTOR CONTROLLER PTC-II PRO USING THIS USB SERIAL ADAPTER TO USB. AUGUST OPTICAL FIBER FINALLY INSTALLED "I CAN'T DRIVE 55" XML LOOKUP WORKS FAST NOW! TO SPEED UP LOGGING, I ONLY SET THE LAST 15 CALLS "VISIBLE" FOR FAST RELOAD, NO NEED TO RELOAD 230000+ LINES! AND HAVE A SECOND EXPERIMENTAL LOG PAGE SHOWING MY LAST 1000 STATIONS HERE SEPTEMBER STARTED REPLACING HTML TO CSS WHERE POSSIBLE, NOT SURE WHAT I AM DOING BUT WE'LL SEE ;-) NOT USING 66 BROWSERS HERE TO CHECK MY CODE SO THINGS COULD LOOK WEIRD, LET ME KNOW AND I MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIX IT. 6 MONTHS ARE GONE NOW, SO THE PISS, MOAN & COMPLAIN DESK IS CLOSED, DID ONE EVER LOOK ACTUALLY ? NOVEMBER THE OTHER WEBSITES [ MORE SERIOUS ] ARE AT QRZCQ.COM AND ANOTHER ONE AT HAMQTH.COM 2024 AFTER THE HTML TO CSS THING WICH IS LESS CODE SO PAGES ARE SMALLER IN THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS, I ALSO CONVERTED A LOT OF THE GRAPHICS USED FROM .JPG OR .PNG TO .WEBP TO SAVE SPACE ON QSL.NET AND FASTER LOADING OF MOST GRAPHICS. ! GAINED ALLMOST 35 MEGABYTES ALLREADY, IN CASE OF NO PROP. I WILL DO SOME MORE CRUNCHING