NL9222's Shack.

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

REAL LIFE IN SHORT, WITHOUT "JACKY COLLINS HOLLYWOOD JIBBER JABBER" CRAP! Born in 1962 and SWL since 1975. My call NL9222 is paid for yearly, just like any other wanting to keep Hamradio alive. In my spare time i do shortwave listening, Hambands only, and some "Coding" Stylesheets, Progressbars and other minor stuff, enough ugly stuff on the "News Channels" To remain smart i skipped school a lot, and left school forever at 13. Served the military from September 1981 until October 1982 in Holland and Germany. Married on the 4th of July 1996 and have 4 daughters, 4 granddaughters and 2 grandsons. Currently working as a Sandblaster / Flamesprayer [ZINC & ALUMINIUM] since 1991. Previous jobs i did were: Gas Pipe layer, Roofer, Wrecker [Oil Rigs, Docks and Ships] Piledriver, Spotwelder, MIG Welder and Steelcutter, all fun jobs. Hope to be done in 5 years and go to India for 6 months and cutt up my last ship. From 1975 until 1985 i used to do RTTY and SSB, This would be boring these days. From 1985 until 1995 i did SSTV only, Where have they all gone as most ops are still alive. From 1995 until 2005 i did 73, 136, 440 and 472 KHz QRSS, CW and DFCW, Still can do. From 2007 until present i listen every mode on 2, 4, 6 and 8 Meters and HF, Digital or Visual.
PREVIOUS SHACK

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. 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. 2018 PREVIOUS DXCC COUNT WAS 215, STARTING 1975 UNTIL 2007, STARTED ALL OVER AGAIN DEC 2007 WITH 313 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. 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 WAC AND10 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. 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 ? I DON'T THINK SO, ALL ARE BUSY WATCHING THAT BIGGER NEIGHBORS CAR OR THEIR CELLPHONE. 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. MAY 12 AND 13 AND ALL BANDS DEAD BY SOLAR EVENTS MADE ME CRUNCH THE LAST 50 IMAGES, ALL DONE FOR NOW. 2025 RIDING THE STORM OUT, IGNORING AS MUCH DUMB PEOPLE AS I POSSIBLY CAN, MINDING MY OWN STUFF.