Biography

Started with CB  and SWL in 1976, licenced in 2000.

Initially I had the callsign PE2KM. From Nov 1st 2021 I have the callsign PC1I

The callsign PC1I comes close to the call that was used in December 1923 by the then 18 year old Henk Jesse. He is known for making the first transatlantic QSO between the Netherlands and the USA. As radio amateurs were not allowed to use transmitters at that time he used the self assigned callsign PCII. In the night 26 to 27 December 1923, starting 4:17 UTC, he made a CW QSO with USA station 2AGB that lasted till 6:17

As I wanted a new call because PE2KM was regurarly mistaken for PE2K and PE2KMV in contests I decided to switch to PC1I, partly in rememberance for the reason above and also because I like the sound of it. 

Equipment

HF:
Yaesu FTdx10 HF SSB and Digimodes and  HF Utility monitoring
Yaesu FT-991A  HF digimodes and primary 6, 2  meter and 70cm SSB FM / C4FM.
Yaesu FT-817ND, mostly used for weak signal modes like WSPR.

VHF / UHF
Yaesu FTM-300DE for mobile and static use FM/C4FM. APRS

Yaesu VX-6E Dual band
Anytone AT-D868UV Dual band DMR
Baofeng UV-5R

Receivers:
Icom R-7100 VHF / UHF Receiver mainly used for airband and mil-air
Airspy R2 and Spyverter for whatever I might be trying to conquer.  ;-)
Uniden UBCD3600XLT Analog and Digital Scanner
Uniden UBC370CLT scanner

Antenna's used:
Diamond WD-330S T2FD dipole for 80 - 10 meters
18 meter longwire antenna with 1;9 UNUN.
V2000 vertical for 6/2/70.
Comet vertical for 2/70.
When /M I use a Outbacker 2000 antenna for HF and a Sirio 2/70 for VHF/UHF.
Several dedicated antenna's for ADS-B and AIS monitoring

Other equipment:
Heil Proset with HC 5 element
LDG Z11 Pro Antenna tuner
MFJ-934 Antenna tuner with ground tuner.
Adonis AM-DX1 Ceramic element deskmike

SCS PTC-IIe Multimodem
AEA PK232 MBX Multimodem

Also listening using old scanners like Handic 0016, Bearcat 220FB, Handic 0050.

80s CB radios: 
President KP44 and Midland 77-FM-005, 22 channels FM 0,5 Watt.
Dirland Europa1 40 Channels FM and a President Johnson Classic, 40 Channels AM/FM, 4 Watt.
Dirland DSS 9000 12 x 40 channels allmode covering 12 and 10 meter Export version
2021 HAM / CB Radio:
President Lincoln II+ 10, 11and 12 meter allmode mobile Export version