Biography

In the early 90s I bought a simple CB radio and started with a Dirland Europa 1, then a Midland Alan 58e, followed by the the Midland Alan 48+ and 78+.

In 1995 I decided to also buy a scanner with a wide frequency range, it became the Yupiteru MVT-7100, which eventually resulted in listening to some HF conversations.

In the early 2000s I decided to stop the hobby. However, in 2023 an old friend reached out to me, he convinced me to start with Meshtastic. My first node was bought and around the same time I decided to use my RTL-SDR v4 for HF. A Youloop antenna was bought, including a Mini Whip, and here I am as a SWL.

October 2024 :: Member with same SWL call as VRZA at Swarl.org.
September 2024 :: Member of the well-known PI4DEC (PI4D) Dordtse Elektronica Club in Dordrecht.
April 2024 :: Member and SWL callsign with VRZA.
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Registered at VRZA as SWL with SWL Call PA11674 and with PA11674SWL at SWARL.ORG.

Owner of the Meshtastic Netherlands Community site MeshNet https://www.meshnet.nl/

Member of Dordtse Elektronica Club (PI4DEC / PI4D).

Listening/working on:
70cm, 2m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, 80m

Thanks for visiting my page.
73's

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Hardware:
- Raspberry Pi 3 + RTL-SDR v3 (VHF/UHF)
- Raspberry Pi 3 + RTL-SDR v4 (HF)
- ATS-20+ Plus v2
- +Some cheap-**s Clone RTL-SDR's
- Quansheng UV-K5(8) (RX-Only) (VHF/UHF)
- Radtel RT-490 (RX-Only) (VHF/UHF)
- Commtel Com 3000 (RX/TX 27MHz / CB Radio (FM))

Antenna's:
- Moonraker SKYSCAN DESKTOP (VHF/UHF)
- PA0RDT Mini-Whip (HF)
- Youloop (HF)
- +Some telescopic and other sorts of antennas

Software:
- rtl_tcp on both Raspberry Pi's
- OpenWebRX+ on a home server

Also active on Meshtastic:
- 2x Heltec V3 868MHz in a Bender Case
- 1x Heltec WSL V3 868MHz
- 1x Heltec WSL V3 433MHz