PE1RXF

Dutch amateur radio station

JO33NB

About

I am licensed since 1998 and I am still using the call issued by the government. I am mostly active on HF using SSB, RTTY, FT4/8. I am also active on VHF, UHF and SHF with modes like SSB, FT8 and DATV.

Besides just making QSOs I also like digital protocols like APRS, LoRa and HamNet.

QSL

I upload to LotW, eQSL, QRZ, Clublog, HamQTH and HRDlog. Want a paper QSL? Send me yours via the bureau and I'll send you one back.

Equipment

I'm a sucker for vintage equipment from the 80s and 90s, so I use old radios like the Yaesu FT-757GXII HF radio and obsolete digital interfaces like the Pakratt 232.

As I am a tinkerer, I use a lot of different antennas. So I utilize a telescopic mast, which makes it easy to quickly change antennas for yet another experiment.

I designed and build an APRS weather station and iGate. Weather reports are send every 10 minutes on 2 meter as well as 70 cm LoRa. The iGate is connected to the internet via a 21.88 kbps LoRa link on 70 cm. The antenna for this link is horizontal polarized, as this minimizes its influence on the LoRa APRS radio. It is, of course, also on another frequency.

More details of this build can be found at https://www.meezenest.nl/mees-elektronica/aprs_digipeater.html

The weather station is located on a fairly open site, as this makes wind measurements more accurate.

My sound modem, which I use for digital modes, is home-brew. It has build in USB audio and CAT control and is fully galvanically isolated.

More details of this build can be found at https://www.meezenest.nl/mees-elektronica/rig_interface_mk2.html

Mees Electronics

All my projects are open source and described on my main website at https://www.meezenest.nl/mees/.

Contact

You can contact me by sending an e-mail to pe1rxf at the domain name. You are probably a nerd, so you'll figure that out...
Are you a HAM? Try to contact me via the air. My call sign is PE1RXF.

Last update: 2024-03-06