Introduction

I began in ham radio as a SWL (short wave listener) in 1969. It was fun to receive QSL cards from all over the world. Some of those cards came from countries which no longer exist today. Since 1974 I am a licensed ham radio operator with call sign PA0FVH. For many years I was an active ham from the city of Delft. In 1996 I moved to the city of Veenendaal. Due to many reasons I was inactive with the radio hobby for ten years. After the non active period I picked up the hobby again and started with a magnetic loop antenna. I live in an apartment and antenna space is limited to my patio at the fifth floor. Stealth hamming is the key word. At the moment I am using the aluminum fire escape (10m high) as a vertical antenna on the lower bands. Tuning is done with the CG-3000 automatic antenna tuner. If antenna space is limited, you have to be creative. On my website I want to share my antenna experiments with you.

Fred Verburgh, PA0FVH