I was introduced to electronics when I was a young boy by my father who is an electronics hobbiest. My father built shortwave receivers and all other kind of electronics. I started listening to shortwave broadcast station when I was around 13. At that time we learned english at school so I could understand some of the foreign broadcasts.

In 1976 I became member of the highschool station PI1GOE. I spent a lot of time at the 80m band in the SSB DX window. I also learned to contest there. Still remember the WAE contest with the QTC's. One operator doing the talking, 2 operators doing the writing. 

In 1983 I did the exam for my own license, first a no-code license as PE1JLS, 2 years later I passed the morse code test and I got a full license, PA3EOB. In 1989, when we got the option to change our callsigns, I changed it to PA5KT, which is an easy call for CW, but does not sound bad on SSB either. I rarely work SSB, most of the contacts are CW and RTTY.

Welcome to amateur radio station PA5KT. I am interested in a lot of different aspects of radiocommunication. Mostly active on 160m, 80m, 6m and 2m amateur bands. Also interested in new technics like SDR. Active contester on HF.

In February 2014 my wife and I moved to another house in the countryside with a nice garden and more antennaspace.

Location: https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.4835138,3.8406284,149m/data=!3m1!1e3

See here for DXCC status and WAS status.

Transceiver are a K3 and OpenHPSDR TRX, amplifiers are Alpha 374A, SGC-500 and LineairAMPUK discovery. Antennas 2-el tribander, HF9-V, top loaded vertical for 160m (15m vertical), 6 el beam for 6m and 12 el beam for 2m.

Update Stew Perry contest