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In 2012 I needed a new challenge to get me throw the autumn and winter and decided to start learning for my amateur radio Novice license. To support the training and getting more acquaint with amateur radio communication I also picking-up a old hobby of mine : DX listening.

DX listening without a good receiver is like building a house of cardboard, it may stay but with the first rains you may get disappointed. So I looked for a old communication receiver with a less as possible integrated circuits in it to get is far away from my daily work as possible ;-) After a few weeks I found a used and reasonably priced Yaesu FRG-7700 communication receiver on www.marktplaats.nl. And after a short mail exchange with the owner I decided to take the change and bought it. A dissension which I don't regret. I logged various 80 and 40 meter amateur radio conversations from all over Europa incl a lot of the modern east-block countries and a few from east coast of the US.

The amateur radio Novice license training was done at the begin of November, but I was to late for the last exam of 2012 :-( so I had to wait for the exam of march 2013. The time between that I kept practicing my training exams and even started to learn for the F license.

On 6 march 2013 I took the Novice exam and answered all the answers correctly. After 3 weeks all the paperwork was done and I'm a official registered ham-radio operator.

Next stops :

• Full license exam.
• finishing my 20m PSK31 transceiver.
• keep practicing morsecode (want to go CW QRP).

Although I work all days with computers as a Technical Specialist / Software engineer, I like the old kind of hamradio's. That's why my equipment list contains old radio's (no tubes) without modern digital stuff in it (although I like a digital readout). Pure analoge and without fancy stuff like DSP's etc.