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Tag: New QTH

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

December 23, 2025 / / 4 Comments

To everyone who visits my blog… I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And of course a lot of good DX!

For me 2026 will be a year of change. We will be moving from the densely populated part of the Netherlands in the west, to one of the most rural parts of the country. And our house is under construction as you can see (I have to admit the big Christmas tree and the snow are AI).

The lines for 3 antennas, a rotor and a clean grounding are already in place

Of course the new house will have a radio shack and facilities to connect to three antennas in the garden. On the picture above you can see the work in progress.

As we will move to a temporary house in the next few weeks I might have less time to spend behind the radio, resulting in fewer posts on this blog. It’s an investment in what hopefully will be a QTH with less QRM!

A new QTH in 2026?

May 8, 2024 / / 2 Comments

In the last two weeks I have not been very active behind the radio, on my blog, and on my website… Did I lose my appetite for the radio hobby? No not at all… But since I am retired my wife and I had a desire to relocate to a quieter part of the country and build our own home. Acquiring a building lot in The Netherlands is not easy, but two weeks ago a perfect opportunity presented itself. So understandably that created a bit of distraction…

Meet the new QTH for 2026… and the current residents

A nice and above all a very rural location… open skies and vistas because that’s what we like, but at the same time only a kilometer away from forest and heath (which is what our dog likes).

More relevant for this blog: I really do hope it is a location with significant less QRM than my current suburbian house. With one neighbour 50 meters away and only 6 in a 200 meter radius my expectations are high. And with the construction of our new house I do have the opportunity to reduce noise from the mandatory solar panels as much as possible. So if anyone has construction tips related to this topic… please post them in the comments!

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