Amateur Radio Station

H. J. Ray Cypers

Nieuwrodesesteenweg, 25

B-3200 Aarschot

Belgium

T. +32 (0)16 56 70 12

on4oc@ray-cypers.be  

14/04/2014

Amateur Radio Station 

Licensed since 1950

    Member of ARRL  (American Radio Relay League)

ARRL Diamond Club

  - 50 Years -

 Membership Loyalty Award

Certificate of Recognition

http://www.arrl.org

Here you can find out what amateur radio is all about.

Member of UBA 

(Royal Union of Belgian Amateur radio operators)

http://www.uba.be 

Hier kom je te weten wat radio amateurisme is.

Ici vous trouvez ce que c'est le radio amateurisme.

  Operator: H. J. Ray Cypers          

            Born September 1927

            Electronics Engineer (1948) Na.Ra.Fi. - In.Ra.Ci.- National Radio- and Film-technical Institute.

            Became Manager of the “Civil Telecommunications Department” Philips/MBLE Brussels.

            Retired since 1992.

           Consultant for a telecommunication network in Algeria (1993)

 -

1950 April 3th: succeeded in the examination for Radio Operator Telegraphy.

         Call sign ON4OC  , Cat 5 - sect. A (Power 30 Watt).

1951 March 5th: succeeded in the examination for Radio Operator Telephony.  

1953 Jan.: Authorisation Radio Station 5th Cat. Section B (75 Watt).

1956 Feb.: Authorization for a weekly “H.F. Propagation & DX-News” Broadcast on 80m.

1960 Oct.: Authorization for third-party traffic with the Belgian-Congo (OQ5-OQ0).

1962 June: Authorization for “Fixed-Portable” operation from Kain (Tournai) as ON4OC/A.

1963 June: Authorization for “ Mobile ” operation as ON4OC/M.

1963 July: Authorization to operate as ON4MPC, in behalf of MBLE-Telecom., for contacts with a Trans-Sahara expedition.

1973 Mar.: License as operator "Telecomand-station" Clas A

1984 April: Authorization for “RTTY” (Radio Teletype) and “S.S.T.V.” (Slow Scan Television) transmissions.

Updated on 14-03-14.

Actual

STATION DESCRIPTION

Site

Lat.: 50° 58' 30", (50.97) N.                   

Longt.: 4° 50' 13", (4.83) E.

Locator: JO 20 KX

55 m a.s.l.

45 km E.N.E. of Brussels, Belgium.

16 km S.E. of Leuven.

Antennas      

H.F.:

• 276ft  Long Wire, 12m above ground, end fed with open wire line.

• Telrex, 2 Inverted V's for 3.5 and for 7MHz, apex at 20m above ground.

• Butternut Model HF6V 3.5/7/10/14/21/28MHz vertical, on ground level.

• FRITZEL Model UFB 23, 10/18/25MHz 2-El. rotary beam at 20m above ground.

• TELEX. (hy-gain) Model TH3MK3-S Thunderbird, 3-El. rotary beam at 22m a.g..

V.H.F. (2 m.):                                                                      

• Telrex 8 element, rotary, long yagi, horizontal pol. at 13m above ground.

• J-Beam 4 element, rotary, cubical quad, vertical pol. at 12m above ground                           

• Folded dipole, vertical pol. in the attic, for local contacts. 

U.H.F. (70 cm):

• 5/8 omnidirectional vertical at 11m above ground.

Tx / Rx Equipment

H.F.:

• Yaesu Model FT-ONE General coverage all mode solid state transceiver with Sp-980 speaker.

• FL-2277B 600W linear amplifier and FC-102 antenna tuner .

• YAESU Model FT-901D HF all mode transceiver, with FV-901DM synthesized scanning VFO, FC-902 antenna tuner and SP-901 speaker.

V.H.F:

• YAESU Model FT-221R all mode 2 m. transceiver with a Mutek front.

U.H.F.:

• KENWOOD  - TM441E -

Computers

Hardware: Dell XPS 8300 : Intel Core I5-2300, 4 MB RAM, 1 TB HD, 

                   D-Link N DIR-655 ADSL2/2+ Home Gateway,

                   Canon Pixma iP4500 printer,

                  Canon CanoScan 9000F scanner.

Network connection between P.3 & IBM-P4.

Software: Swiss-Log v. 5.2Eca, DX-Telnet v. 5.1 for Packet-Radio, for SSTV: Chromo Pix and MMSSTV v.1.08 ,

                  Proplab-Pro v. 2.0 and ASAPS v.4.0 for HF propagation, etc.  

                 Microsoft Windows 7 Pro., Office 2010 Pro., FrontPage2002, Publisher 2010. Corel Paint Shop Pro PhotoX6, a.o..

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