{"id":36,"date":"2010-11-06T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pa4tim.nl\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2015-07-30T06:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T06:14:55","slug":"welkom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pa4tim.nl\/","title":{"rendered":"Welkom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my website !<\/p>\n

This site is about electronics related subjects. My main interest is collecting, Restoration and repair of measurement and calibration gear, network analyses and I like to design\u00a0and build analog circuits. Most just because I like it and sometimes\u00a0on freelance basis.<\/p>\n

All this gear is not for show because I like measurement experiments. Often \u00a0related to RF, component behavior or calibration. I have a softspot for General Radio equipment.<\/p>\n

You also can find several tutorials and pages where I explain electronic related subjects like component behavior (f.i. parasitics like ESR), VNA use, or how to use a bridge, what to look for if you want to buy a scope, LCR meter or multimeter. But also subjects like antennas, tuners etc.<\/p>\n

The instruments on my site are not for sale. Also not all instruments are still in my collection. I leave the pages displayed for those who search for info. I do not have unlimmited room and because I know a lot of collectors I often give thing away to other collectors or trade them to other gear. I often get things from them too. Many instruments you see here were gifts. Often in non-working condition or long not used.\u00a0\u00a0Most of them \u00a0were top of the line in their\u00a0 glory days and most still are top performers.<\/p>\n

My site is for a part still in Dutch. New pages will be English. Old pages will be converted over time. This is not my native tongue so excuse me for the mistakes.<\/p>\n

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced it to the stage of science.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides this I’m a HAM, my call is PA4TIM. I’m not very much on-air because the solder iron often calls my name louder. I like tube equipt radios like the Racals and Yaesu FTdx400 , FT101. Most of the HAM gear you see found a new home because of space issues and my physical problems after two traffic accidents. I can not sit very long and that time I use most for repairing and building things.<\/p>\n

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