Start electrician apprentisship at Union Steel Corperation in Vereeniging Vaal triangle south of Johannesburg SA . Study during apprentisship training at Vaal Traingle Technicon in vanderBijlpark . gain a National Diploma for Technicians. After 4 years. qualified also as a Electrician. I Moved on to Dunswart Steel in Benoni equip with 5 furnaces , 60 ton krupp, 30 ton demag ,25 ton demag furnace with 12 MW water cooled transformer and 2 x15 ton demag furnaces and work at the Sponge Iron Plant for 5 years , with a Raw Material Handling plant (this all was belong to a German ) Then I moved on and was apoint as electrical engineer of Ficksburg Municipality as well as chief of the Waterworks. stay on in this post and left the Local Goverment, with health problems in 1993 ,and still alive hi hi . Wrote amateur exam and receive my licence on 09/06/1989 . Gain wiremans licence in 1988. After 1993 start my own electrical contracting business and still enjoy to repair electrical installations to issue certificate of complainces ,and a speciliazed in fault finding. to get faulty systems going again. From 2006 I am on HF and realy enjoy this Amateur Radio hobby . At the moment I build my own 40m and 80m bamboe antennas for my vehicles,What my health is concern , receive a three camber heart pace maker on 05/01/2012 in Bloemfontein

My antennas: 1x 42' mast carring 8 multi band parallel dipoles , legs dropped by 45 * 4m above ground supported by 2x 30' masts for 10M , 12M ,15M ,17M ,20M, 30M , 40M , 80M ,On the same 42' mast also feed point for 160m band mounted on 4x 30' masts . On top of 1X tower 30' high 1x TK3 tri bander for 10m 15m 20m , 1x 6m yagi , 2x 2m yagi with gamma matches 42' high. seperate mast for Quadro fillar hilex antenna for weather satelites (NOAA 137.100 137.500 137. 620 137.9125 MHZ )

THIS IS A 2 DIESELS ON THE RUN  THIS IS SOMETHING TO SEE . THINGS OF THE PAST . FOUND SOME WHERE IN EUROPE . CLICK ON THE PICTURE ON RIGHT HAND SIDE LEFT 1X ON MOUSE ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE. PICTURE

HERE OUTSIDE FICKSBURG 14 KM NORTH OF TOWN IN THE FREE STATE PROVINCE SOUTH AFRICA IS A WORLD HERITAGE STEAM SITE THE PHOTOS STILL TO BE SHOWN WAS TAKEN DURING THE KHALARI SUNRISE EVENT 2012 IN APRIL MONTH THIS YEAR

as well as 1x 5/8 vertical antenna for 12m and 2m 5/8 antenna for 2m band . On one of the 160m band masts is a skeleton slot 2m 10/10 antenna to trigger the 145. 775mhz repeater at platberg at LADYBRAND 80km away.

RADIOS OF ZS4DZ, JOHANNES VAN ZIJL

ECHOLINK ZS4DZ SOUTH AFRICA

YAESU FT 101 (AT THE MOMENT IN HOSPITAL AT MY BROTHERS QTH, ZS6BTL )

YAESU 857D (THIS IS MY RADIO ON THE AIR AT THIS MOMENT) INSTALL ANALOG METER FOR BETTER SIGNAL RAPORT

ICOM 229 H (USE THIS RADIO AT THIS MOMENT TO GET WEATHER PICTURES FROM NOAA SATILLITES)

ICOM 2TH X2 ( AT THIS MOMENT USE THIS RADIO FOR EMERGENCY COMUNICATION BETWEEN MY QTH AND VECHILES)

500W AM TRANSCEIVER ( CAPS FAULTY) THIS IS THE RADIO IN PICTURE AT THE BOTOM

KENWOOD TK 7102

ASTRA 1000 X3

JR 25 X4 ( RADIOS USED IN MY VECHILES)

BANTAM PX X3

MOTOROLA M120 X3

GENESIS QD X 4

KENWOOD 1000 RECEIVER (MY FIRST CONNECT ION TO HF)

CB RADIOS X 8

HANDHELD RADIOS X14Cmd+x

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