QTH Maarheeze

Maarheeze – JO21TH43RU
The second permanent QTH of PD2JKC is located in Maarheeze, a village in the province of North Brabant in the southern part of The Netherlands.
Compared with my urban QTH in Rotterdam-Ommoord, Maarheeze offers a completely different environment for amateur radio — and that is exactly what makes operating from two QTHs so interesting.

Location Details
QTH: Maarheeze
Municipality: Cranendonck
Province: North Brabant
Country: The Netherlands
Grid Locator: JO21TH43RU
Decimal Coordinates
Latitude: N 51.307767°
Longitude: E 05.622826°
Coordinates
Latitude: N 51°18'27.97"
Longitude: E 05°37'22.19"

Maarheeze – A Different Radio Environment
Maarheeze is a village in the municipality of Cranendonck, in the province of North Brabant.
It is situated in the southern part of The Netherlands, approximately 15 kilometres southeast of Eindhoven and relatively close to both the Belgian and German borders.
Its location gives Maarheeze a very different character from my QTH in Rotterdam.
Where Rotterdam-Ommoord is surrounded by a large urban environment, Maarheeze offers a quieter and more open setting.
For a radio amateur, that difference is particularly interesting.
Different surroundings can mean different local noise levels, different reception conditions and different possibilities for antennas and radio experiments.
From Village to Municipality
Maarheeze has its own long history and was formerly an independent municipality.
During the municipal reorganisation of the area, Maarheeze and Budel became part of what is now the municipality of Cranendonck.
Today, Maarheeze combines the character of a North Brabant village with a convenient location close to Eindhoven and the international borders with Belgium and Germany.

QTH Maarheeze
From my QTH in Maarheeze, PD2JKC is active on the amateur radio bands for contacts, listening and technical experimentation.
Having two QTHs gives me the opportunity to experience amateur radio from two very different locations.
Rotterdam-Ommoord represents the urban environment of one of Europe's major cities.
Maarheeze offers the atmosphere and radio conditions of a smaller community in the south of The Netherlands.
The same callsign.
The same fascination with radio.
But two completely different radio environments.
Two QTHs – One Passion
Radio propagation does not care whether a signal begins its journey from a major international city or from a small village.
Once the signal leaves the antenna, the adventure begins.
Depending on frequency, antenna, propagation and atmospheric conditions, a signal from Maarheeze may travel across Europe or far beyond.
Sometimes the bands are quiet.
Sometimes a distant signal suddenly appears from the noise.
And sometimes the conditions are just right and a station thousands of kilometres away answers:
PD2JKC.
That moment never gets old.
From Maarheeze to the World
Together, my QTHs in Maarheeze and Rotterdam-Ommoord represent two sides of my amateur radio hobby.
Two locations.
Two different radio environments.
One callsign.
And one shared goal:
to experiment, to listen, to make contacts — and to discover how far the next signal will travel.
73 & Good DX!
Johan Jörning – PD2JKC
QTH Maarhe eze
Grid Locator JO21TH43RU
From Maarheeze to the world — one signal at a time.