PE1CHQ Harry Keizer

PE1CHQ Harry

On January 22, 2025, Harry Keizer PE1CHQ passed away. He was only 72 years old.

He became a ham radio operator in 1978 and he was very active on 23 cm in those early years. Mainly terrestrial but he also had some EME QSO back then! He worked his first QSO’s in 1982 with VE7BBG, K2UYH and OE9XXI thanks to the support from Jan PA0SSB.

Around 2010 he joined the Dwingeloo dish project and he built his own 4 m dish and started doing 23 cm EME again at home. Harry was a very inspired and enthusiastic guy! Full of ideas.

His second hobby was photography and he made great pictures of birds as he was also very fond of nature. Unfortunately he got ill and although it at first looked like the treatment might be 100% effective and he could be cured, all of a sudden things got worse and he was told he only had a few weeks to live. Despite this prognosis Harry managed to keep going for more than 7 months.

Harry will be missed…