I am Fred van den Bosch, Since February 2011 I live with Minh in Vietnam in a small village
near Nha Trang . First something about myself.
ICT I have worked for more then 35 years in ICT. During that time I did almost everything in that
field: programming, mainly in COBOL, worked shortly as system-analyst, many years as
system-designer and information analyst and the last 10 years as consultant. Since mid 2005
I have pre-pension and so a lot of time for.....
Weather satellites
For more than 25 years I am a member of the Dutch "Werkgroep Kunstmanen" (Workgroup
Artificial Moons). In the beginning I received signals with a BC603 and a FET-converter.
Then other activities became more important but the interest remained. So a couple of
years ago (around 2003) I started again. First with receiving the polar satellites and later
Meteosat. The results can be seen on the satellite pages. Because I have a back-ground
in ICT I also started automating the whole process. At the moment the whole system is
processing unattended.
Weather
The satellite images also made me become interested in the weather. So I started late 2004 with combining satellite images and meteorological information. How this looks can be viewed on the weather pages.
Asia
I am interested in Asia since I was about 8 years old. In that period I stayed a couple of times by a family who lived in Indonesia for many years. They told me stories and showed me pictures. They taught me some Bahasa Indonesia and I learned a lot of the culture. Later I visited Indonesia a couple of times and also worked there for some time.
In 1997 I visited Vietnam for the first time. It was a real experience to visit the places from which I already knew the names from the tv-broadcasts of the war. After that first time I went 2 more times, to join Tet (the Vietnamese New Year) and to visit more places.
In the beginning of 1999 I decided to take a sabbatical leave. Because I already met my present partner I decided to spend that half year in Vietnam. I rented a house in Ho Chi Minh City. I worked for some time teaching and giving massages in a large massage-salon. Since September 2000 my partner lived in Holland too until we moved in February 2011.
