I'm former RCAF, RCSigs and RCArtillery. My specialties are Airborne Communications and HF-SSB. I was employed by Collins Radio as Product Support, Bell Canada, North West Territories as HF-SSB specialist and CBC as station engineer at CFFB. There I operated as VE8YE in the mid 1970's. I am retired from the family Telephone Answering Service and Taxi Company in Brandon Manitoba.
My station was a KWM-2 WE, 512B5 RE, PM-2 and 516F2. I have had the station since 1966 when I was with Collins Toronto. Antenna is a 20/40 meter dipole east-west. I have been inactive on HF for 30 years and am restarting certificate hunting. I am off the air at the moment while I wait for a replacement for my KWM-2 which smoked after 40 faithful years. I will primarily operate days and evenings on 20 & 40 now that I am retired. Except Sunday mornings as I am a lay reader in the Anglican Network in Canada. I have RTTY capabilities and am usually on contest times. At present I have no VHF equipment except a VHF portable. I will QSL 100% once I get a new batch of cards. All QSOs are logged to LOTW.
I am a life member of the ARRL (from 1965) a life member of RAC, and a member of Satern.
In September 2005 I fell off a three foot ladder and managed to crush 2 vertebrae. I can only caution everyone on safety, even at a little height like that.
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