Biography

born 1937 in germany emigrated to canada in 1957,got married to margaret my wife in
1959 we have two children 5 grand children and 3 greatgrandkids.worked 43 years on
the vancouver waterfront 17years as a longshoreman 26years as a foreman.got my ham
license as amateur radiooperator in 1978 and my advanced ticket the following year
was on cw for 8 years then job a transfer and two qth moves along with shiftwork had me
intactive for approx. 20years with my wifes encouragement i got me back into the hobby
mostly on phone hope to get on to cw again some day
73 walter kohler ve7sm

Equipment

hf icom 730,yaesu 950,icom 756pro 3,uhf/vhf icom 2800,antennas hf offcenter fed
dipole at 25m,80m dipole at30m,uhf/vhf diamond x-510hdn