Biography

!!!!!!!!! IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE !!!!!!!!!
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HELLO FELLOW HAMS

As a youth I was influenced by my Dad, Howard Nessel VE6VW and VE8SS (SK1971 RIP DAD). He was a signals operator in the service and a great ham radio operator:

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In his shack I had my own spot where I had a RCA AR-88 receiver and listened to the phone side of the bands in the mid and late 1960's. Too many stories to tell here! As time passed I got interested in CB (11 meters) and kept busy building beams and inverted V's, adding power (you can never have enough of that!) to my station and working the world on my CB. More time elapsed and the ham radio bug got me. I passed my Basic and Advanced Amateur Radio tests and was licensed in 1991. Another great ham VE8SM Stew Monro ( Now a SK ) was my Elmer in Hay River. He was my “go to” guy for help. My station went up on the south shore of the Great Slave Lake, In the subdivision of West Channel in the town of Hay River.
I built a X beam for 20 meters, a 80 meter folded dipole and a 40 meter inverted V. My rig was a FT-767, a SB 200 and A MFJ tuner. The good old days were filled with DX back then! That was the start of my ham radio interest from many different locations:Lutsel KE', Nortwest Territories, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta and now Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. In Fort Chipewyan, Alberta There were but 8 hams in my small town of 1200 pepole, Wire antennas were common with our group and this was the beginning of my interest in digital and more advanced radio configurations via satellite UHF. Our club call was VE6YPY.(THE LITTLE BIT SOUTH OF 60' RADIO SCIENCE CLUB)


NOW IN Yellowknife NT

It’s now 2020
The world is suffering from Covid 19. My current humble shack is in the corner of our front room apartment in Yellowknife. I put up a home brew vertical and use an LDG 600-watt remote antenna tuner. Rig is a Kenwood TS-480 SAT, and A self Biult PC, I mostly do FT-8 and sometimes SSB as conditions have been horrible up here for a long time.
I mostly do FT-8 and sometimes SSB as conditions have been horrible up here for a long time.

New location In yellowkfife, 2022
CONDO UNIT HMM ANTENNA ???

New rig Kenwood TS 590 SG, UP GRADE NEW ICOM IC- 7300 ! ! ! "WHOW" ! ! !
LDG RT 600
Heathkit SB-200
EFHW 40 METERS
Works but load noise from Utility Power ....

Working on a solution to that and the Aurora Absorbtion Layer ?!?!()*&^%^%# ???!
I met VE8MT quiet awhile ago holy moly. One can not say enough about this ham he is a radio communication senior technician for NAV Canada. and the best friend any one could have .

Mike VE8MT helps me with every aspect of the hobby building from scratch fixing …. No no no…. the smoke gets out I call ve8mn on the phone the other 2 way radio we all now posses and he comesith over,,, as soon as he can and puts the smoke back in… !!!

November 2024 working on a delta loop for 40 meters shortend with 3 loads.
Fed with 450 ohm Ladder line,
At 30 feet West corner and fed 450ohn, up to 55 feet East corner, then north to 45 feet and back to the west corner AGL.
A 4:1 balun ,
A remote ATU,
50 feet back to shack whit 50 ohm 213 Coax...!!!

! ! ! YES YES YES ! ! ! Way less noise and a louder signal .... SO HAPPY
want to say Bite Me AURORA HOLE ..... my biggest accomplishment to getting out a signal from UNDER THE ABSORBTION LAYER .....
December 2024 test the loop Dec.1,2024 and poooooof it works seems good on all bands so far

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I MUST MENTION A THANK YOU TO VA7KK GERARD A GREAT MAN AND HELPS ME VERY MUCH
& A LOCAL HAM VE8MT MICHAEL [ HE PUTS THE SMOKE BACK IN AFTER I LET IT OUT ]
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aNd the storY will continue some time SoOn */o !



MORE TO FOLLOW AS TIME AND PLASES ! ! !
CHANGE HAPPENS HAMS GET OLD, SOME PASS ON AND .... 73

Good BLESS Those Sighlent Keys --... ...--
RIP FELLOW HAMS



Absobstion Layer MY WORD &%##^$#^&$..

" !!! IT IS A GREAT BLACK HOLE FOR RF IN THE SKY !!! "
...... WERE EVERY THING IS SUCKED AWAY ......
!!!!! MITE HEAR IT BACK SOME 200 YEARS FROM NOW !!!!!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

The Humble shack

Rig: Kenwood TS 590 SG ! ! !
Now UP GRADED
! ! ! to: A Icom IC-7300 WHOHOHW ! ! !
AMP Heathkit SB- 200 reworked
ATU: LDG RT - 600
40M Delta Loop, Hamstick Vertical By ProComm 500 watt PEP Ver.
ATU CHINA KIT 1000 Watt Ver. WORKS OK = +/-
Antenna: Loaded Delta Loop for 40 Meters shortened to 32 feet per leg at 30 feet fed on on corner with 450 ohm ladder line and a 4:1 Balun and a remote ATU.

Always trying to stay under the Aurora Absorption Layer
with Low angle radiating antennas .. THE ULTIMATE CHANANGE

THE !!!.....GOAL is any how.....!!!

More info at:

https://www.qrz.com/db/VE8MN

https://www.qrz.com/db/VE8RST

https://www.qrz.com/db/VE6YPY

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73

Good DX

Mite see U down the log ! ! !