Biography

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HELLO FELLOW HAMS

As a youth I was influenced by my Dad, Howard Nessel VE6VW and VE8SS (SK). He was a signals operator in the service and a great ham radio operator! 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, (one can never have enough of that!HI HI ...) to my rigs SIGNAL 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 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 homebrew X beam for 20 meters, A 80 meter folded dipole and a 40 meter inverted V. My rig was a FT-767 coupled to a SB 200 and 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 and 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.

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

New rig Kenwood TS 590 SG,
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 ?!?!()*&^%^%# ???!

November 2024 working on a delta loop for 40 meters shortend with 3 loads.
Fed with 450 ohm Ladder line,
At 30 feet AGL
A 4:1 balun ,
A remote ATU,
50 feet back to shace of 50 ohm 213 Coax...!!!

! ! ! YES YES YES ! ! ! Way less noise and a louder signal .... SO HAPPY
wnat to say Bite Me AURORA HOLE ..... my biggest acoplishement to gettint out a signal from UNDER THE ABSORBTION LAYER .....
December 2024 test the loop dai dec.1,2024 and poooooof it works seems good on all bands so far > > > ! ! ! < < <

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

Just A Humble shack

Rig: Kenwood TS 590 SG
AMP Heathkit SB- 200 reworked
ATU: LDG RT - 600
80M Hamstick Vertical By ProComm 500 watt PEP Ver.
ATU CHINA KIT 1000 Watt Ver.
Antenna: Loaded Delta Loop fo 40 Meters shotend 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 tring to stay under the Aurora Absorbtion Layer
with Low angle radiating antennas ..
THE GOAL is any how.....

73

Good DX

Mite see U down the log ! ! !