Biography

Jack of all trades .master of none. I like to do wood carving. I have a workshop all equiped with wood working tools. Give my time to New Brunswick Ground Search & Rescue as a search coordinator searching the woods for missing persons for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I like fishing and hunting and best of all to ride my Palaris 500 ATV.

Do some 2m radio mostly in New Brunswick and Quebec. HF contact all over the world with a G5RV for 80 meters and a Cushcraft 4 elements beam for 10, 15 & 20 meters. Kenwood TS 480 all mode transciver is my rig with 100 watts output. I speak french. I live in Edmundston ( about 3000 thousand feet from the US border the St-John River) which is lacated in Northern New Brunswick, at the border of the State of Maine and the province of Quebec in Canada.

Retired from Canada Customs Border Services as superintendent since April 2006 after 30 years of service. You can find me on Google Earth at N 47.21.52.95 & W 68.17.23.11 Best 73 to all

Gerald VE9GXV

Equipment

Kenwood TS-480
100 watts
Beam antenna Cushcraft 4 elements 3 banders 35 feet high

A G5RV also 35 feet high for 80 meters

4 VHF moble radios kenwood, 1 in my shack, 1 in my truck, 1 in my shop and 1 on my ATV that I use for Search & Rescue operation

2 hand held VHF / UHF