Hello From Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. I am a retired high school music teacher from Ontario and am now, along with my XYL,VO1KAC, (also a retired teacher) living in Hearts Delight, NL,  a small out port town about 50 miles (80 km) west of St. John's on the east shore of Trinity Bay.  This used to be our summer home until we both retired. My wife Karen is a volunteer paramedic on the local ambulance service as well as on the executive.  This takes up a lot of her time but it's her way of giving to the community. She just couldn't sit still in retirement...hi!  She's also a trained ARES radio operator and has done NCS on several occasions in the past.

We share the house with  a large yellow Labrador retriever.  All our children are grown and away so it's just the dog and us.

 I hold an advanced class amateur licence and run a relatively simple station using a Yaesu FT 1000MP connected to an all band dipole antenna set up as an inverted vee.  A  manual tuner is used here because of all the ice and snow that accumulates on the antenna during the winter months. Our house is less than 100 yards from salt water.  Usually run no more than 100 watts.

Operate CW on 20 mtrs daytime, 40 mtrs in the evening and like nothing better than a good CW ragchew. I'm always glad to QRS for another op if they want. Operations from here are usually in the 15 to 25 wpm range. Not much of a contester so when a big CW contest is on you'll usually find me on 17 mtrs.

Participate in the Maritime Mobile Service Network on 14.300 when possible as I get a pretty good "look" into the North Atlantic from here. Have had quite a few very interesting experiences relating to maritime mobiles from this location.

I am a member of the FISTS CW Club, #2900 which I got a few years ago when living in VE3 land. My calls in Ontario were VE3CKX , and then VA3ZG.

Also enjoy sailing in the summer months with our McVay sloop and ATVing all year round as there are trails here that go for miles into the back country.

 I do NOT QSL via any bureau. Please QSL direct if you want a card. I return QSL 100%, usually the same day.

Hope to work your station sometime.

Cheers and 73 from Newfoundland     

Doug   VO1DD