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   Top Picture: Sinclair SRL-201 for Commercial V.H.F Repeater  used by Canadian Red Cross Disaster Response Team here in St.John's NL. and tie off point for G5RV H.F. antenna fed with 300 Ohm twin lead. The picture below is the G5RV. I have added a 20m dipole  since this pic was taken and it is attached to the same mast and its mid point is supported in the tree and the far point is tied to a telephone pole.

    Have been interested in radio and electronics since I was 4 years old,was facinated how pictures appeared on the T.V.screen and how music and voices came from the radio. I built crystal radios and A.M. radio reciver kits in the 1970's,and,was introduced to DX.ING when I started to pick up American and Canadian A.M. broadcast stations later in the evening. A Radio Shack Science Fair 3 transistor Regenerative Short Wave Reciever kit that I purchased with birthday and Christmas money got me started in H.F listening. I started with the BBC and other European broadcaters,but I soon tired of that and tuned the amateur,military ,utility bands and that was it. I wanted to get an amateur licence and I learned all that I could to prepare me for ham radio.Listening to local hams on the original VO1GT repeater on146.94 MHz was very educational as most of these hams worked in radio and televison engineering and other areas of electronics in the 1970's.  I finally was licensed as VO1XH on May 5,1994,about 30 years since  I was facinated by the T.V. and radio. Equipment here is a Kenwood TS570D into a 1/2 wave dipole antenna for 20m,a  G5RV for the rest of the H.F. bands. An Icom,IC290H 2m All-Mode along with a Kenwood, TM261A in one of my vehicles a Realistic HTX212 2m mobile I use in my other vehicle,along with a Realistic HTX202 2m handheld and a Realistic HTX404 for 70cm UHF.

73,Don, VO1XH