My QTH

I live 6 miles north of the City of Dryden, Ontario, located in the heart of Northwestern Ontario. Dryden is on the Trans Canada Highway between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba and about 90 miles north of International Falls, Minnesota.

My antenna system consists of a Mosley TM-34 M WARC, 20m-10m (5element 5 band HF beam, 21' boom) at 56', a TGM V50-5T(5 element 6 meter beam, 12' boom) at 64', a Comet GP-9, (17'-6" vertical 2m&70cm) at 66', all these are turned by a CDE Ham VI rotor on a 56' Delhi free standing tower.

My wires antenna is a 250' center fed Zep, 55' at apex and 35' at each end (160m-6m).

In the very right of the picture is my 200' Beatty tower for the 2m and 6m repeaters. The 2 meter is VA3YHD, 147.150(TX), 147.750(RX) with a commercial Sinclair 210-C4 antenna at the top. The radio is a commercial GE Mastr II repeater, a 60 watt continuous duty transmitter with  6 can Sinclair pass, reject cavities. It is all run by a Link Communications, RLC-Club Deluxe controller and digital voice recorder. It  has two full duplex ports to run both repeaters and can link the two together with the controller. It also homes a 6m GE Mastr Exec II receiver 52.150(RX) and a 70cm GE Mastr Exec II transmitter which sends the 6m receive signal to the TX site 7 miles to the west for the split sight repeater. The antenna system for 6m receive is 3 phased dipoles (Decibel Products), top at 190'. A small beam for the 70cm link sends the 6m receive signal to the transmit sight which is the home of the VE3YHD, 444.900(TX), 449.900(RX), 70cm repeater. This has a 6 meter 45 watt GE Mastr Exec II transmitter. It is a 104' free standing Trilon tower with a Sinclair 310-C8 antenna for 70cm and 2 phased dipoles (Decibel Products), 95' at the top for the 6 meter, 75 watt transmitter.

I enjoy  mostly rag chewing on HF and working DX from my mobile station and working on repeaters.  6 meter is one of my favorite bands, working  Sporadic-E and Aurora.