Charlotte and myself both Born in Kings County Nova Scotia, to Farming Families, my Dad was a Dairy Farmed and Charlotte's Father was a Beef Farmer at the time of our Wedding. We have now resided 38 Years in Kings County New Brunswick as of August 2016.
Operating Conditions today are TS-940SAT + TS-850SAT and FlexRadio with Solid State Linear as well as a SB-220 & a Barker & Williams Folded Dipole for all bands 80 through 6M + Inverted V Dipole on 80 Meters.

Received my first Amateur Radio Licence in 1958, 59 years ago Feb. 14th 2017, I also own the Call VE9DW. My years of employment include several years with the Canada Dept of Agriculture, Beckman Instruments out of California, Atomic Enegy Canada Limited (AECL), and retired while with Nuclear Operations at New Brunswick Electric Power Commission in 1993,
After commissioning of the Reactor Regulating System at Point LePreau NB, and both Emergency Shutdown System's, SDS-1 & SDS-2,  I wrote many Training Manuals and conducted many training sessions as  well as lecture sessions.  I studied Solid State Design, Nuclear Instrumrntation, and Spectroscopy at the University Of  Cambridge in England.
 
My very first Amateur Radio Station was totally Home Made, and have designed and built many High Power Linear Amplifiers from 160 Meters to 24Ghz. Also operated EME (Moon Bounce) for many years, from 2M to 10Ghz, operated my last EME in the year 2006 with a 1296Mhz contact with Howard G4CCH, I was running a single 7289 at approx. 70 watts into a 3.6 Meter (12 foot) Dish.  I will also state that Amateur Radio is NOT a right, but very much a Privilege that I am proud to be a part of.

I also play, or used to play, several instruments, now only Guitar, Tin whistle and Mouth Organs, used to play Acording, Banjo,my driver etc, etc.  I also played Hockey for many years, first as a Defenceman and the last 14 years as a Goalie.  Also water skied many Km's (miles) behind my own ski boat with Brian Millen from New Minas NS as my driver, later on my driver was Smily White who died in a car crash.

The Image below was taken in 1983 and is of Charlottr, VE1XYL, our daughter Colleen now married to (Tim Walsh) with two children of their own (Cadense and Jack) and  live in St. John's NL and Greg Ward, VE1GTW and myself, Darrell, VE1ALQ, or VE9DW.