VE3HRJ Bio
VE3HRJ Jack Hepworth 25 Lakeview Crescent RR1 Rosseau Ontario Canada www.jackhepworth.ca DMR 3023947 As a youngster I was fascinated with radios, aircraft and remote communication. My first experience with radio technology was a Heathkit Crystal Receiver Model CR-1 which I ordered and put together. A long wire antenna out my second story bedroom window with a ground wire to the earth below allowed me to experience headphone reception and many hours of radio listening to AM broadcasts from all over North America. Its an antique now, but it still has a reserved spot in the station to remind me of my childhood in the late 40’s and 50’s growing up in a rural community of Ancaster on the outskirts of Hamilton Ontario. My next radio pursuit involved CB in 1966 – XM43-118 was taken to the air with a Lafayette 23 Channel Transceiver. A Satellite Base transceiver followed the Lafayette mobile. We were fortunate at that time to live in an 11 story high rise apartment 421 Maple