<div dir="ltr"><table border="" cols="1" width="5%" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://jproc.ca/rrp/alert_eureka_satdish.jpg" alt="alert_eureka_satdish.jpg" height="329" width="485"></td></tr><tr><td>The Skull Point location as seen in April 1982. Upper Paradise is approximately 3,000 feet to the back of Skull Point and approximately 500 feet higher in elevation. The smaller dish is a 12' reflector that was installed and used for the original propagation measurements from Skull Point in 1978. Another 12 foot dish was installed at Upper Paradise for the same purpose. These two names (Skull Point and Upper Paradise) were related to events and personnel at the time so they have struck. Note the microwave tower to the right of the larger dish. <i>(Photo courtesy Griff Toole, MSN Groups)</i></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://jproc.ca/rrp/alert_skullpoint.jpg" alt="alert_skullpoint.jpg" height="321" width="485"></td></tr><tr><td>This is the Skull Point station as seen in summer. Although barely visible, there is a microwave dish mounted on a tower behind the second shelter from the right. The station is approximately 98 feet (30 metres) above the fijord. <i> (Image provided by Bill Robinson)</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-07-26 13:42 GMT+01:00 João Costa > CT1FBF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ct1fbf@gmail.com" target="_blank">ct1fbf@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ham radio at the top of the world<br>
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An article about the wireless facilities at the Alert base in Nunavut<br>
describes amateur radio operation at the northernmost permanently<br>
inhabited place in the world<br>
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Amateur radio played a key role in helping to maintain high morale<br>
among the station's personnel - both for its operators and those<br>
wishing to pass messages or using a phone patch to keep in touch with<br>
home.<br>
It was especially important in the days when mail came every 6 weeks.<br>
The "ham rig" was always referred to as the "backup" communications<br>
system, hence the justification for its existence.<br>
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Amateur radio saw its beginnings at Alert Wireless Station in 1957,<br>
when Earle Smith was authorized by the Department of Transport (DoT)<br>
to use his own call sign VE8AT for the very first station . This was<br>
the same call sign which he used in Whitehorse, Yukon where he was<br>
issued VE8AT in 1954 upon being transferred in from 408 Squadron Goose<br>
Bay, Labrador where he was on Temporary Duty during SHORAN operations.<br>
Earle's first call sign, issued in 1948, was VE1SA.<br>
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Read the full article at<br>
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