Autor/-in: Spurgeon G. "Spud" Roscoe

Deeply involved in the world of amateur radio for many decades, Spurgeon G. "Spud" Roscoe first fell in love with the hobby in 1956, when he began training with the Radioman Special Royal Canadian Navy. After graduating in 1961, he went on to graduate from the Radio College of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, the Air Services Training School in Ottawa, Ontario, and the National Radio Institute in Washington, DC. He has his First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radio and his Coast Guard Radiotelegraph Operators Certificate. He has operated radio as a radio officer aboard HMS Bounty, in a teaching capacity for young learners interested in the hobby, and as part of the Halifax Amateur Radio Club and the many activities in which they are involved, such as competitions like Field Day. He lives in an apartment in Halifax with his wife of sixty years and continues to operate his station, with call sign VE1BC, to this day.