Sebastian Wessels
My last name is pronounced Vessels. I live in Longmont, Colorado and I am active in this local club. First licensed in 1991 in South-Africa as ZR6BW and this call is still valid. Moved to the US (Colorado) in 1996 and used ZR6BW/WØ as a reciprocal call for about a year. After that took the Novice/Tech license and got the call KCØCQQ. Upgraded to General and Advanced and eventually Extra when the code requirement was lowered to 5 wpm. Changed to vanity call NSØW in Sept of 2000. Some time prior to this Richard Olsen (now K9BWI) held the NSØW call.
Even though I was licensed for HF in 2000, I did not do much HF until spring of 2007 when we moved to a house with enough real estate to be able to put up decent antennas. I am not a big time awards chaser, but I got WAS on 80m with the help of the Geratol net. I also realized that even though I am not even close to a basic DXCC award, I actually qualify for "Worked all Continents". In case you are wondering - Antarctica is not needed for that. I took my cards with me to Dayton this year and walked over to the JARL desk and they promptly printed me a WAC certificate after I handed them a check.
I like making DX contacts but I do not like contesting. Getting to know the person on the other end and to find out more about his environment is the interesting part to me. You can QSL me direct or via the buro and if you do it direct, I would be happy to reciprocate on my dime.
Last updated: April 26, 2011
Shack featured on the cover of Ham Radio Magazine
My buddy K8CRM loves the now defunct "Ham Radio" magazine and owns
the full set on CD. He recently brought my attention to the December 1987 edition that featured my shack on the cover.
Rip, NVØM was kind anough to lend me his copy of the magazine so I could do a full color scan of the cover.
The CD/DVD set that is generally available, only has black and white images.
Ok, I am just kidding about being featured, but if you look at this you will see what I mean.
To get a better idea of the actual size of the shack look at this.
Just for scale - I am six feet tall.