Today in the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving, which was instituted by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, shortly after the Battle...

  The South Plainfield Amateur Radio Club under call sign NJ2SP has done something it hasn't done since 2017. We've come in 2nd Plac...

 I didn't participate in the Zombie Shuffle on October 28th, but I like what I see in the results. After a few years of a modicum of ent...

I look at the sidebar of my blog here and I see a total of 38 posts for the entire year of 2022. Holy Shamoley - that's pretty bad! I kn...

 As always, on the third Saturday of September, the New England QRP Club sponsors QRP Afield. All the rules and regs can be found here -  ht...

Thinking of you in your time of mourning. If there was ever someone who was the epitome of service to their country, it was Queen Elizabeth....

As planned, I set up in the backyard. The Jackite pole held my PAR END FEDZ 40/20/10 aloft and the radio was of course, my KX3. With the ATU...

 This coming Sunday is the annual NJQRP Skeeter Hunt !!! There's still time to get a Skeeter number of you so desire. I will be honoring...

 This was the paddle I used yesterday for FOBB: It's made from a Bulldog style paper clip.  I don't remember from where I got it; or...

I set up on the backyard patio table. The antenna was the PAR END FEDZ held aloft by my 31 foot Jackite pole. I made 14 FOBB QSOs, 1 POTA QS...

This is a personal "rant" and all my own humble and probably misguided opinion, but I'm going to commit it to print, anyway. I...

Gene N5GW is always competitive and nearly always show up in the top 5 or 10 of these QRP operating events. He posted a suggestion on QRP-L ...

The other evening, Bill W2AOF and Ron N2LCZ and I got together via Zoom to submit the Field Day score for NJ2SP (the deadline for entries is...

Just a gentle reminder, FOBB is next Sunday, so if you're thinking of operating portable as a Bee, the time to sign up for a number is g...

  53 years! Where did the time go? Buzz Aldrin is the only crew member left. The flight jacket he wore during the mission is up for auction ...

 I went to the Sussex County Amateur Radio Club Hamfest this morning. I was debating internally about it as the hamfest is about an hour dri...

 My view for the week. Not hard to take, eh? The way this year has gone so far, it's good to be up here again. For a week at least, worr...

Found this photo on the Interweb (my XYL jokingly calls it that). For you newbies who get confused by solar weather index numbers ..... and ...

 "Show up!" That's the theme and that's the bonus. Show up, operate and submit a log and you automatically get 100 Bonus P...

  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable R...