[SJRA-Members] NJQRP club

[Dennis Dura]



*From Larry W2LJ*…….


Once again, I've been giving thought to attempting to pump new life back
into the New Jersey QRP Club. For many, many years it was considered to be
one of the top QRP organizations in the country. It ranked right up there
with the NorCal QRP Club, the Colorado QRP Club, the New England QRP Club
and others.

In the early 2000's, due to the efforts of George N2APB and Joe N2CX and a
host of others, the NJQRP Club reached its azimuth when it sponsored
Atlanticon, the QRP confab of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. It was held in
Baltimore and each year I was dying to go. But my two kids weren't even
really toddlers yet, and with Marianne and I both working full time, it was
an impossibility.

Soon after Atlanticon ceased, it seemed the club started to wither away.
Stalwarts became Silent Keys, others moved away and NJQRP started to become
a shadow of its former self. There were a few times I met with other
members at the food court of one of the malls near Princeton. There were
also a few outdoor gatherings at the park in Grover's Mill - the infamous
landing spot of the Martians in Orson Well's "War of the Worlds". And then
finally there was nothing.

So where does that leave us? The website <http://www.njqrp.club/index.html> was
moved to its present URL location in 2016. As far as I can tell, there have
been no updates. And in all honesty, except for the Skeeter Hunt, there
hasn't been much activity to update the webpage with. Whatever the members
have been up to individually, there's been no real effective means of
communication between them.

George N2APB has moved to Tennessee and N2CX is a Silent Key. There's no
roster, so there's really no way to tell who was a member and who was not,
and what members if any have either moved out of the area or have become
Silent Keys. And since the last iteration of NJQRP, there just may be a
whole new generation of New Jersey QRP'ers anxious to meet their like
minded brethren in the state.

So we start with a new beginning.  I started a Facebook page
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/669775754619545>. As of right now, it's a
public group and I think you can just join. I've also started a Groups.io
group <https://groups.io/g/NJQRP> now that Yahoo groups are defunct. This
group will be an e-mail reflector and our main way of keeping in touch with
each other. If you'd like to join that, you'll have to send me an e-mail (
w2ljqrp at gmail.com) and I'll send you an invitation to join.

Granted, it's not much of a start, but it is a beginning. Hopefully, as the
word spreads and QRPers in New Jersey and the surrounding area become
interested, maybe we can start holding meetings, if we can find a location
that is convenient for all.

I'd like to stress that while the New Jersey QRP Club will primarily serve
local QRPers as far as any future live in person events go, there are no
residency requirements. All are welcome and if we do meet in person, we can
always incorporate a Zoom component as other clubs I belong to have been
doing to include those who can't attend in person for whatever reason.

It's not my job to run the organization, that will be up to the members.
I'm just going to try and re-launch it. So stay tuned - maybe we can light
this candle and get this puppy off the ground!

72 de Larry W2LJ


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