What is the NJ-QRP club?
NJ-QRP is an informal club organized to promote QRP activities in and around New Jersey. We currently have about 150 members (see our member roster) and meet monthly in central NJ. There are no officers of the club and very little administration. Members volunteer to coordinate the activities in which they are interested.
Vince WA2ECP (vpassione@att.net) and George N2APB (n2apb@amsat.org) coordinate our meetings which are often "show and tell" sessions and a chance to gab with other QRPers. The meetings are held roughly once a month ... contact us for more info. We also do club construction projects, organize trips and participate in QRP field events. Click here for a summary of our last meeting.
How do I Join?
All you need to do to join NJ-QRP is read this and ask to be included in the club. There are no dues or other obligations. If you are interested in the NJ-QRP club click here to send mail to Vince.
The NJ-QRP keeps in touch between meetings on the NJ-QRP Listserv. This is an email reflector (similar to QRP-L but much smaller) that anyone may subscribe to. For more information about the NJ-QRP Listserv click here.
About our Server and its Host:
The server on which these pages are running, as well as the NJ-QRP listserv, is provided and maintained by Virtual On-Ramp, LLC (http://www.vramp.com) and its gracious general manager Bob Applegate, K2UT in Marlton, NJ (bob@vramp.net).
The NJQRP website and the listserv have been graciously provided for free since early 1997 by Virtual On-Ramp, a very good and responsive ISP in the southern Jersey area. Bob Applegate, K2UT is the general manager of this company and also has been a loyal NJ-QRP Club member since our very early days.
We approached Bob when I took the reigns of the website and asked him for some space. Unbelievably, he tossed in:
1) a listserv so we could all communicate over the Internet;
2) Bob provides CGI programming capability that I occasionally take advantage of in my maintenance/updates to the website;
3) Bob provides server-side maintenance of the listserv (updates to the email addresses when the normal subscribe/unsubscribe means get tangled);
4) Bob provides regular increases to our server disk space allocation WITHOUT ASKING whenever I go crazy with my updates to the club website (notice we're up to 52MB of disk space!)
5) Bob is an active contributor to the listserv discussions, especially when it concerns vhf technical and operating topics;
6) Bob is an active contributor to our club projects ... he's the project manager for the MicroBeacon project (design originator and development slave driver (I'm one of the slaves ;-);
7) Bob also provided the DOMAIN naming we so enjoy (www.njqrp.org) FOR FREE;
8) Bob has provided me with all sorts of extra capabilities for maintaining the website, but I've just been unable to take advantage of everything at our disposal because of sheer time availability (e.g., advanced CGI, JavaScripting, automated forms, and more).
Thanks Bob!
... de n2apb
