NJ Knights of Columbus Amateur Radio Club

06/03/2026

The NJKCARC is operating W1AW/2 on 14.248 MHz until 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time (2000z).

06/01/2026

The NJKCARC Monday night 40m net we be on 7.249 MHz this evening starting at 7:00 P.M. Eastern Time. I am taking early check-ins until then.

05/28/2026

Senator Ted Cruz, on his thoughts on Amateur Radio:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/197MvjL7um/

05/27/2026

The New Jersey Knights of Columbus Amateur Radio Club (NJKCARC) is selling RAFFLE TICKETS!
Take a chance to win $1,000 in Gift Cards! The drawing will be held on Columbus Day (of course).
Good luck to all.

Please contact a club member for tickets, or reach out to me.

Vivat Jésus and 73,

Tom
N2JIE

05/25/2026

The Knights of Columbus Amateur Radio Net is taking check-ins on 7.180 MHz. You do not have to be a Knight of Columbus in order to check into our net.

05/25/2026

John Henry Gunther was the last American--possibly the last soldier from any country--killed in World War II. He was also a Knight of Columbus.

Please remember the sacrifices of those who gaves their lives for this great country of ours.

Henry Nicholas John Gunther (June 6, 1895 – November 11, 1918) was an American soldier and possibly the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I.[1][2][3] He was killed at 10:59 a.m., about one minute before the Armistice was to take effect at 11:00 a.m.[2][4]

05/23/2026

Here are where our members live throughout the state of New Jersey, and beyond. Join us. Help us add some stars!

05/23/2026

Tonight, we remember one of our Founding Menbers, John Marrin, who left us just last month. We will miss you, John.

73,

Tom
N2JIE

05/22/2026

Contact W2MMD During The Club QSO Party!
By Jim Wright N2GXJ

Want to have some fun by making a radio contact with your own Club, W2MMD? You can, and it will be appreciated! Turns out W2MMD is signed up to be a Club station participant in the Club QSO Party the weekend before field day. You heard about this event in person at the April Club meeting, and may have seen it mentioned in the May CrossTalk. Now for some more details.

There is an unusual “percent of your Club members who participated” thing that goes into overall scoring. And there is an unusual permission to use repeaters for contacts too. Well, let’s have some fun with that (and toss some points towards the Club in this QSO party while we’re at it)!

If you’re not doing much on Friday night, June 19, 2026 at 8pm, give W2MMD/67 a call on our 2 meter repeater! I’ll be logging contacts for a half hour or so with as many of our Club members that call in that I can. Think we can get 100 Club members to show up in log as participants this way? Help boost our “percent of your Club members who participated” totals. If you call in, we might! It’s that easy! EchoLink is accepted! The more, the merrier!

Saturday morning, June 20, 2026, out at the Clubhouse, Mike Pentimall KC3VTF, a.k.a “Saturday Mike” will be running the HF station as W2MMD/67, logging as many contacts as he can. Come on by and help him make and log a few Q’s if you get the chance!

Want to see how many Club stations you can contact in addition to ours? It should be fun. And might be a good way to check your field day equipment (if you want it to) ahead of the following weekend. They even have a special update to the N1MM logger, if you want to get practice with that logger. You can access the update from : https://sites.google.com/view/wwwclubqsopartyorg/logs-submission. General info about the QSO party at : http://www.clubqsoparty.org.

Hope to hear you on the repeater Friday night June 19th!