The Adventures
of N2LQH

Do You Have Apple Cash or Cash App for Venmo????

A stranger listening to our local repeater tracked me from 145.390 to my cell phone, Venmo and my website in a single day. What it taught me about how public ham radio really is, and why you should redact before you feed the AI.

K3LR Adventure published in SWR Magazine

The Day I Spoke to the Last Citizen of the USSR

I don’t talk much about being a ham radio operator. Truth be told, I was off the air for a long time — years where the…

Get on the Air for the 2026 New Jersey QSO Party!

The Burlington County Radio Club runs the 2026 New Jersey QSO Party on September 12 — here's how to get on the air, why it's an easy contact, and how our clubs can rack up an aggregate score together.

New QSL Cards Are In — Thanks, Randy

There’s a particular satisfaction in holding a stack of cards with your own callsign on them for the first time in a new design — and…

The Sound of Nothing: A Morning at the Pack Rats 10 GHz MDS Test

There’s a particular kind of quiet that happens when a dozen people are all straining to hear a signal that isn’t there anymore. That’s the whole…

My New TX-472 – Getting the Tower

Part 1 of a three-part series on a new-to-me US Tower TX-472: how a straight-line storm, an oak tree, a 40-ton crane, and six months of insurance limbo ended with a 92-foot tower parked in my yard.