A shameless plug for the "Saint Max Net"

I'm a long time member of the Saint Max Net, which is dedicated to the life and martyrdom of St. Maximilian Kolbe. The net has met continuously since it was founded by Lloyd Roach, K3QNT and Dr. Ted Figlock, W1JMJ (SK) in 1998. St. Max is the only canonized saint to have held an amateur radio license and is widely considered to be the patron saint of amateur radio St. Maximilian KolbeCrucifix and St. Max in shack Fr. Maximilian Kolbe was a 20th century Franciscan Catholic priest from Poland who founded the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw and operated amateur radio station SP3RN. Fr. Kolbe was imprisoned by the Nazis at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp (prisoner # 16670) where he volunteered to take the place of one of ten men condemned to death after a prison escape attempt. He was martyred by the Nazis on August 14, 1941 with an injection of carbolic acid following a two week period of forced starvation. He was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II in 1982 with the man saved by St. Max in attendance at the canonization ceremony. A fellow St. Max Net member, Bill La May, K3RMW, has written an excellent biography of St. Max: The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe - Apostle of Mass Communications. The St. Max Radio Net meets on Sunday nights (ET): 7.241 MHz at 2400Z (7 PM EST / 8 PM EDST) - NCS: Lloyd, K3QNT 14.341 MHz at 2200Z (5 PM EST / 6 PM EDST) - NCS: Scott, N0VYU John 15:13

My resurrected blog (sort of)...

Below is an archive of my original blog entries from 2007 through 2011. I more or less stumbled on my old blog archive and thought I'd take this opportunity ty possibly "get things going again". I don't know if this will lead to me actively posting again, but I probably will from time to time. Anyway, it feels good to resurrect a medium that I had originally started in part to honor my late father. That motivation will never change, but let's see where this goes.