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12 August 2014 | by Larry W2LJ | Share | | Leave a Comment (2)

This coming weekend is International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend. Here’s an article I caught online:

http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_4b4d8e82-21ea-11e4-9326-001a4bcf887a.html

I’ve had the opportunity to work various lighthouses and lightships the world over throughout the years and it’s always been fun. Back when the Piscataway Amateur Radio Club was in its hey-day, we activated the Twin Lights Lighthouse in Atlantic Highlands, NJ.

That was a few years back, and my memory is fuzzy on the details. We did a lot of special event stations as a club, and I don’t think this activation was actually connected to ILLW. It may have been, but I don’t recall it being so.

New Jersey is home to eleven lighthouses. They are:

I’m not sure how many, if any, will be activated for ILLW Weekend. Even though the Skeeter Hunt falls the weekend before ILLW Weekend, maybe next year we can make lighthouses part of the theme and do some “pre-activations”. What say?

Here’s a little video “advertising” a Spanish lighthouse that will be activated this coming weekend. The link was provided by fellow ETS clubmember, Don K2DSV. This definitely gets the juices flowing, thinking about all the exotic lighthouses that will be on the air this coming weekend.

72 de Larry W2LJ
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Larry Makoski, W2LJ, is a regular contributor to AmateurRadio.com and writes from New Jersey, USA. Contact him at [email protected].

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