Blog Highlights


2019



2018
  1. Air scanning in Cape May
  2. JM Gets an iPhone
  3. In Memory of Stephen Gold
  4. Forty Years in Fifteen Years
  5.  
2017
  1. Travels with Clark
  2. Irony of the current protests
  3. Confederates v. Nazis
  4. Twenty Years Ago Tonight
  5. Missed Chances

2016
  1. Going Back
  2. Dave Kuehn--An ALPCA Original
  3. 8th Garden State Meet
  4. Plenty To Say About Speechless
  5. All in Time
  6. First Cape May Working Fire
  7. Goodbye Aunt Millie
  8. Justin's Internet Reading List--Part II
2015
  1. Blaming The Wrong People
  2. Rachel Dolezal Harmed Minorities
  3. My Time at Kessler
  4. So the Super Bowl
  5. Starting 2015 in Cape May
2014
2011

2010
  1. Come for a drink stay for the music
  2. Hersey Miracle 2010
  3. The Wrong Reasons for the Right Arguement
  4. Field Day Fingering 2010-N2SE on the air from  Darlington Park
  5. Arlington Wrap-up
2009
  1. The Christmas Letter
  2. Slow August--NOT!
  3. Poco + Loggins and Messina Live at PNC Bank Arts

    Center
  4. Trip to CT-Branchville School Part I
  5. Surviving Valentine's Day
2008
  1. A Chance Encounter-- Part I
  2. 1st Garden State License Plate Meet
  3. Forget Joe the plumber, here's Justin the

    writer
  4. California Trip 2008
  5. The End of an Era - Tri-Boro Radio Signing

    off
2007

  1. Pascack Valley Class of 1997 Reunion
  2. Better Late Than Never
  3. Field Day Fingering 2007--N2SE Back on the Air

  4. Huntsville Plate Hunting
  5. The Editor Strikes BacK
  6. Transmitting from different locations
2006

  1. It was a success
  2. If I wrote it I should read it
  3. Solve one problem with another
  4. Grown-up Birthday Party
  5. Fellow Ham and Writer
2005
  1. The Week of Thanksgiving-- Part I
  2. Making a call
  3. Loggins and Messina Revisited
  4. Brief note on Peter Jennings
  5. Change of Venue
  6. Welcome to Justin Mattes's Blog
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