Hello and thanks for stopping by....

I'd like to invite you to stop by my web site to check out some of my other interests. I'm a ham who was married to a ham, Connie (N2ATJ). Sadly, Connie became a Silent Key, due to a stage-4 glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor on September 22, 2013. 

I'm into aviation (private pilot), computers, ORACLE, AOPA, QRP, photography, traffic handling, public service communications, and Life Member of the ARRL, the national association for amateur radio and AMSAT, the amateur radio satellite corporation.

Most recently, I was interviewed by Eric, 4Z1UG, for his excellent QSO Today podcast site. Here is the link to the interview, which "aired" on 10/29/2016:   http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/n2gj

I'm sorry to report that my website is offline for the forseeable future. My ISP was acquired and the new owners arbitrarily disposed of all the content.

Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, wrote a nice article about my former website in his ARRL feature "Surfin'":

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/07/04/1/

My photo galleries can be accessed at: http://www.gjurrens.com

I am a member of all the afore-mentioned organizations, plus the David Sarnoff Radio Club (N2RE) Princeton, NJ http://www.n2re.org ; I am the webmaster for the Delaware Valley Radio Association (W2ZQ) West Trenton, NJ http://www.w2zq.com ; the Raritan Valley Radio Club, one of the oldest continuous radio clubs in the nation (W2QW) http://www.w2qw.org ; the New Jersey QRP group (www.njqrp.org) and the Princeton Emergency Radio Club (N2ARC) http://www.gjurrens.com/oragallery/N2ARC . I serve as the communications liaison to the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey in Princeton, NJ, the lead chapter for disaster services in the state. I'm active with Mercer County ARES (Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator in SNJ) and RACES.

I am a graduate of Rutgers College (at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), with a Masters Degree from The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College Graduate School). I am a Certified Technical Trainer retired from Oracle University (December 2014) as a senior principal instructor, training our customers for in Data Warehousing, Enterprise Data Quality, XML, Data Integration, Oracle GoldenGate and other Oracle software topics.

I can be followed on Twitter, and on Facebook. Look for me on W2QW 146.625 MHz (pl 141.3) or N2RE 146.46 MHz (pl 131.8) on occasion. The W2QW repeater is also linked through Echolink and the AllStar network. 

Member SKCC #5906 ARCI #11256 and NAQCC #3437. I'm a Life Member of ARRL, AMSAT, and 10-10 International #11540).

73, and see you on the ham bands!

GJ