A radio hobbyist for almost 30 years, Eddie still maintains a strong interest in scanning and amateur radio while dabbling in SWLing and medium-wave DXing.

Eddie served three terms as the Vice President of the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club, one of the largest ham radio clubs in the country. He also spent several years on the Board of Directors and several years as Hamfest Chairman.

Eddie has been appointed as the section's Public Information Coordinator for the ARRL Hudson Division's NLI section.

Eddie's involvement with scanning goes back to the 70's when his parents bought him a Regency scanner for Christmas one year. It was during this time period that he became educated in the hobby from the folks associated with the Radio Communications Monitoring Association (RCMA). Later on Ed got involved with the North East Scanning News (NESN) and The All Ohio Scanner Club (AOSC). It was while involved with these organizations that Ed picked up an interest in writing and started to contribute to their newsletters.

From there, Chuck Gysi-N2DUP convinced Ed to write an article for Radio Shack's "in-house" magazine called RADIO and then Ed started writing for several now defunct scanner periodicals.

Currently, Ed is a staff columnist with National Communications Magazine, and authors many freelance articles for magazines such as Monitoring Times and Popular Communications.

For more info on the radio monitoring hobby you can visit a web site put together by Skip Arey-N2EI that is a collaborative effort of numerous authors and other influential characters in the hobby radio community. The website, located at: http://www.scannerscum.com, showcases some of the writing and other interests of Ed and his associates.  

Other interests include spending time with his family, listening to classic rock and new country music, and following the two New York Baseball teams as well as the NASCAR circuit.