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 served as the 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.   

In February of 2010 Nassau County Executive Mangano asked Ed to join a team of volunteer coordinators to produce a classic car show; thus The Cruise To The Show was born... www.cruisetotheshow.com. The show was held on August 15th, 2010 and was a huge success, plans are now underway to produce another show which will take place September 17th & 18th, 2011.

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.