The Kabrini Message (ePub)

Author J.R. Egles was born on November 23, 1949 in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Marie and Bob Egles. He was the eldest of four children. Other than a three-year period from ages nine to twelve when the family lived in Hialeah, Florida, Joe was a lifelong New Jersey resident.

From an early age, Joe developed a fascination of astronomy. Joe ground his own telescope lens from a big thick circular piece of glass about the diameter of a dinner plate. Day after day, he spent endless hours in the basement of his familys home grinding it with rouge. When it was finished, he installed the lens in a large telescope that he built himself from scratch. Joes father set a pipe in concrete in the backyard to serve as a mount for the telescope. Joe was also an avid photographer whose favorite subjects were, of course, the stars and planets. With that telescope, Joe was able to combine his passions for astronomy and photography by capturing amazing photos of the moon, planets and constellations.

The one thing that surpassed even his obsession for astronomy, however, was his enduring love of ham radio. At a very young age, Joe joined the close-knit community of hams when a neighbor introduced him to this unique world of communication.

When the sky was clear, Joe would spend the entire night out in the backyard gazing upward. When it was cloudy, he would retreat inside where hed chat with folks all over the world on his ham radio. Back then, his ham call letters were WB2UXJ, and he could be heard calling, This is Whiskey, Bravo, 2, Uniform, X-ray, Japan throughout the night. Later, after receiving what is known as an Extra Class license, the call letters became K2UX (and the mantra became King, 2, Uncle, X-Ray). It was the pre-Internet version of online chatting.

Therefore, we should not be surprised that The Kabrini Message combines both of Joes loves: outer space and communication.

Joe graduated from Governor Livingston Regional High School in Berkeley Heights, New

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