Hear Ye, Hear Ye

Fletch Seagroves, N1MEO

President of Vice,
and
Coordinator of Activities,
is about to speak.

The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, North American branch, also known as AMSAT-NA, held its 13th annual Space Symposium on October 6th and 7th, 1995. Among the activities were the presentation of awards for support of AMSAT in 1995. The Nashua Area Radio Club received an award for its support in the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, or SAREX. The full text of the award, made by Bill Tynan, W3XO, AMSAT-NA President, is:

On behalf of AMSAT, I commend your club for its contributions to the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) Program.

Because of your team's efforts handling QSLs for the STS-64 Space Shuttle mission, students, ham radio operators and others who participated in that SAREX mission have a coveted reminder of their opportunity to hear or work the astronauts on board the Space Shuttle.

The tremendous success of the SAREX program can only be accomplished through the many dedicated volunteers, such as you who work towards the common cause of promoting Amateur Radio, science and technology, and space exploration.

And let’s not forget to thank Joel, KD1ON, for organizing that effort. For more about AMSAT, check out their web page at http://www.amsat.org.

For those of you still looking forward to getting your amateur license, there will be a Technician class starting in February. The actual dates, times, and location will be announced at the February meeting.

The course prepares you to take (and pass!) the Novice and Technician written exams. Passing both will allow you to operate on amateur frequencies above 30 MHz.

And if you’ve already passed a code test, and are looking to improve your speed, the Nashua Area Radio Club is starting a slow speed CW net. Here’s a perfect opportunity to improve your code in the company of friends. The net will be on 10 meters, somewhere in the vicinity of 28.400 MHz. This is the center of the Novice/Technician phone sub-band and will let us switch over to voice if we get lost or confused.

Anyone able to operate on 10m is welcome, including those 30 WPM folks. After all, we need something to challenge us. This is also a perfect opportunity for folks like Al, WA1TYB to maintain those CW skills that have proven so valuable in his life.

The net is on Wednesday nights at 8PM. For you military types that’s 2000 hours, and for you engineers, Mickey’s big hand is on the 12 and his little hand is on the 8.

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