We held our first session of Fall 2019 Ham Bootcamp on Saturday October 26th. Ham Bootcamp is a series of programs to help new or inactive Hams to gain the skills to get on the air. This session was held at Fred, AB1OC’s and Anita, AB1QB’s QTH. We focused on activities for amateurs with Technician Licenses.
Our first activity was HT Programming. A few attendees brought their HTs and Fred, AB1OC programmed them with local repeaters.
We did a practice repeater net, similar to the Nashua Area Radio Society weekly repeater net that we hold on Sunday evenings.
Next, Fred, AB1OC gave the Boot-campers a tour of his Antenna farm . Fred spoke about the design of his antenna farm including HF, VHF and Satellite antennas, grounding and shack entries.
After the antenna tour, we went inside and toured Fred and Anita’s shack. We had a pizza lunch followed by operating satellites.
Our next ham bootcamp session will be held on Saturday November 9th, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
We will focus on General class activities;
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- How to set up your 1st HF station
- HF Operating
- Digital Operating
- Ground Plane Antenna Kit
See the club calendar for more details. Please RSVP to Anita, AB1QB at [email protected] if you would like to attend.