In these difficult times where many of us are practicing social distancing, Amateur Radio gives us many opportunities to have fun on-the-air and stay in touch with friends. The Nashua Area Radio Society has several weekly on-air nets that can provide you with some Amateur Radio fun as well as a chance to socialize with friends. We are also taking our April and May Meeting online and add a new, 40m Phone net, to our lineup. You can read more about our plans here.
Our Existing On-Air Nets
The Nashua Area Radio Society currently holds two weekly on-air Nets. The purpose of our nets includes:
- Testing and using our equipment; being prepared to support communications in emergency situations
- Sharing information about Nashua Area Radio Society upcoming activities and events
- Sharing our recent Amateur Radio Activities
- Having Fun!
All licensed Amateurs are welcome to join our weekly nets.
Weekly Repeater Net
Our weekly repeater on-air net is held on Sunday Evening at 7:30 pm eastern time (Monday 00:30 UTC during standard time). The format of our Repeater Net includes a weekly discussion question or two which gives all who participate a chance to share something about themselves and their interests. This Net also includes information about upcoming Nashua Area Radio Society activities and events. We conduct our weekly nets on the N1IMN-N1IMO Repeater System whose wide coverage includes New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
You can access our Repeater Net via any of these repeaters or via EchoLink as N1IMO-R.
We have a different Net Control Operator (NCO) for our Repeater Net each week. The NCO for the next few nets posted in our On The Air Forum here on our website. The NCO will also post a list of the operators who check in each week in this same forum.
We hope to hear you on our next Weekly Repeater Net!
Weekly HF Net
We also hold on Weekly HF on-air net on the 10m band. This Net begins at 8:30 pm eastern time (Monday 01:30 UTC during standard time) on Sunday evenings and features a round-table chat format. We hold our HF Net on or around 28.480 MHz using SSB Phone mode. The NCO for our HF Net can be contacted here. You can find more information about this net on our club calendar. All licensed Amateur Radio operators are invited to join our HF net.
We Are Going Online!
We are inviting all Nashua Area Radio Society Members, Internet Subscribers, and all US-based Hams to join us for online our April Meetings.
NARS will hold our meeting using the Zoom online service. Zoom is free and all you need to join us is an Internet-connected Windows or Mac PC or a Tablet (ex. an iPad).
Here are the zoom links for our April Meetings:
- April 7th, 7 pm Eastern – Nashua Area Radio Society Regular Meeting. Our speaker will be Jim Idelson K1IR who will talk about Tower Safety. Join Zoom Meeting
- April 14th, 7 pm Eastern – Nashua Area Radio Society Tech Night. Fred, AB1OC will provide a presentation on How to Get Started in 2m EME (Moon Bounce). Join Zoom Meeting
We suggest that you join our meetings online at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start times.
A New HF Net is Comming!
NARS will also be conducting a new, after-meeting on-air net on 40m after our meetings. We will hold new after meeting on-air nets on or around 7.260 MHz LSB. Look for us to post an update on the final frequency on our home page (and here) just before our nets begin. We hope that these nets will give our members and guests a chance to communicate and socialize with each other. Folks who join us for the preceding online meetings will also be able to monitor our new after meeting nets via the online share.
We will also be live streaming video and audio from our nets to the Nashua Area Radio Society Facebook page.
We hope to see all NARS Members, Internet Subscribers as well as some new Ham friends around the United States and around the World join us for one of our Nets and/or join us for our April online meetings.