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I am a DX'er and digital contesting op. I am the current membership chairperson for the Nashua Area Radio Society.
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2020 Field Day Results

The ARRL has published the 2020 Field Day Results in the December 2020 Issue of QST.

Field Day 2020 Rule Changes

Due to the pandemic, the ARRL made two rule changes this year.  The first is that stations in category 1D could contact other 1D stations.  The second is that individual submissions could specify a club affiliation and scores would be aggregated by club.

Virtual Site Visit on Zoom
Virtual Site Visit on Zoom

NARS held several activities to help members operating in Field Day to earn bonus points toward their scores.  A virtual site visit via Zoom with Gary Gasdia (father of member Ryan, KC1KJS), who is a member of the Hudson School Board and Community Emergency Response Team Members Patrick, W1YTT, Joe, AC1BG and Dan, W1MUZ helped members with bonus points.  Sterling, AK1K, trained us all and hosted a messaging net to help us get the messaging bonus.   These bonus points helped to increase our score.

Field Day 2020 Scores

Thanks to all of our members who submitted their scores for the Nashua Area Radio Society, our efforts resulted in a total club score of 14,952.  From a quick scan of the line scores published by the ARRL and back of the envelope calculation, we placed in the top 3% of all clubs!

Jeff, AC1FX Operating at Field Day 2020
Jeff, AC1FX Operating at Field Day 2020

We had a total of 16 members contribute their scores toward our aggregate club score:

CallNameOperatorsClassPowerTotal
AB1QBAnita KemmererAB1QB, AB1OC, KC1IMK, AB1BY3ELow3930
AK1KSterling EanesAK1K1ELow1762
NE1RDScott AndersenNE1RD1B1BQRP1300
W1XMMBrian QuickW1XMM1ELow1278
N1CEOPeter DabosN1CEO1ELow1218
NF1HAndrew WuelfingNF1H1DLow958
AC1EVJon TurnerAC1EV1EHigh914
W1YCZMatt TrulandW1YCZ1EHigh838
K1BRMJim LajoieK1BRM1DLow506
NU1TJorgen DahlNU1T1DLow502
W1AKIAron InsingaW1AKI1DLow446
KC1IMKKeith SangilloKC1IML, KC1IMK1DLow390
KC1IMLMark SangilloKC1IML, KC1IMK1B2Low388
AC1FXJeff LalmondAC1FX1DLow214
W1TEDTed TrostW1TED1ELow194
KC1DXLAnthony RizzoloKC1DXL1DLow114

To learn more about our members Field Day 2020 operations, see the field day articles on our blog.

To review the ARRL Results Article, visit the ARRL Web site at https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2020/Field-Day-2020-FinalQSTResults.pdf

To search the 2020 ARRL Field Day score database, visit http://www.arrl.org/results-database  and select 2020 ARRL Field Day from the drop down box.

Winter Field Day 2021

Winter Field Day is coming up on January 30-31.  Similar rule changes have been made due to the pandemic.  If you are interested in operating on Winter Field Day, review and reply to Craig, N1SFT’s post in the Field Day Forum.  Also, plan to join our January Membership Meeting, where Craig will talk about Winter Field Day.

Anita, AB1QB

Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter

Configuring Emails from Our Forums

We have recently added some new features related to our Forums and some members may be getting more emails from the website.  Here is some information on how you can control the emails that you receive that result from Forum Posts.

There are two types of emails associated with forum posts – Individual Emails are sent with each post or reply.  Digests, are sent periodically and contain all forum posts and replies since the last Digest that was sent.

By default, new Members and Internet Subscribers are setup to be subscribed to all forums.  If you are subscribed to a forum, you will receive an email for each new post or reply.

Limiting Individual Forum Emails

You can change which individual emails that you have signed up for by logging into the website and following the steps below.  You can also change the frequency that you receive digests.

Click on your name where you login
Click on your name where you log in to bring up your Profile
  1. Click on your name on the left-hand side of the page under MEMBER LOGIN.  That will bring up your Profile Page.

    Click on Subscriptions on the left side of your profile page
    Click on Subscriptions on the left side of your profile page
  2. On the left side of your profile page, just below the Avatar or Picture, click on “Subscriptions”

    Unsubscribe from individual forum emails
    Unsubscribe from individual forum emails
  3. If you do not want to receive emails for every new post in a forum, you can click on the pink box with the X in it next to the Forum name to unsubscribe from that forum. We recommend you do not unsubscribe from the General Information Forum as that is where we send information about our meetings and events and those may be time-critical.  We also recommend that members do not unsubscribe from the Members Forum for the same reason.

    Edit your digest settings
    Edit your digest settings
  4. Digests are enabled by default to go out Daily and will include a summary with links to the day’s posts for our Forums.  To change the digest frequency, click on “Edit” just below where you clicked on “Subscriptions”.  Under Forum Digest Preferences, you can change the Digest Frequency from Daily to Weekly or Monthly.  When you are done, you should scroll to the bottom and click on the green rectangle that says “Update Profile”.

    Re-subscribe to individual forum post emails
    Re-subscribe to individual forum post emails
  5. If you want to re-subscribe to a forum that you deleted, start by going to the Forums Menu (On the black bar where you see About Us, Our Activities, etc.). Select Forums and then select the forum that you want to re-subscribe to from the drop-down that appears.   This will bring up the Forum page for that forum.  Just below the Green Rectangle that says “Mark All Topics” you will see a link that says “Subscribe”.  You can click on the word Subscribe to re-subscribe to the forum.  You will see the word “Subscribe” change to “Unsubscribe”.

Help and Suggestions Forum

If you are a new member and have questions about how to use the website, we recommend looking at the articles in the Help and Suggestions Forum to get answers to your questions.

73,

Anita, AB1QB

 

Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter

Online Technician Class

We held our first Online Technician License Class and Exam Session on September 26th and 27th.  The Nashua Area Radio Society is holding all of our license classes online using Zoom conferencing this fall due to the pandemic.  We are also able to give the Technician Exam to our students at the end of our class.  This has also allowed us to provide our license classes and exams to students across the US.

The online technician class was a success!  All three students earned their Technician License.   We kept this class small as it was our first try at a remote video license exam.

Congratulations to new Hams and License Class Grads:

  • Heather Hunter
  • Barbara Smith
  • Chris Holjes

All three students are now either club members or internet subscribers.

Gordon West Checks In to Technician Class
Gordon West Checks In to Technician Class

We had a surprise visitor on Saturday afternoon of the class as Gordon West, WB6NOA, showed up on Zoom to provide some encouraging words to the prospective new Hams and instructors.

Thanks to our great team of instructors and volunteer examiners who helped to make the class and exam a success:

Our next class will be the General License class, scheduled for October 25th and 26th.  For more information including the link to register for a License Class see https://www.n1fd.org/amateur-radio-license-class/

Anita, AB1QB

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