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Nashua Area Radio Society activities. Included is Field Day, our Annual Picnic, Tech Nights, On The Air Activations and much more.

Activities, Featured, General, On The Air

Club competition for the New Hampshire QSO Party (NHQP)

Updates to the article in red.

The New Hampshire QSO Party (www.w1wqm.org/nhqso) is held in the third full weekend of September. This year the contest is held on Saturday, September 15th from noon to midnight, and September 16th from noon to 6 PM. (That’s 1600 UTC Sat to 0400 UTC Sun, and 1600 UTC Sun to 2200 UTC). To encourage participation in the event, the Nashua Area Radio Society will have a “contest in a contest” competition. To enter, just do the following:

  1. Get on the air and operate in the contest following all NHQP rules.
  2. At the conclusion of the contest post your score to the 3830 website (details below).
  3. Email me notifying that you’ve entered, and tell me which category you operated within.
  4. Don’t forget to submit your log to the contest sponsor and specify the “Nashua Area Radio Society” as your affiliated club.

Categories

Operating categories make it possible to compare “apples to apples”. It isn’t fair for a station with three towers to compete with a little pistol station with just a dipole! So, the following categories for the NARS competition will be used (single operators only except for Superstation):

  • QRP. Any antenna configuration is OK. Power output is limited to 5 watts CW/digital, and 10 watts SSB.
  • Small Station. This can be any single radio with output power no more than 100 watts using vertical antennas or dipoles only. No receive-only systems.
  • TB-Wires. Same as Small Station except that one antenna with gain can be available. Wires/dipoles/verticals must be used for everything else. No receive-only systems.
  • Superstation. Multiple operators OK. Multiple gain antennas available. Receive-only antenna systems or listening arrays available. Power greater than 100 watts.
  • New Hampshire stations and stations outside NH will be ranked separately.

Note that “assistance” (spotting systems, repeaters, etc.) is allowed in the contest, and in this competition.

Submitting your entry

Go to the 3830 Scores website (3830scores.com) and navigate to the New Hampshire QSO Party entry. Enter all of the information demanded by the website and submit your score. (If you are having trouble computing your score, contact me directly.)

Once your entry is live on the 3830 site, email me ([email protected]) and tell me the call sign you used, and which entry category for the club competition you’ve selected (QRP, Small Station, TB-Wires, or Superstation). That’s it! I’ll use the submitted scores to determine the winner in each category.

RESULTS

The results of the competition will be announced at the October general meeting of NARS.

Activities, Featured, General, Newsletter, On The Air

ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY

The ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY was held on Sunday, August 19th.  The N1FD rookie multi-op team, operating from AB1OC’s QTH took 1st place overall in the contest!

Congratulations to the Rookies who operated in the contest:

Thanks to Jamey, AC1DC, and Fred, AB1OC for being elmers to the rookies!

Here are the final scores:

2018 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores
2018 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores

For the complete results, please visit http://www.b4h.net/arrlrr/rr_scores201808.php

Activities, Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter, Youth Activities

Fall Youth Events at Boxboro and NEAR-Fest

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Quite a few Nashua Area Radio Society members have been working on a display to get young people and potential new Hams interested in Amateur Radio.

NETT Youth Events: High Altitude Balloon Display
High Altitude Balloon Display

Our display was first used at NEAR-Fest this spring. It includes over ten high-quality exhibits and hands-on activities related to Amateur Radio and Nashua Area Radio Society licensing, activities, and youth projects. Some of the activities that are part of the display include:

We’ve created a new page here on n1fd.org that explains more about our Amateur Radio Displays for Young People. Check it out!

Our Youth Event Display
Our Youth Outreach Event Display

We also provided our display as part of a youth summer program a the Westford Public Library this summer.

Morse Trainer Kit
Morse Trainer Kit

Thanks to a cooperative project with Steve Elliot, K1EL, we are planning to add a kit building activity to our display. The kit is a new one that Steve created for learning Morse Code. The Morse Trainer kit should take less than an hour to build and will be available to purchase and build at Boxboro. We will be providing soldering equipment and mentors to help our builders at the show.

Youth Events - Display Overview for Boxboro Convention Leaders
Youth Display Overview for Boxboro Convention Leaders

We have been working with the New England Amateur Radio Convention at Boxboro, MA to include our display in their vendor hall.

Planned Youth Events - Display Layout at Boxboro 2018
Planned Display Layout at Boxboro 2018

The Boxboro leadership is very excited about our display and has agreed to give us approximately 90 ft of table space in the main vendor hall and space outside for our Portable Satellite Station.

Boxboro 2018 Youth Event Flyer (click to see the flyer)
Boxboro 2018 Youth Event Flyer (click to see the flyer)

Along with the Boxboro team, we are hard at work publicising our event. We’ve created an information Flyer and a short picture presentation that teachers and our members can use to let folks know about our planned event. Please take a minute to download these materials and share them with as many interested folks as you can:

It is going to take quite a few member volunteers to support our display at Boxboro 2018. If you’d be willing to help, please contact us at [email protected]. Everyone who helps will receive free admission to the Boxboro 2018 convention.

Fred, AB1OC

 

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