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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.

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CW Class Starting February 17th

Morse Code
Morse Code

Do you understand the morse code above?    Are you planning to build our February Tech Night Project and want to learn to use it?   Do you want to make more DX contacts?  Even though Morse Code proficiency is no longer required for your Ham Radio license, there is still more CW on the air than Phone and Digital modes combined. You don’t want to miss out on these contacts!

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CW Keys

CW Class Starting February 17th

Thanks to our Morse Code Instructors, Mike, K1WVO, and Dennis, K1LGQ, we will be holding another CW Class.  The classes will start on February 17th from 9:00 am to 11:00 am and will run for at least 6 weeks.  It will be held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Nashua.    You will be able to practice copying CW as well as sending CW during the class.  Toward the end of the class, if you practice regularly, you will get on the air via a CW slow net or scheduled QSOs among the students.

Our CW Class Instructors
Our CW Class Instructors

The class will be geared to the needs of those attending, whether you are just learning or if you attended a previous class and hope to build up your speed.

Hope to see you at the class.  Plan to bring a notebook and pen or pencil to copy CW.

Activities, Featured, General, Newsletter

New Activity: Monthly Breakfasts

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We have started a new activity, monthly breakfasts.  The breakfasts are held on the 3rd Saturday of each month, and we choose a different restaurant each month so that over time there is one close to each member’s QTH.

Temple Street Diner

Dave, K1DLM, at the Temple Street Diner Monthly Breakfast
Dave, K1DLM, at the Temple Street Diner

Our most recent breakfast was held at the Temple Street Diner in Nashua.  Members John, W1SMN, Patrick, KC1HDN, Mike, K1WVO, Ari, WB1ABC,  Dave, K1DLM, Fred, AB1OC,  Anita, AB1QB along with spouses and roommates.  We had some great conversation about Station upgrades, winter in New England, classic radios and computers, NEAR-fest and many other topics and the food was great!

Temple Street Diner Monthly Breakfasts
Temple Street Diner (W1SMN, KC1HDN and friends)
Mike, K1WVO at the Temple Street Diner monthly Breakfast
Mike, K1WVO at the Temple Street Diner

Parker’s Maple Barn

Breakfast at Parker’s Maple Barn in Mason, NH

We held the December Breakfast at Parker’s Maple Barn in Mason, NH.  We all had great pancakes and enjoyed some holiday shopping in their gift shop.

Joey’s Diner

Breakfast at Joey's Diner
Breakfast at Joey’s Diner (WB1ABC and his XYL, K1WVO, AB1NS, and AB1OC)
Breakfast at Joey's Diner
Breakfast at Joey’s Diner (AB1BY, AG1A, AB1QB, and KC1ENX)

We held the first breakfast on November 18th at Joey’s Diner in Amherst, NH.

Do you have a favorite breakfast spot?  Email me at [email protected] and we’ll plan a future breakfast there.   Hope to see you at our next Breakfast on February 17th.  Stay tuned to the forums for the location!

Anita, AB1QB

Activities, Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter

2018 Tech Night Survey Results

The results are in for the Tech Night program survey. We had 18 respondents and several volunteers to help with presentations.

In order to produce a meaningful ranking, a weight was given to votes for High, Medium, and Low. High was assigned a value of 10. Medium was assigned a value of 3. Low was assigned a value of zero. The score for each idea was then tallied, and the table sorted by score. Anything with a score below 95 was considered uninteresting at this time. Note that future surveys may have these very same ideas, and new members (or even old members) may rate the ideas higher later. Just because an idea didn’t get scheduled this year doesn’t mean it is off the table for next year.

I’m happy to say that five of the ideas that ranked highest have already been scheduled. We are also doing an Antenna Modeling program two nights, and a two-night kit build event in January and February to round out the package. As for the other popular ideas, we’ll be seeking out presenters for these in the coming weeks and months.

Here is a list of the ideas that made the cut:

Here are the remaining issues ranked, and a few more that were suggested during the survey.

Our hope is to bring interesting speakers and ideas to Tech Night. If you have ideas for program topics, or if you’d like to present at a Tech Night, please contact me.

Scott, NE1RD

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