Category Archives: Activities

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

2018 Tech Night Programs (First Half Of The Year)

Tech Night

Here are the plans for Tech Night for the first half of 2018. If you haven’t already done so, please fill out the 2018 Tech Night Survey to provide your input on your choices for future Tech Night activities.

Month Topic Presenters
January 9 Kit building skills Steve Elliott, K1EL
February 13 Kit build night
March 13 Antenna Modeling I B. Scott Andersen, NE1RD and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
April 10 Antenna Modeling II B. Scott Andersen, NE1RD and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
May 8 Antenna Analyzers Advanced Topics B. Scott Andersen, NE1RD
June 12 Field Day Skill Builder

2018 General Meeting Programs (first half of the year)

Programs

We have a very fine set of General Membership meetings planned for 2018.  Here is the list of the planned programs for these meetings for the first-half of the year.

Date Topic Presenter
January 2 Show and Tell You! Bring your most interesting stuff to amaze your friends.
February 6 Global Ionosphere Radio Observatory Dr. Ivan Galkin of UMass Lowell
March 6 Plane tracking with ADS-B Thomas R Kavanaugh
April 3 The current state of the D-Star evolution Terry Stader, KA8SCP
May 1 MIT Haystack Observatory talk Phil Erickson, W1PJE
June 15 Field Day Planning Meeting  Field Day Planning Team

We have a good start on plans for the second-half of the year as well. If you have not already done so, please complete our survey to tell us what you’d like to see for this year’s Tech Nights. (I’ll publish the plans for Tech Night separately.)

N1FD Wins 2017 ARRL Rookie Roundup CW Multi-Op Area 1 Category!

The results are in..  The N1FD Multi-Op team of Jamey, KC1ENX, Abby, AB1BY and Mike, AB1YK has won the multi-op Area 1 category in the ARRL Rookie Roundup CW.

2017 ARRL Rookie Roundup CW Results
2017 ARRL Rookie Roundup CW Results

Detailed Score

The team’s CW skills are improving and score was almost double the score from last year!

N1FD Score Details for ARRL Rookie Roundup CW
N1FD Score Details for ARRL Rookie Roundup CW

 

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