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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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Our Ham Radio Video and Photo Collections

We have been building quite a collection of Ham Radio video and photos over the past few years. We have pictures and video from Field Days, Contests and Activations, Club Meetings, Tech Nights, Youth Events, Picnics, Classes, and other Member Activities.

We’ve decided to collect all of this great content in one place here on our website so that our members can enjoy it. You can view it via the following links:

Take a trip down our Club’s Memory Lane or catch up on some topics from one of our many Tech Night sessions. There is lots of material here to use for fun and learning.

Most (but not all) of this content is in members-only sections of the pages so be sure to log in to our website to view all of the media that we have collected.

Thanks to all of our members for making so many great memories! We are looking forward to much more to come…

Fred, AB1OC

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Congratulations to the New Generals!

We held our Spring 2017 General License Class on March 18th and 19th with 100% success!  Congratulations to the 7 new Generals:

Thanks to all of the instructors and VEs who helped to make this happen:

Gordon West Extra Class Book - Used in our License Class
Gordon West Extra Class Book – Used in our License Class

Our last license class this Spring will be the Extra Class scheduled for April 28-30 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Nashua.  We still have openings in the class – you can sign up using the online form on our website.  We hold the exam session at the end of the class so you could walk out with your Extra license and get privileges to all of the Amateur Bands!

Anita, AB1QB

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High Altitude Balloon Project Update #1

I just wanted to take a moment and update everyone on our progress on our High Altitude Balloon project.

Our fundraising efforts are complete and were very successful thanks to the generosity of our members and many friends.

We have secured support from two area high schools for our project Merrimack HS and Bishop-Guertin HS. Currently, we have a total of 10 – 12 young people who have joined our project.

High Altitude Balloon Classroom Topics
High Altitude Balloon Classroom Topics

With help from local teachers, we have developed a curriculum and classroom materials to help the teachers we are working with to deliver classroom sessions on the science behind high altitude balloons and the associated radio technologies. The classroom instruction began with a session at Merrimack High School this week.

We have purchased the balloon kit and supporting electronics and we are planning a session to test everything later this week.

Our planned launch date at this time is on May 13th. We are also planning an open house at AB1OC/AB1QB’s QTH the week before the launch to allow the students to test their balloon and to learn more about Amateur Radio.

We’ll post more here as the project progresses.

Again, thank you all very much for supporting our work.

Fred, AB1OC on behalf of the HAB Team

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