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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, Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter

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

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

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

Activities, Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter, On The Air

Join us for the ARRL Rookie Roundup – Sunday April 16

rook·ie
ˈro͝okē

noun

  • A Ham Radio operator that has received his or her first license in 2015, 2016 or 2017
  • A Ham Radio operator that has never operated before in the mode of the current ARRL Rookie Roundup.

Are you a rookie?  Join us for the ARRL Rookie Roundup SSB on Sunday, April 16 from 18:00z to 23:59z  (that is 2 pm – 8 pm local time).  The Rookie Roundup is a contest sponsored by the ARRL specifically for new hams.

N1FD Certificate from the 2016 ARRL Rookie Roundup SSB
N1FD Certificate from the 2016 ARRL Rookie Roundup SSB

We will be hosting a multi-op entry using the club callsign, N1FD from the AB1OC/AB1QB QTH.  Help us defend our title from last year as #1 Multi-Op Area 1.  This is an opportunity to get on the HF bands if you just got your license and don’t have a station setup yet, or a chance to get some practice if you want to try running some pile-ups before Field Day.

If you have never operated from our station before, we will hold an elmering session on Saturday, April 15 from 2 pm – 4 pm, also at our QTH.

Details are on our club calendar.

If you are interested, contact Anita, AB1QB to sign up at [email protected].

Anita, AB1QB

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