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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

SOTA/POTA Hikes Start September 10th 2022

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GENERAL

Great news for fans of our SOTA / POTA hikes. If you made it to our August membership meeting then you already got the lowdown but for anyone that might have missed it then  I’ve got the schedule here for you and it begins in just a few short weeks.   Covid is mostly in our rear mirror so we can finally meet in groups and start having some fun.

Abby AB1BY portable operating from the summit

On September 10th we will be headed to Mount Kearsarge in Warner N.H. We plan on taking the auto road from Rollins State Park to 1066 Kearsarge Mountain Road. The 3 1/2 mile auto road terminates at a parking lot and picnic areas. Let’s plan to meet up in this parking lot at 10:00 am You can choose to operate here or hike a .5  mile to the summit. If you’re a purist you can start on the other side of the mountain at  Winslow State Park and hike the whole mountain with only modest effort and meet us. It is necessary to buy a parking pass and it is best to do this several days or a week ahead of time to ensure they don’t sell out. If they do you will be stuck at the bottom waiting for someone to come down as they only let a certain number of vehicles up at one time. Here is a link to the State of NH State Parks page where you can get the parking pass.

As far as operating from Kearsarge you can operate anything from an HT to the newest and best that is commercially offered or your own home-brewed rig. Seeing the range of what others brought is part of the fun of these activations. I’m bringing my MFJ qrp rig  I’ve run this rig before but haven’t had any luck yet so I’m hoping to have better luck this year.

Here is the rest of the SOTA / POTA scheduled for 2022

  • October 8 th   Pack Monadnock

Hope to see a lot of you on Kearsarge in a couple of weeks!

Jim Lajoie K1BRM

Activities, Featured, Field Day, General

Field Day Test – Radio Setup for 2022

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Lee KC1GKJ, Joe AC1LN, and Fred AB1OC got together today to configure our radios and loggers for 2022 Field Day and do a Field Day Test. We focused on the 80m/15m/10m station as it is the most complicated of our four planned stations at Field Day.

Field Day Test
Field Day Station Setup – 80m/15m/10m

We also configured a second computer running N1MM+ for use with the 20m station. We used both PCs to check out log sharing,

Field Day Test
Joe AC1LN and Lee KC1GKJ

which will be used at Field Day. Thanks to Joe and Lee for the great work to prepare NARS for Field Day 2022 and complete our Field Day Test.

Fred, AB1OC

 

Activities, Antennas, Digital, Education and Training, Featured, On The Air, Station Equipment

Register Now for Ham Bootcamp!

Are you a newly licensed Technician, or a General or Extra and have never been on the air or built a station?  Are you a prospective ham but would like to learn more about Amateur Radio activities?  Ham Bootcamp is the program for you.  We will be holding another online Ham Bootcamp on Saturday, May 14th, 2022.

Registration is open for the Nashua Area Radio Society’s Spring Ham Bootcamp.  Ham Bootcamp will be held online using Zoom web conferencing.   This will also let us reach out to new Hams across the country.

Jamey, AC1DC, elmers Randall, KC1KSY as he makes an HF Contact
Jamey, AC1DC, elmers Randall, N1KRB  as he makes an HF Contact

Our spring Ham Bootcamp will be held on Saturday, May 14th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time.  The morning session will focus on Technician level activities and the afternoon session will focus on HF activities for General and above licensees.   New this year will be a breakout session where attendees will have a choice between 3 different sessions.

Here is the agenda:

Abby on Fox Hunting
Abby Speaks About Fox Hunting in Fall 2020 Ham Bootcamp

Repeaters and VHF/UHF Session Activities

  • Putting together a Station for Repeaters – How to pick an HT or  Mobile Radio and an Antenna
  • Making Contacts and Joining a Repeater Net
  • Radio Programming Tutorial
  • Getting Started with Amateur Radio Satellites
  • Getting started with Fox Hunting
Jamey Explains HF Station Building
Jamey Explains HF Station Building

HF Session Activities

  • Putting together an HF Station for SSB, CW, and Digital
  • Picking and putting up an HF Antenna, Feedlines, and Grounds
  • Operating on the HF bands using SSB Voice
  • Getting started with WSJT-X and FT8 Digital

Breakout Session

The final session of the day will be a breakout session where attendees will choose to attend one of the following 3 sessions:

  • Learning CW
  • Finding DX, Logging Contacts, and QSL’ing – Getting them logged/confirmed
  • Portable Operating

Spring 2022 Ham Bootcamp will be Online on May 14th

Registration is now open for the May 14th session.  You can get more information about Ham Bootcamp at https://www.n1fd.org/ham-bootcamp/.

Each attendee should register separately using this link.   After registering, you will receive a link that will allow you to register for the Zoom meeting.  Following the Zoom meeting registration, you will receive a personal Zoom link via email.

Any questions about Bootcamp?  Contact me at [email protected]

 

Anita, AB1QB

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