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July 2019 Tech Night – Putting Up A Tower

We recently did a how-to presentation on Putting Up A Tower at a Nashua Area Radio Society Tech Night. The video from this presentation can be viewed above.

Putting Up A Tower Video - Topics Covered — Putting Up A Tower Video – Topics Covered

We covered a variety of information related to planning, building and integrating Guyed and House-Bracketed towers. You can view the accompanying presentation materials here.

The Nashua Area Radio Society produces similar how-to training materials on almost a monthly basis and we make these materials available to our Members an Internet Subscribers (folks that live too far from our location to be regular members) for a small cost which supports our new Ham development programs and covers the production and storage costs associated with the video material. Here’s a list of the training topics that we’ve produced to date:

2019 Tech Nights

Almost Everything You Need to Know About Antenna Fundamentals Part 1 by Spencer Webb, W2SW and Steve Golson, W1SEG
Raspberry Pi for Portable Digital Communications by Jamey Finchum, AC1DC
HFTA, Feedline Design and Busting Pileups by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
QSL’ing and Awards by Anita Kemmerer, AB1QB
Fox Hunting: Radio Direction Finding for Beginners including a Tape Measure Yagi Build by Jamey Finchum, AC1DC
Surface Mount Technology by Hamilton Stewart, K1HMS
RF Design with Smith Charts, Building a First HF Station, and Begining with CW – Hamilton Stewart, K1HMS; Anthony Rizzolo, KC1DXL; and Jerry Doty, K1OKD
All About Field Day 2019 by our Field Day Planning Team
Putting up a Tower by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC

2018 Tech Nights

Operating Your Station Remotely by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
Transceiver Frequency Measurement and Calibration by George Allison, K1IG.
DMR Radios and Programming by Bill Barber, NE1B
WSJT-X: FT8, WSPR, MSK144 and More by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Computers by Anita Kemmerer, AB1QB, Jamey Finchum, AC1DC, Brian McCaffrey, W1BP, Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC, and Craig Bailey, N1SFT
All About Field Day 2018 by our Field Day Planning Team
Portable Operating Gear – demonstrations by Nashua Area Radio Society Members
K1EL Kits by Steve Elliott, K1EL
Antenna Modeling I by Scott Andersen, NE1RD.
Building and Operating a Mobile HF Station by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC

2017 Tech Nights

High-Altitude Balloons: Amateur Radio at the Edge of Space and was presented by our HAB Team.
Getting On The Air 2.0 by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC, and B. Scott Andersen, NE1RD
All About n1fd.org – Getting the most from our Website by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
Digital Modes: RTTY, PSK, and WSJT-X by Mike Struzik AB1YK , Anita Kemmerer AB1QB, and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC
Bonding and Grounding by Jeff Millar, WA1HCO and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
All About Field Day 2017 by Dave Merchant, K1DLM, and our Field Day Planning Team.
Building and Operating a Satellite Ground Station by Burns Fisher, W2BFJ and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
DXing and QSLing by Anita Kemmerer, AB1QB; Bill Barber, NE1B; Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC; and Dick Powell, WK1J.
Weak Signal VHF and UHF Stations by Jeff Millar, WA1HCO and Bill Barber, NE1B.
Getting the Most from your HF Transceiver and More by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC and Dave Michaels, N1RF.

2016 Tech Nights

Popular Loggers – Ham Radio Deluxe and DXLab Suite by Dave Merchant, K1DLM and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
Low-Band Antennas by Dennis Marandos, K1LGQ; Hamilton Stewart, K1HMS; Brian McCaffrey, W1BP; and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
RF Simulation and Matching by Jeff Millar, WA1HCO
Directional Antennas by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC; Dave Michaels, N1RF; Brian Smigielski, AB1ZO; and Greg Fuller, W1TEN
All About Field Day 2016 by our Field Day Planning Team.
Surface Mount Soldering and Desoldering, a Hands-On Presentation by Jeff Millar, WA1HCO
Building Your First Station and Getting On The Air by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC, and Dave Michaels N1RF
Software Defined Radios by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC and Skip Youngberg, K1NKR
Advanced Repeaters (DMR, EchoLink, DMR, and D-STAR) by Anita Kemmerer; AB1QB, Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC; and Bill Barber, NE1B
Antenna Modeling with EZNEC by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC

You can gain on-going access to the full library of Amateur Radio Training and How-To materials by supporting our work to bring new people and young people into the Amateur Radio Service as a Nashua Area Radio Society Internet Subscriber. You can learn more about how to become an Internet Subscriber here.

Fred, AB1OC

We have held the first three sessions of New Ham Boot Camp the past few weeks to help our newly licensed members learn the skills they need to get on the air.

Session 1 was held at Fred, AB1OC’s and Anita, AB1QB’s QTH. The session focused on UHF/VHF. The following activities were part of this session:

HT Programming
Station Tour including Antenna Towers and Mobile Stations
Echolink Setup and Use
Satellite Operating Demo
Antenna Demo
Practice QSOs and Repeater Net

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

Session 2 was also held at AB1OC/AB1QB’s QTH. During this session, members were able to Get on the Air to make contacts via HF SSB, Satellites, and HF Digital.

In addition, we built a 70 cm ground plane antenna and members got kits to build their own antenna. and Jamey, AC1DC spoke about SOTAs and demonstrated a Buddipole antenna.

Session 3 was held at Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, NH. Peter, KI1M opened HRO during the evening of March 19th exclusive to NARS New Ham Boot Camp members. Fred and Peter advised members and answered questions on selecting HTs, Transceivers, Antennas, Headphones, Microphones, Coax and other Amateur Radio components.

We have two more sessions of New Ham Boot Camp to be held in April:

Session 4: – Saturday, April 6 – How to set up your first station, Getting on 6 meters, What do all the buttons and knobs on my HF Transceiver do? How do I use them to work DX
Session 5: Date TBD – Building and Tuning up HF Wire Antennas

Stay tuned to the General Information Forums – we will post there when Session 5 is scheduled.

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