Category Archives: Featured

This category is for featured articles that we want to include in the sidebars and other areas on our website.

Support the Nashua Area Radio Society on Amazon Smile and GoFundMe

The Nashua Area Radio Society has created many projects designed to provide STEM learning experiences and training through Amateur Radio. Some of these projects include:

To carry out our mission, we have formed close relationships with several local schools. This helps us develop and deliver effective, high-quality programs that bring learning through Amateur Radio to young people.

Dan and his completed Bo-Bot Arduino Shield - ARRL Teacher Institute
Dan Pooler, AC1EN

Dan Pooler, a professional educator at the Hudson Memory School in Hudson, NH writes:

Over the course of the past year, I have found myself the benefactor of the most amazing partnership with the Nashua Area Radio Society.  … thanks to the knowledge and generosity of the club members who have dedicated their time to helping others come to know and understand the radio sciences.  I have found what makes this dedication even more valuable is the clubs growing outreach to the schools and students of Southern New Hampshire.

You can read more about our partnership with Dan and his school here.

We provide many of these services either free of charge or at a very modest cost. We count on the generosity of our members, friends, and the Amateur Radio community to raise funds to support our work.

We have begun a fundraising campaign to enable us to continue and expand our training projects listed above which provide STEM learning experiences for young people and support for emergency communications readiness. Please consider supporting our work via your GoFundMe donation.


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We are also now on Amazon Smile. Please consider supporting our projects by using Amazon Smile and designating us as your favorite charity there. Click on the badge below to get started supporting our work via Amazon Smile.

It’s easy to help the Nashua Area Radio Society as you shop on Amazon. Here’s a simple set of directions to help you get going.
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On behalf of the many young people and others that we help, thank you very much for your generosity. With your support, we will continue to work hard to provide learning opportunities for young people through Amateur Radio and to continue to make the Amateur Radio Service the best it can be to benefit everyone.

2018 Summer Tech Class - Amateur Radio Youth Outreach
2018 Summer Youth Technician License Class
Fred, AB1OC

Fall Youth Events at Boxboro and NEAR-Fest

Quite a few Nashua Area Radio Society members have been working on a display to get young people and potential new Hams interested in Amateur Radio.

NETT Youth Events: High Altitude Balloon Display
High Altitude Balloon Display

Our display was first used at NEAR-Fest this spring. It includes over ten high-quality exhibits and hands-on activities related to Amateur Radio and Nashua Area Radio Society licensing, activities, and youth projects. Some of the activities that are part of the display include:

We’ve created a new page here on n1fd.org that explains more about our Amateur Radio Displays for Young People. Check it out!

Our Youth Event Display
Our Youth Outreach Event Display

We also provided our display as part of a youth summer program a the Westford Public Library this summer.

Morse Trainer Kit
Morse Trainer Kit

Thanks to a cooperative project with Steve Elliot, K1EL, we are planning to add a kit building activity to our display. The kit is a new one that Steve created for learning Morse Code. The Morse Trainer kit should take less than an hour to build and will be available to purchase and build at Boxboro. We will be providing soldering equipment and mentors to help our builders at the show.

Youth Events - Display Overview for Boxboro Convention Leaders
Youth Display Overview for Boxboro Convention Leaders

We have been working with the New England Amateur Radio Convention at Boxboro, MA to include our display in their vendor hall.

Planned Youth Events - Display Layout at Boxboro 2018
Planned Display Layout at Boxboro 2018

The Boxboro leadership is very excited about our display and has agreed to give us approximately 90 ft of table space in the main vendor hall and space outside for our Portable Satellite Station.

Boxboro 2018 Youth Event Flyer (click to see the flyer)
Boxboro 2018 Youth Event Flyer (click to see the flyer)

Along with the Boxboro team, we are hard at work publicising our event. We’ve created an information Flyer and a short picture presentation that teachers and our members can use to let folks know about our planned event. Please take a minute to download these materials and share them with as many interested folks as you can:

It is going to take quite a few member volunteers to support our display at Boxboro 2018. If you’d be willing to help, please contact us at [email protected]. Everyone who helps will receive free admission to the Boxboro 2018 convention.

Fred, AB1OC

 

ARISS Packet Radio System Expected to be Back Late this Year

The currently silent packet radio system on the International Space Station could be back on the air by year’s end. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) hardware team members have located an original duplicate of the packet module that had been in use on the International Space Station (ISS) before failing more than a year ago, after 17 years of service. With a new battery installed, the unit was tested and found to be functioning…

Source: ARISS Packet Radio System Expected to be Back Late this Year

It will be great to have the ISS ARPS digipeater back on the air again!

Fred (AB1OC)

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