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

Congratulations New Techs!

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We held a technician license class for students, teachers, and parents from our HAB-3 schools and other youth outreach programs on July 16th through 19th at Hudson Memorial School.  The new Hams from the class have just received their call signs and are ready to get on the air!  Congratulations to the new Techs!

New Ham with her CSCE - Amateur Radio Youth Outreach
New Ham with her CSCE
  • Mackenzie Pooler, KC1KBU
  • Victoria Trost, KB1KBV
  • Karen Crivac, KC1KBW
  • Bridget Lalmond, KC1KBX
  • Christopher Levasseur, KC1KBY
  • Adam Goldstein, KC1KBZ
  • Daiel Bartus, KC1KCA
  • Maximillian Piech, KM6UVJ
  • Tatiana Piech, KM6UVK

Here are some of the upcoming activities that the new Techs can get involved in:

  • Join our Weekly Repeater Net – Sundays at 7:30pm – see our Amateur Radio Nets page for more info
  • Get on Echolink
  • August Tech Night on FT8, a very popular digital mode on 6 meters – August 14th, 7:00pm at the First Church Nashua
  • Family Picnic – August 18th at Greeley Park in Nashua
  • ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY – August 19th at AB1OC/AB1QB’s QTH – we will be control operators so Techs can participate
  • Fox Hunts – Stay tuned to our forums for announcements when the Foxes are out
  • Open House – Get your HT programmed, make your first contact, train for your first contest (ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY) – August 12th at AB1OC/AB1QB’s QTH
  • Customize your QRZ page 
  • Sign up for our General License Class in November and start studying!

If you haven’t yet joined the Nashua Area Radio Society, you can do so at https://www.n1fd.org/join-us/

Tech Students Tuning an Antenna - Amateur Radio Youth Outreach
Tech Students Tuning an Antenna

Thanks to the following members who helped out with the license class as instructors, giving demos, updating tech class materials, donating equipment, and as VEs:

Digital, Featured, Field Day, General, Newsletter

Significant Changes in Store for FT8 and MSK144 with WSJT-X 2.0

WSJT-X co-developer Joe Taylor, K1JT, has announced that major changes are coming to the FT8 and MSK144 digital protocols when WSJT-X 2.0 arrives in a few months. Taylor said version 2.0 should be ready for prime time by January.

“Much of the necessary programming is finished,” Taylor said in a post to the Packrats reflector. “Many of the new features have been tested on the air, and we find them to work well.”

Source: Significant Changes in Store for FT8 and MSK144 with WSJT-X Version 2.0

Some of the more interesting additions planned include:

  • Support for Field Day Exchanges
  • Support for the ARRL RTTY Roundup
  • Support for user-defined telemetry messages

Support for Telemetry messages (could be useful for a future long-range HF HAB radio system). See Joe’s whitepaper here for more details.

Looks like we’ll see a beta in October…

Fred, AB1OC

Activities, Featured, General, Newsletter, On The Air

Nashua Area Radio Society August Member Activities

We have two great member activities coming up on August 25th and August 19th.

Family Picnic

We will hold our annual family picnic on Saturday, August 15th at Greeley Park in Nashua. All club members and their family members are invited.  This is the same day as the Greeley Park Art Show.

The picnic will be a potluck lunch.   To sign up to bring a dish, see the forum post https://www.n1fd.org/forums/topic/family-picnic-sign-up/

Fox on the Loose
Fox on the Loose

We will start to gather around 10:00 am and lunch will be served at noon. Rumor has it that some foxes may be on the loose around Greeley Park during the picnic!   Directions can be found on the club event calendar.

ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY

We will be hosting a multi-op entry for the ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY on Sunday, August 19th.  The contest starts at 18:00z (2:00 pm local time) and ends at 00:00z on Monday (8:00 pm local time Sunday).  To be eligible for the rookie roundup, you must have received your first license in 2016, 2017 or 2018 OR have never made a RTTY mode QSO.

Certificate from 2017 Rookie Roundup RTTY
Certificate from 2017 Rookie Roundup RTTY

We will operate with the N1FD callsign from AB1QB/AB1OC’s QTH.  

We will hold an elmering session before the contest starting at 1:00 pm on Sunday, August 12th at AB1QB/AB1OC’s QTH.  Please plan to attend the elmering session if you want to operate in the contest and have never operated from our station or never operated RTTY.  We will also help the newly licensed Hams to program their HTs at this time.

You can sign up by sending an email to Anita at [email protected].   Please let me know what times you are available and whether you plan to attend the elmering session on August 12th.

Operating slots are first come, first serve so be sure to sign up soon!

We hope to see you at one or both of the member activities in August!

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