Category Archives: General

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Activities, General, On The Air

Open House for New Hams – Saturday March 17

March 11, 2018 Anita Kemmerer 1 Comment

Are you a new Ham and interested in what you can do with your license? Or have been licensed for a while but have not been on the air? We will be holding a New Ham Open House at Fred, AB1OC, and Anita, AB1QB’s QTH on Saturday, March 17th starting at 1:00 pm for new Hams.

HF Operation

We’ll have a tour of our antenna farm and we’ll have our HF Station setup for you to make some contacts.

Satellite Operation

We will also have our Satellite Station setup for you to make contacts.

Fox Hunt and Demos

We will also have a fox hunt (Weather Permitting) and demos of the High Altitude Balloon and some Raspberry Pi projects.

HT Programming

We will also help you to program your HTs using RTSystems or Chirp software. Bring your HT and a programming cable if you are interested in this.

Hope to see you on March 17th. See the Calendar for details. It starts at 1pm but will go all afternoon so you can arrive any time in the afternoon.

Antennas, Featured, General, Space, Station Equipment

Portable Satellite Station 3.0 Initial Contacts

March 9, 2018 Fred Kemmerer

With the construction of our portable satellite station 3.0 complete, we’ve been looking forward to an opportunity to test the new setup. We chose the Nashua Area Radio Society’s recent…

Portable Satellite Station 3.0 Antenna System

Source: A Portable Satellite Station Part 6 – 3.0 Station Initial Contacts | Our HAM Station

Our next generation portable satellite station is complete and we tested it during our recent Tech License Class. We discovered a minor issue which was easily sorted out. The new antenna system includes switchable circular polarity and has performed really performs well during the first 50 or so contacts made using the 3.0 station. You can read more about the new station and the initial tests via the link above.

Fred, AB1OC

Antennas, Education and Training, Featured, General

Get ready for Antenna Modeling

March 6, 2018 Nashua Area Radio Society

The March Tech Night (March 13, 2018) will have an introduction to antenna modeling by me, Scott, NE1RD. I’ll begin by going through some antenna theory and then proceed on to the NEC-2 software and its popular front ends EZNEC and CocoaNEC. (Both the evaluation/demo version of EZNEC, and the Macintosh-based CocoaNEC are free.) LINUX users should consider getting Andy (KB1OIQ) Stewart’s Andy’s Ham Radio Linux suite. The main concepts you’ll learn will apply equally well to any of these programs.

Please download the antenna modeling software for your platform, and download the slides for this presentation from the Tech Night web page. The slides have a lot of detail on them, and it will be much easier to see the subtleties on your own screen.

So, bring your laptop with software and slides, and we’ll have you modeling antennas by the end of the evening. See you there!

Scott, NE1RD

HF Operation

Satellite Operation

Fox Hunt and Demos

HT Programming

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