Our Ham Nation interview also included information about the Nashua Area Radio Society’s online training materials. You can learn more about our online training materials and how to get access to them via this link.
Ham Nation hosts Bob Heil, Gordon West, and George Thomas all had nice things to say about the work that the Nashua Area Radio Society is doing to bring new folks into the Amateur Radio Service and to help our members build their skills and have fun.
We really enjoyed being part of Ham Nation and we look forward to doing it again soon!
Winter Field Day 2020 is coming! The dates are January 24th – 26th, 2020. We had a lot of fun at Winter Field Day 2019 and we’re looking forward to the event again this year. The Nashua Area Radio Society will again be holding our operation at Keyes Memorial Park in Milford, NH. We are planning several new things this year. Here’s some more about our plans.
Our Planning Team
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A team has been working on our plans for Winter Field Day (WFD) 2020 for over a month now. The planning leads include:
With help from many other members, our Winter Field Day 2020 planning team is putting together a really cool operation. Some of the highlights include:
We will be operating on all of the HF bands from 160m through 6m.
Our antenna farm will include a 40 ft tower with a tri-bander and wire antennas for 80m and 40m
Our antenna farm will also include a second 40m wire antenna (a Delta Loop) that will enable us to have two transmitters on 40m at the same time.
We are planning an additional transceiver and we will be entering as a 5O (five Tx Outdoor) station this year
We are adding quite a few new bands on VHF and above. We’ll be on 6m, 2m, 1.25m (222 MHz), 70cm, 33cm (902 MHz), and 23cm (1.2 GHz). We will have yagi antennas for all of these bands.
John Slater is working on an improved shelter and heating system to keep us warm and dry
We will be equipping Rover stations for the VHF+ bands (2m, 1.25m, 70cm, 33cm, and 23cm). These stations will have Phone, CW, and Digital capabilities. We hope this will provide opportunities for enhanced VHF+ activity for all of the Winter Field Day stations in our area.
Our computer-controlled satellite ground station will be back
Upcoming Activities
New for Winter Field Day 2020 – 1.25m Yagi
We have several activities leading up to Winter Field Day 2020. All NARS members are invited to join us for these activities. Planned activities include:
Saturday, November 23rd at 10 am – Yagi building party at AB1OC/AB1QB. We’ve secured several new Yagi’s to use for the VHF+ bands this year. We’ll be assembling the one for the 1.25m (220 MHz) band and testing in our shop. We’ll also recondition the driven element of a large 70cm yagi as well. This is a chance to see how a VHF+ weak signal antenna goes together.
Friday November 29th at 9 am – VHF+ Mast Test at AB1OC/AB1QB. We are planning a second mast for our VHF+ antennas for Winter Field Day. During this session, we’ll be setting up the new mast with the antennas for 1.25m, 33cm, and 23cm to check it out and cut a new set of guy ropes.
Tuesday, December 10th at 7 pm – Winter Field Day 2020 Tech Night. We will be covering all aspects of antenna building, station setup, and operating for Winter Field Day 2020 at our December Tech Night.
We are also planning station tests for our HF and VHF+ stations in the near future.
Signups for setup and operating during Winter Field Day will be available at our December Membership Meeting.
We hope you’ll join us for our Winter Field Day activities and operation!
Our goal for this phase of our EME Station Project is to get our new tower up, install the Azimuth Rotator and Mast, and run the hardline and coax cables for our antennas from the shack to our new …
We got our new 26 ft EME tower up this past week. The new tower is a hybrid free-standing/guyed design and will support our planned 2M EME Antenna System.
Install the phase-tuned coax cables and hardline coax that will connect our antennas to the rest of our station
Connecting the coax cables and hardlines to an expanded station ground block at the entry to our shack
You can read all about this phase of our project via the link above. The next phase of our project will include running control cables and installing a control cable junction box on the tower, hooking up and testing the rotator, completing our grounding and bonding system, and preparing to install the antennas and tower electronics when they arrive from M2 Antenna Systems.
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