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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
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 RoundupRTTY 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.
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!
We have a live stream of 13 Colonies Special Event K2K New Hampshire operations from our QTH (AB1OC/AB1QB) here going on facebook. You can view the live stream video here or click to view us live below –
We had a great Field Day this year at the Hudson Memorial School! Thanks to our Field Day Chairmen, Dave Merchant, K1DLM, Hamilton Stewart, K1HMS and Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC for putting together a great Field Day for us.
Our publicity chairperson, John W1SMN went above and beyond this year as we had coverage in print, video as well as on WMUR, the local Manchester ABC station!
Here are a few of the sights from Field Day 2018. Join our next Meeting on Tuesday, July 3rd at 7:00 pm at the First Church Nashua for the full readout!
Field Day Planning Meeting
Thanks also to all of the committee chairpersons and all others who worked so hard to make this year’s Field Day a great experience!
Craig, N1SFT, our Transportation Chairman
Step 1 is to get all of our Field Day equipment onsite from multiple locations. Our transportation chairperson, Craig, N1SFT did a great job of planning and carrying this out.
Birds Eye View of Antenna Setup
Many members came out on Thursday evening and Friday to set up 3 towers, with Yagis, the V-Beam, the Satellite Antenna and 13 stations! Here is a shot that was taken by Desmond, WK1V from his drone.
40-meter V-Beam
The 40-meter V-Beam worked great and we got more QSOs on 40m SSB than any other band/mode in the event!
Satellite Antenna
The Satellite antenna was impressive to watch as it rotates around to follow the Satellite passes.
Flex Radio Setup near 60 ft Tower
4 Flex Radios were the heart of our Digital and GOTA stations. They were located near the 60-foot digital tower and accessed remotely via laptops and a Maestro in the Digital/GOTA tents. Thanks to Bill Barber, NE1B and John Keslo, W1MBG for contributing their Flex Radios to the effort. And most thanks to Dave, K1DLM for setting these up and keeping them and the network running for the duration of the event!
ARISS Training
Adam Goldstein, a teacher from Hudson Memorial School and a sponsor of the HAB-3 effort at HMS gave us training on ARISS and how HMS was able to get a contact with the ISS, which will be this coming November.
N1FD On The Air – 10A NH
Guests to Field Day were greeted by our new Banner!
Public Information Tent
Guests could sign in and learn more about Field Day and the Nashua Area Radio Society at our Public Infomation Tent. We also had an N1MM scoreboard and a weather radar display so we could be prepared for any incoming storms.
Team Finchum on the Air
Jamey, AC1DC and Abby, AB1BY spent many hours on 20m and 40m SSB and made many QSOs!
Here is Keith’s Dad, Mark, KC1IML with coach Ira, KC1EMJ making contacts on the GOTA station. Dave Merchant, K1DLM is working on the 15m Digital station. Thanks to Dave for all the work he did in setting up and keeping the network and digital stations running!
Hamilton at the 10/15/80 meter CW Station
Hamilton, K1HMS, one of our 3 Field Day Chairpersons, worked CW QSOs on our 10/15/80 meter station.
Curtis, Charlie, and Trish working the Satellites
Curtis, N1CMD, Charlie, W1CBD, and Trish had fun working QSOs with other Field Day stations through Low Earth Orbit Satellites.
Field Day Cake
We had delicious food thanks to Valerie Merchant, who provide meals and drinks during setup as well as Field Day operations.
We are still working on the final scoring and we’ll have a final readout at the July 3rd membership meeting.
Please share any pictures or video that you have from Field Day to Fred, AB1OC.
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