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ARRL Technician Enhancement Proposal – How to Comment to the FCC

The FCC has invited public comments on ARRL’s 2018 Petition for Rule Making, now designated as RM-11828, which asks the FCC to expand HF privileges for Technician licensees to include limited phone privileges on 75, 40, and 15 meters, plus RTTY and digital mode privileges on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters. Interested parties have 30 days to comment.

Source: ARRL Article FCC Invites Comments On ARRL Technician Enhancement Proposal dated March 15, 2019.

We encourage our members to comment in support of RM-11828. Expanding Technician Class License privileges to include digital and SSB phone options on more of the HF bands is just what we need to make the first level Amateur Radio License more fun, a better learning experience, and a more effective bridge to upgrading to General Class privileges. We believe this will encourage New Hams to get active on the air and after a taste of HF, will encourage them to upgrade to General.

The referenced ARRL article provides more information on the proposal along with instructions on how to comment to the FCC.

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Hamvention® Club of the Year Award

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The Nashua Area Radio Society has been recognized as the 2019 Hamvention® Club of the Year.  Below is the video of the announcement from the DX Engineering facebook page.  The Club of the Year announcement starts at 10:00 into the video and don’t forget to click on the speaker icon to hear the sound.

The theme of this year’s Hamvention® is “Mentoring the Next Generation” and we won the award for our mentoring and youth outreach activities including:

Here are some photos from some recent mentoring activities:

Teaching Amateur Radio Licence Classes
Rookies and Elmers who joined the weekly repeater net.
Rookies and Elmers who joined the weekly repeater net.
Students and the NARS Operator Team
Students and the NARS Operator Team
HAB-3 Students Testing the HAB's Radios
HAB-3 Students Testing the HAB’s Radios

Thanks to all of our members who have put their time into helping the club to carry out these activities and for helping us to become Club of the Year.  Thanks especially to Scott Andersen, NE1RD for getting us through the application process.  Here is the writeup that we sent to the Hamvention® Awards team.

NARS Club of the Year 2019

Here is the award announcement that has been published on the Hamvention®  Website: https://hamvention.org/event-details/awards/

A special Thank You to the Dayton Hamvention® team for this recognition of our efforts.

Anita, AB1QB

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March Meeting – 200 Member Celebration!

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On Tuesday, March 5th, we held our March Meeting.  In addition to a great program, we celebrated reaching 200 members and took a group picture!

200 Member Celebration Cake
200 Member Celebration Cake

11 of the students in our Technician License Class became members and that brought our total members to 205!  To celebrate going over 200 members, we had a cake during the refreshments portion of the meeting.

Nashua Area Radio Society Group Photo
Nashua Area Radio Society Group Photo

We have been invited by the ARRL to be a featured club in their booth, the ARRL Expo at the Dayton Hamvention this year.  Our media team gathered all the club members at the meeting together for a group photo, which will be used to promote this event.

Speaker Joe Dzekevich, K1YOW
Speaker Joe Dzekevich, K1YOW

Our speaker was Joe Dzekevich, K1YOW, who gave a very interesting talk about 6 Meter Es Propagation.   You can view a copy of his slides at the link below.

Es and Weather HamSCI Boxboro 2018

Anita, AB1QB

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