Regular Members, Internet Subscribers, and Club Licensees are welcome and encouraged to post content on the Nashua Area Radio Society’s website. We welcome your contribution to our training and learning mission through your posts.
We moderate most postings to ensure that they are consistent with our organization’s mission which is to:
- Encourage and help people to become licensed and active in the Amateur Radio Service
- Spark Interest among Young People in STEM Education and Careers through Ham Radio
- Provide training and mentoring to enable our Members, Internet Subscribers, and Club License partners to improve their technical and operating skills and to be prepared to assist in times of emergency
- Sponsor on-air operating activities so that our Members may practice and fully develop their operating skills and have fun with Ham Radio!
All Regular Members, Internet Subscribers , and Club License holders must agree to our website Privacy Policy/Terms of Use and our Posting Policy and Guidelines before posting on our website. Failure to comply with these policies and guidelines can result in the removal of your posted content from our website and/or (in egregious cases) the removal of your Membership, Internet Subscription, or Club License.
Content Guidelines
Posting content is a great way to share information and support our learning mission. We provide several means to do this including:
- Posting Articles on our Blog
- Posting Information, Questions, and Answering Questions in our Forums
- Posting Comments on Articles
Postings that are consistent with forwarding our Mission are welcomed. Our website is not to be used as a general-purpose bulletin board for the purposes of promoting activities outside of directly sponsored by the Nashua Area Radio Society or for posting any content that is not appropriate for viewing by visitors of all ages.
Appropriate Content Examples
- Posting Questions or Information to help yourself or others learn about Amateur Radio and related STEM topics
- Posting Articles about projects or Amateur Radio related skills development that you are involved in to help yourself and others to learn
- Posting information about Nashua Area Radio Society activities
- Sharing of Amateur Radio related links that provide useful information to all Amateurs and do not promote any Inappropriate Content including areas defined in the next section.
Inappropriate Content Examples
- Posting any content that you do not have rights of ownership to and/or explicit permission to post (ex. photographs of people that do not consent to your posting).
- Posting any content that is not appropriate for all ages
- Posting offensive or other inappropriate language or statements that would offend our members, subscribers, club licensees, or visitors
- Posting of material that contains personal attacks or derogatory remarks about any individual or group
- Promotion of clubs or organizations including but not limited to membership solicitations other than for the Nashua Area Radio Society or the American Radio Relay League
- Sale, promotion, or advertising equipment except that owned by a Nashua Area Radio Society Regular Member. Listings of member equipment for sale may only to be posted in the Swap Meet Forum.
- Posting of personal information that should not be shared with all Internet visitors.
Reblogging
It’s often helpful and fun to reblog or post an excerpt from another post on the Internet along with a review or added perspective here on https://www.n1fd.org. This is an OK thing to do as long as the re-blogged content is:
- Appropriate for our members, subscribers, club licensees, and visitors
- Is consistent with our mission
- And follows accepted guidelines for reblogging.
Its almost never appropriate to reblog another author’s content in full without first getting written permission from the original author to do so. Posting a short 1-2 sentence excerpt along with a clear acknowledgment of the original author and a permanent link to the original post along with your review or additional perspective on the content is usually a good way to go when reblogging.
The following link contains a good set of guidelines written by
https://www.contentmasteryguide.com/2013/01/the-etiquette-of-reblogging.html
Copyrighted Material
By posting content on our website, you represent that you have the necessary rights to do so and that you have followed the above-listed guidelines for reblogged/reposted content. If you hold a copyright to any material you post, you grant rights to the Nashua Area Radio Society to display, distribute, redistribute, and reuse your posted content without limitations or restrictions.
Moderation and Periodic Review of Posted Content
Most content submitted to our website for posting will be subject to moderation (a review by one of our website admins) before it is posted.
Our Moderators also have the right to review all previously reviewed and posted content for appropriateness and they may remove posted content which is deemed inappropriate. This may, for example, happen due to policy changes or due to errors during the initial review process or for other reasons.
Moderators have the right to decline to post content or to remove any posted content that they deem to not be appropriate.
All decisions by our moderators are final.
Ownership of Posted Content
Once posted, all content becomes the property of the Nashua Area Radio Society. Members, Internet Subscribers, and Club Licensees convey these ownership rights to NARS upon submitting content for review and posting.
All content that is posted on the Nashua Area Radio Society website including, but not limited to, graphics files, photographs, videos, articles, pages, posts, website structure, and naming is copyright Nashua Area Radio Society. All rights are reserved. Material on our website may not be reproduced elsewhere in any form without prior written permission.
Failure to comply with these Policies and Guidelines
Failing to comply with these policies and guidelines can result in the removal of your posted content from our website and/or (in egregious cases) the removal of your Membership, Internet Subscription, or Club License.
Questions?
Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions about these policies and guidelines, are wondering if a certain piece of content is appropriate to post, or have questions about anything content related.