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The Nashua Area Radio Club is Number 1 Field Day Again!

We got up to some great news this morning. The Nashua Area Radio Club is once again Number 1 Field Day!!

2016 ARRL Field Day Results - 7A Category
2016 Results – 7A Category

We are the Top Club in our Category (7A) for 2016 with a final score of 9,292. The next closest club was W6TRW with a score of 5,610. You can see all the 2016 results on the ARRL score page. For a more detailed breakdown of our score for 2016, check out our Field Day page.

Congratulations to everyone who helped to make our 2016 operation a success! Also, a special thank you to our planning team –

Our 2016 Field Day Planning Team
Our Planning Team
Field Day Presentation
Mike, K1WVO Helping To Deliver Our Field Day Presentation During Our Club Meeting
Field Day Presentation
Presentation At Our Club Meeting

We certainly have many great memories from our 2016 Operation. I spent some time today looking at the photos from our 2016 Operation and the video from our 2016 Operation again. I picked out some photos to share here –

40m V-Beam
Our 40m V-Beam

Our setup was well planned and the execution was top-notch!

CW Row
CW/6m Row With One Of Two Of Our Towers And Beams
20m CW Op
20m CW Station
DATV Station Equipment
SSB Stations and Digital ATV Station on 70 cm
Satellite Station Equipment
LEO Satellite Station

Many folks in our club pulled together to build our setup and we operated hard during Field Day.

Mike, KU1V Operating During Field Day 2016
Mike, KU1V Operating
40m CW Op
Ed, K2TE Operating 40m CW
20m CW Op
Bill, NJ1H Operating 20m CW
20m SSB Op
Jamey, KC1ENX, Operating 20m SSB
75m-15m SSB Op, AB1BY
Abby, KC1FFX Operating on 75m SSB
40m SSB Ops
Brian, AB1ZO Operating on 40m SSB
Jeff, WA1HCO Operating On 6m During Field Day 2016
Jeff, WA1HCO Operating On 6m
Field Day Fun
Field Day Fun 2016
Field Day Feast!
Merle, W1MSI Provided Us With A  Feast!

We also helped to introduce folks to Amateur Radio via our GOTA Station.

Field Day GOTA Station
Our GOTA Station Provided By Wayne, KB1HYL

It’s fun to think about all the great things that went on during Field Day this year.

Our 2016 Highlights Video

Looking forward to our 2017 Field Day operation!!!

Fred, AB1OC

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6M Propagation to Europe on JT65.

Wow, six meters was wide open this morning to Europe. I started playing on CW, but the signals were so steady that I decided to go to JT65 so I could see where I was being heard. I have included a pskreporter.info map filtered for my station for the previous 6 hours. The snapshot was taken at 2016-06-13 at 18:05 UTC. Beam was between 45 and 60 degrees. The USA stations were all off the back of a 3 element Yagi. Running 70 watts. The rig was my Flex-5000.

The ARRL VHF contest this weekend also had great openings, primarily state side, although I did work an EA8.

This is the time of year to get on 6 meters.

73,
Bill
NJ1H

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