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Hamvention® Club of the Year Award

March 12, 2019 Anita Kemmerer 2 Comments

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:

Rookies and Elmers who joined the weekly repeater net.

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

Education and Training, Featured, General, Newsletter

New Ham Boot Camp

March 3, 2019 Anita Kemmerer

The Nashua Area Radio Society is starting a new program called New Ham Boot Camp. This will be a series of events to help you get on the air with your Amateur Radio License. You are invited to the first event, which will be held this Saturday, March 9^th at Fred, AB1OC and Anita, AB1QB’s QTH and will include the following:

HT Programming
Getting Started with EchoLink
Join a Repeater Net
Fox Hunting
Shack Open House and Tour

The event will be from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday, March 9^th. A light lunch will be provided.

If you are interested in attending, please email me at [email protected]. If you would like help with programming your HT, please email me the Make and Model.

Keith, KC1IMK working the Satellites with Fred, AB1OC

Some of the follow-on events will include the following. We’ll update the dates and places as we finalize the plans.

Topics	Date
HT Programming Getting Started with Echolink Join the Repeater Net Fox Hunting Shack Open House and Tour at AB1OC/AB1QB	Saturday, March 9th 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Satellite Operating Session Learn to Operate Digital HF GOTA SOTA (Summits on the Air) Intro	Saturday March 16th starting After the NARS Breakfast (Around 10:00 am) to 2:00 pm
How to pick a Radio Commercial Antenna Options Group Trip to Ham Radio Outlet in Salem with Elmers	Tuesday March 19th
Build an Antenna for VHF/UHF How to pick an antenna and tune it up	TBD
How to setup an HF Station HF Radio Choices Building, tuning, and putting up a first HF Antenna Getting on 6 meters Mobile HF	TBD
New Ham Contest (ARRL Rookie Roundup SSB)	Sunday, April 14th
Hands-on Field Day Visit	Friday - Sunday June 21st - 23rd
Join the Spring HAB Launch	May / June TBD

N1FD Multi-Op team at 2018 Rookie Roundup SSB

We also have many on the air activities planned to help you use the skills that you get through the bootcamp. See Get Active! for more information.

We hope to see our newly licensed members at Ham Radio Boot Camp and then hear you on the air!

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