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Summer Activities – A Picnic and a SOTA

The weekend of August 25th and 26th brought a break from the rainy and hot weather and provided beautiful weather for two NARS summer activities.

On Saturday, August 25th, we held our Family Picnic at Greeley Park in Nashua.  It was a potluck lunch and members brought lots of great food to eat.  It was an enjoyable time, eating great food and chatting with our Ham Radio friends and their families.

Here is a gallery of pictures from the picnic:

Bright and early on Sunday, August 26th we all headed to Mount Washington for our SOTA/POTA activation.  We had another beautiful day with relatively warm temperatures for Mount Washington’s 6000 ft elevation in the 50s.  Most of us drove up on the scenic Mount Washington Auto Road.  We made contacts on many modes and bands on the mountain including

  • Satellite contacts using an Elk Yagi and a Kenwood HT
  • 6 meter SSB and FT8 using the Icom 7300 and an M2 6 meter Yagi
  • HF using Jamey’s Buddipole
  • 2 meter contacts using HTs and the Elk Yagi
Mike and Jamey Work 2 Meters
Mike and Jamey Work 2 Meters

Both the Picnic and the Mount Washington trip were a lot of fun and we’re looking forward to doing these again next year!

Anita, AB1QB

Activities, Featured, General, On The Air

Club competition for the New Hampshire QSO Party (NHQP)

Updates to the article in red.

The New Hampshire QSO Party (www.w1wqm.org/nhqso) is held in the third full weekend of September. This year the contest is held on Saturday, September 15th from noon to midnight, and September 16th from noon to 6 PM. (That’s 1600 UTC Sat to 0400 UTC Sun, and 1600 UTC Sun to 2200 UTC). To encourage participation in the event, the Nashua Area Radio Society will have a “contest in a contest” competition. To enter, just do the following:

  1. Get on the air and operate in the contest following all NHQP rules.
  2. At the conclusion of the contest post your score to the 3830 website (details below).
  3. Email me notifying that you’ve entered, and tell me which category you operated within.
  4. Don’t forget to submit your log to the contest sponsor and specify the “Nashua Area Radio Society” as your affiliated club.

Categories

Operating categories make it possible to compare “apples to apples”. It isn’t fair for a station with three towers to compete with a little pistol station with just a dipole! So, the following categories for the NARS competition will be used (single operators only except for Superstation):

  • QRP. Any antenna configuration is OK. Power output is limited to 5 watts CW/digital, and 10 watts SSB.
  • Small Station. This can be any single radio with output power no more than 100 watts using vertical antennas or dipoles only. No receive-only systems.
  • TB-Wires. Same as Small Station except that one antenna with gain can be available. Wires/dipoles/verticals must be used for everything else. No receive-only systems.
  • Superstation. Multiple operators OK. Multiple gain antennas available. Receive-only antenna systems or listening arrays available. Power greater than 100 watts.
  • New Hampshire stations and stations outside NH will be ranked separately.

Note that “assistance” (spotting systems, repeaters, etc.) is allowed in the contest, and in this competition.

Submitting your entry

Go to the 3830 Scores website (3830scores.com) and navigate to the New Hampshire QSO Party entry. Enter all of the information demanded by the website and submit your score. (If you are having trouble computing your score, contact me directly.)

Once your entry is live on the 3830 site, email me ([email protected]) and tell me the call sign you used, and which entry category for the club competition you’ve selected (QRP, Small Station, TB-Wires, or Superstation). That’s it! I’ll use the submitted scores to determine the winner in each category.

RESULTS

The results of the competition will be announced at the October general meeting of NARS.

Activities, Featured, General, Newsletter, On The Air

ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY

The ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY was held on Sunday, August 19th.  The N1FD rookie multi-op team, operating from AB1OC’s QTH took 1st place overall in the contest!

Congratulations to the Rookies who operated in the contest:

Thanks to Jamey, AC1DC, and Fred, AB1OC for being elmers to the rookies!

Here are the final scores:

2018 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores
2018 ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY Scores

For the complete results, please visit http://www.b4h.net/arrlrr/rr_scores201808.php

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