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WSJT-X and FT8 – A Video Introduction

The Nashua Area Radio Society recently held a Tech Night on WSJT-X: FT8, WSPR, MSK144, and More. This Tech Night was recorded and provides a good starting point for folks who want to understand what the WSJT-X software can do, how to use it, and how to integrate it into their station.

August 2018 Tech Night – WSJT-X: FT8, WSPR, MSK144, and More

The video from our Tech Night includes lots of information about how to get started as well as some recorded demonstrations of FT8 and Meteor Scatter contacts.

Topics Cover During WSJT-X Tech Night
Topics Cover During WSJT-X Tech Night

Our Tech Night also covered tools like PSKreporter and JTAlert that can be used with WSJT-X. Finally, we spent some time on using WSPR to evaluate your station’s performance and how you can use the software to do more “exotic” QSOs such as Meteor Scatter on 6m.

Nashua Area Radio Society members have access to our full library of over 30 Tech Night Video on a wide range of topics for both beginning and advanced Hams. You can see the list of what is available on the Nashua Area Radio Society Tech Night page.

I hope you enjoy the video!

Fred, AB1OC

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New Hampshire QSO Party Multi-Op as N1FD

The New Hampshire QSO Party was last weekend, September 15-16 and AB1OC and AB1QB hosted a multi-op entry from their station using the N1FD callsign.

Bob, KC1RLS and Anita, AB1QB in the NHQP
Bob, KC1RLS and Anita, AB1QB in the NHQP

The following members were part of the team that operated as N1FD:

N1FD Score in 2018 NH QSO Party
N1FD Score in 2018 NH QSO Party

We made close to 1600 QSOs during the 18-hour contest and our preliminary score was 104,742.

The team has entered the club competition in the Superstation Category.  Here is a link to the 2018 NHQP page in 3830 where you can see our score details along with those of other NARS members who operated in the contest..

 

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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

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