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NARS Activities at Upcoming Regional, and National Ham Radio Conventions

The Nashua Area Radio Society will be hosting Amateur Radio Displays, Expos, and Forums at Regional and National Hamfests and Ham Radio Conventions over the next 6 months.

Dayton Hamvention ® 2019

2019 ARRL National Convention at Hamvention
2019 ARRL National Convention at Hamvention

We will be a Special Guest of the ARRL in their Booth at Dayton this year. You can learn more via the ARRL’s flyer here. Quite a few NARS members will be attending Dayton 2019 and many will be supporting our presence in the ARRL Booth. We will also be hosting the ARRL Member forum on Friday, May 17th in Room 3. If you are going to Dayton this year, stop by and meet our members and say Hello!

Boxboro Regional Amateur Radio Convention

Boxboro 2018 - NARS Team at Boxboro
NARS Team at Boxboro Regional Convention

We are also planning another Youth Expo at the Boxboro Regional Ham Convention to be held on September 6th, 7th, and 8th. Our Expo will feature over 10 Amateur Radio Displays including:

We are looking for NARS members to help us with these activities. Please contact Anita at [email protected] if you’d like to help.

It’s going to be a great few months for the Nashua Area Radio Society!

Fred, AB1OC

Hamvention® Club of the Year Award

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:

Teaching Amateur Radio Licence Classes
Rookies and Elmers who joined the weekly repeater net.
Rookies and Elmers who joined the weekly repeater net.
Students and the NARS Operator Team
Students and the NARS Operator Team
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

NARS to be ARRL Expo Spotlighted Club at Hamvention®

The Nashua Area Radio Society has been invited by the ARRL to be a spotlighted club in the ARRL Expo at the 2019 Dayton Hamvention®!   The theme of this year’s Hamvention is “Mentoring the Next Generation” and the ARRL invited us to be part of their booth because of our focus on Education, new Ham Development, Mentoring, and Youth Outreach.

The Dayton Hamvention, now held at the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, OH, is the largest Amateur Radio Convention in the world.  You will see booths from just about any vendor you can imagine.  There are also many educational forums on topics such as Contesting, Antennas, AMSAT, SDRs and much more!  This year’s Hamvention will be held on May 17th – 19th.

ARRL Expo at 2017 Hamvention
ARRL Expo at Hamvention

We will be taking a group photo of our members at the March Meeting this Tuesday, March 5th.  Please plan to attend the meeting so that you can be part of this photo!

If you would like to travel to Dayton to attend the Hamvention and would like to help staff the booth,  please contact Anita, AB1QB at [email protected] or talk to me before or after the meeting on Tuesday.

Anita, AB1QB

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