The Nashua Area Radio Society is a group of New England Ham Radio enthusiasts with a wide range of interests. Our organization’s mission is to:
- Encourage and help people to become licensed and active in the Amateur Radio Service
- Spark Interest among young people in STEM Education and Careers through Amateur Radio
- Provide training and mentoring to enable Amateur Radio Operators to improve their technical and operating skills and to be prepared to assist in times of emergency
- Sponsor on-air operating activities so that Amateurs may practice and fully develop their operating skills and have fun with Ham Radio!
Are you Looking for our newsletter articles? You can find them on our Blog here. Also, you can find our Dayton Hamvention® forum presentation here.
Plans For Online Meetings and Tech Nights
To this end, we will open our Membership Meetings and Tech Nights to include our Internet Subscribers, and we are also inviting all US-based Hams to join us online for these meetings. We will have our usual excellent speakers for these meetings, and they will deliver live presentations and conduct Q&A online.
Here is a summary of our planned meetings:
- Tuesday, April 2nd, 7 pm Eastern – Nashua Area Radio Society Regular Meeting. Our speakers will be Bob Glorioso, W1IS and Bob Rose, KC1DSQ, and their presentation will be The In’s and Out’s of End Fed Antennas. The meeting will be online via Zoom as well as at the Nashua Library in the NPL Theater. Our pre-meeting get-together begins at 6:45 pm. Click here to Join Our Zoom Meeting.
- Tuesday, April 9th, 7 pm Eastern – Nashua Area Radio Society Tech Night. Our Tech Night topic is Portable Operation and POTA and the speakers will be the Nashua Area Radio Society POTA Tiger Team. This will be an online meeting. Our pre-meeting get-together begins at 6:45 pm. Click here to join Our Zoom Meeting.
We suggest you join our meetings online at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start times.
Spring 2024 Ham Bootcamp Registration
Ham Bootcamp includes a series of demonstrations and tutorials designed to help newly licensed Technician, General, and Extra class license holders get on the air and use their amateur radio license. Bootcamp is also a great opportunity for prospective Hams who are interested in seeing what the hobby has to offer.
You can learn more about Ham Bootcamp and register here.
License Classes Include Online Exams
Our Spring 2024 Technician, General, and Extra License classes are scheduled, and registration is open. We will be offering online license exams for class students! You can learn more about our Classes here.
Nashua Area Radio Society Featured On HamNation
The Nashua Area Radio Society’s activities and projects were featured on HamNation on Wednesday, September 23rd. You can see a copy of our presentation that we shared on Ham Nation here.
Our segment includes some information about our online training materials. Also, you can learn more about our online training materials and how to get access to them via this link.
Support STEM Learning Through Amateur Radio
We have begun a fundraising campaign to enable us to continue and expand our training projects such as our High-Altitude Balloon projects, electronics kit projects, license training, our Amateur Radio Expositions for Young People, and other projects. In addition, your donations support our STEM learning experiences for young people and equipment and training for emergency communications readiness. Please consider supporting our work via your GoFundMe donation.
We hold regular Meetings, Tech Nights, License Classes and Youth Activities, and other events to provide training experiences and to enable our members to realize our mission. The Nashua Area Radio Society is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to STEM Education through Amateur Radio and to the development of radio communications skills and Emergency Preparedness through Amateur Radio.
Internet Subscription Available for Mentoring and Learning!
The Nashua Area Radio Society is widely recognized for its work in mentoring and Development of Amateur Radio skills among members and within our community here in New Hampshire.
We’ve created an option to enable Hams and potential Hams to take advantage of our training materials and learning forums here on our website. Our Internet Subscription is available to everyone who lives in the United States and outside of the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts for a small yearly donation that supports our programs.
An Internet Subscription includes Full Access to our extensive online Tech Night Video Training Library and Q&A posting in several of our most popular forums here on our website. You can sign-up or learn more about our Internet Subscription and our Membership Options here.
High-Altitude Balloon Launch 4 Video
We launched High-Altitude Balloon 4 to the edge of space again this past Sunday, June 9th. During HAB-4’s flight, we capture the balloon bursting at an altitude of over 103,000 ft! The resulting burst video follows below.
You can see videos and photos from all of our HAB flights here.
Nashua Area Radio Society is the Hamvention® 2019 Club Of The Year
The Nashua Area Radio Society has been recognized as the Hamvention® 2019 Club of the Year! We received this recognition for our many mentoring, new Ham development, and youth outreach actives. You can see the announcement video and read more about our many mentoring and development activities here on our Blog. Congratulations and a special thanks to all of our members whose many contributions to The Nashua Area Radio Society’s activities and programs made this possible!! Also, a special Thank You to the Dayton Hamvention® team for this recognition of our efforts.
Hudson Memorial School ISS Crew Contact
The Nashua Area Radio Society helped students at Hudson Memorial School in Hudson, NH to make a live contact via Amateur Radio with Serena Aunon-Chancellor on the International Space Station. This once in a lifetime opportunity was made possible via a joint effort between Dan Pooler, AC1EN and other Faculty Members at Hudson Memorial School, the ARISS, and NASA. You can view the video of our contact below.
You can learn more about our contact with the International Space Station via these articles here on n1fd.org:
- 3….2…..1….. Successful ARISS Crew Contact
- Journey to an ISS Crew Contact
- Hudson Memorial School ARISS Crew Contact Transcript
- ISS Crew Contact – The Day Is Almost Here
- ISS Crew Contact – Summary Of Our Preparations
A special Thank You to the Faculty and Students at Hudson Memorial School for affording us the privilege of being part of their experience and to all of the members of the Nashua Area Radio Society who worked so hard to support the contact.
Field Day 2018
The Nashua Area Radio Society was part of the 2018 ARRL Field Day event this weekend. We have a long history of participation in Field Day and you can read more about some of our previous Field Day operations here.
We had great media coverage at our Field Day operation this year including reporters from two TV channels here in New Hampshire. A story about our Field Day operation was shown on the WMUR Manchester Newscast at 6 pm last evening. You can view the TV news story above.
Field Day is about training and emergency preparedness, learning about new communications technology, and having fun!
We were an 11A station this year with four towers and several high-performance wire antennas. You can read more about our Field Day 2018 operation here.
Our Field Days are being held at the Hudson Memorial School in Hudson, NH.
We hope you enjoy our 2018 Field Day highlights video.
STEM Learning via Our High Altitude Balloon (HAB) Projects
The Nashua Area Radio Society made its way to the edge of space and back again for the third time on June 3rd, 2018! You can read more about our launch here.
We’ve also posted some information about HAB-3’s flight here.
A composite video of our four HAB launches to date can be viewed below.
Also, you can view the HAB-3 launch and flight video below.
We did another HAB launch in October of last year. Students in our STEM Program launched our High Altitude Balloon (HAB) from Winchester, NH and successfully recovered in from a pond in Maine.
Our HAB carries a 2m APRS transmitter which sends our HAB’s position and other telemetry data to the ground during its flight. HAB-1 flew to 91,650 ft in about 3 hours and 10 minutes. HAB-2 flew to 117,932 ft in about 2 hours and 30 minutes. The descent took about an hour for both HAB-1 and HAB-2. Here is a picture from the 2nd camera on the HAB-1 looking up at the balloon just before it bursts.
You can find more on the HAB launches in forum posts about our HAB’s Projects and Flights.
You can view the video of HAB-1’s launch and flight above.
And the video of HAB-2’s launch and flight can also be viewed above
You can find out more about our HAB projects and the STEM learning work that we do as part of them via the Space Category on our blog here on our website.
The Nashua Area Radio Society’s Mission
We offer many activities to help our members learn skills and have fun with Amateur Radio. You can learn more about our activities here or take a look at the video below.
The Nashua Area Radio Society’s mission includes a focus on helping new people and particularly young people get started in and to learn technical and communications skills through Amateur Radio. We recently put together a video for HAM Nation about how Amateur Radio Clubs can help in this area. You can view the video below. To learn more about how young people can have fun and grow through Amateur Radio, take a look at our Youth Activities page.
Our Video as Featured on HAM Nation, January 4th, 2017
Having Fun and Learning Through Ham Radio
We have a lot of fun with and learn valuable skills through Ham Radio as part of our many activities. We really enjoy getting on the air and making contacts!
Our activities include our annual Field Day operation where we practice our emergency station building and operating skills. We have sponsored or participated in many on-air activities such a Summits On The Air (SOTA), Parks On The Air (POTA), and ARRL National Parks On The Air. We also hold weekly repeater nets and HF nets. Everyone is welcome to join us and participate in our on-the-air activities.
Our Meetings and Tech Nights
We hold a Membership Meeting and a Tech Night on the first and second Tuesday evening of each month at 7 pm. You can see the planned topics of our Membership Meetings here and the topics for our Tech Nights here. Click on the following link for more information and for directions to our meetings.
You can find information on how to contact us here.
The Nashua Area Radio Society is an ARRL Special Service Amateur Radio Organization, providing a variety of services to our community, to our members, and to all Radio Amateurs. You can learn more about our ARRL affiliation here.