The Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club’s May meeting is Thursday, May 21st, at the Pepperell Community Center. We’ll start socializing at 7:00 PM, with the main meeting kicking off at 7:30 PM.

Guest Speaker: Phil Erickson, W1PJE

Part 97 of the FCC rules states that a primary purpose of the amateur radio service is the “Continuation and extension of the amateur’s proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.” Recent advances in the fields of computing, software defined radio, and signal processing provide unprecedented opportunities for radio amateurs to meet this mandate, specifically in the field of radio science.

HamSCI (https://hamsci.org/), the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation, is a platform for the publicity and promotion of projects related to this.

Phil will provide an update on HamSCI activities from the recent March 2026 workshop held near ARRL headquarters, including the current configuration of the Personal Space Weather Station and other relevant projects. Phil is a wonderful speaker, and we are all looking forward to the presentation.

Hope to see you there.  Feel free to bring a family member or friend!

Rod WA1TAC recently took this antenna out of service and it’s surplus to his needs.

Rod is generously offering it to anyone who needs such an antenna.

Contact Rod.

Here’s the link.

(May 9 2026)

Our recent Technician licensing class is over, and I’m happy to report 13 people have passed their exams.

Please welcome the following:

Contact  Callsign   City

Mark      KC1ZIQ     Townsend
Jason     KC1ZJR      Ashby
Tom       KC1ZMK    Shirley
Lee        KC1ZML    Townsend
David     KC1ZMQ   Pepperell
Alex       KC1ZMU    Leominster
Chris      KC1ZMV    Harvard
Bob        KC1ZMY    Chelmsford
Patty       KC1ZNA    Pepperell
Cooper   KC1ZNG    Harvard
Niels       KC1ZNH    Arlington
Arnold    KC1ZNI     N. Chelmsford
Ben         KC1ZNS    Harvard

Wish all of them congratulations!

BTW, Les – N11SV, Bob – N1DVC, and Mark NS1V – helped me immensely with this class and I would like to thank them for their help.

Bruce, K1BG

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There’s a very nice article from Paul KC1YMR on some SOTA adventures! No doubt better than me droning on and on about POTA…

Hard copies will be delivered to Ham Radio Outlet and Electronics Plus tomorrow.

73,
John KK1X