On behalf of the Portage County Amateur Radio Service (PCARS), the 2018 Hamvention (R) Club of the Year - our CONGRATULATIONS to all of the 2019 winners !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tom, KB8UUZ PCARS Newsletter Editor
Hi Doug, I have sent several Emails to your QRZ address, about the original W5MIL, but have not received a reply to any of them. Is your Email good on QRZ. 73, John W5JON
Mike, I was born and raised in New Jersey, no offense here. Thanks for your efforts. Tom, AB1NS Nashua Area Radio Club
Around 11 months ago I struck up a conversation with a fellow ham in the HRO in Salem, NH. I mentioned to him that I was a new ham and was studying for my Amateur Extra exam. He told me that his ham club, Nashua Area Radio Society, had a 3 day boot camp that started the next Friday and I should enroll for the course. I took his advice and by the next Sunday I passed the exam and became an Extra! I was impressed with the course and the people, so joined the club. New to the hobby, I did not fully participate in all of the activities the club had to offer, but still participated in Field day, operated as K2K during the 13 Colonies contest (the club came in first place for Club category) helped run a GOTA station at the NEARfest where the club had an extensive display and demonstration attended by 100 + local high school students. Videoed the launch of a High Altitude Balloon, also attended by many school students. My personal station is a modest one, but through the club I have been able to operate on a world class station, most recently during the ARRL International DX Contest. I am grateful for the strong leadership and enthusiastic membership and warm welcome and support given by all this year. I feel the club has given me much more than I have given it and after thinking about that realize that the same is probably true for most members. That is the beauty of many like minds working together, the resulting whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Congratulations to all of my new friends at NARS and I look forward to another great year.
Around 11 months ago I struck up a conversation with a fellow ham in the HRO in Salem, NH. I mentioned to him that I was a new ham and was studying for my Amateur Extra exam. He told me that his ham club, Nashua Area Radio Society, had a 3 day boot camp that started the next Friday and I should enroll for the course. I took his advice and by the next Sunday I passed the exam and became an Extra! I was impressed with the course and the people, so joined the club. New to the hobby, I did not fully participate in all of the activities the club had to offer, but still participated in Field day, operated as K2K during the 13 Colonies contest (the club came in first place for Club category) helped run a GOTA station at the NEARfest where the club had an extensive display and demonstration attended by 100 + local high school students. Videoed the launch of a High Altitude Balloon, also attended by many school students. My personal station is a modest one, but through the club I have been able to operate on a world class station, most recently during the ARRL International DX Contest. I am grateful for the strong leadership and enthusiastic membership and warm welcome and support given by all this year. I feel the club has given me much more than I have given it and after thinking about that realize that the same is probably true for most members. That is the beauty of many like minds working together, the resulting whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Congratulations to all of my new friends at NARS and I look forward to another great year.
Congratulations to Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF, the 2019 Hamvention Amateur of the Year. Dr. Frissell has worked tirelessly to connect the amateur radio and professional scientific community in innovative new ways for the benefit of science and for improved knowledge about our charged upper atmosphere, and radio propagation central to our radio hobby. I forecast great things to come from his continued leadership, in the cause of advancing human understanding about our planet's atmosphere. To learn about HamSCI and its efforts, visit its home page at http://hamsci.org .
Thank you Mike, Tim, Chip, Phil, and all! It is a great honor, and I am very appreciative. None of the HamSCI work would have been possible without the enthusiasm and support of the whole ham radio community. It's been great, and I look forward to much more! I hope to see many of you at the HamSCI workshop at Case Western Reserve next week! 73 de Nathaniel W2NAF
Congratulations to all the Winners. You are all very deserving of the honor! Looking forward to meeting them all at Hamvention 2019 Jack, WB8SCT
I have worked Fred AB1OC a number of times in either contests or special event operations. A very good ham radio operator and my congratulations to the Nashua Area Radio Society!!! VY 73 de Joe KJ8O
But the horse can do! Nah. Nashua is a Tech hub in NH, dominated by the presence of BAE and other defense contractors.
