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September Meeting Tuesday
9-1-2026 in Meredith
We’ll have two general topics:
#1 The CNHARC Special Interest Groups aka SIGs.
This is a tremendous time of technology change in ham radio and joining a local special interest group can not only enhance your knowledge, it can be social and downright FUN!
We’ll have a quick introduction by Rick Zach, KK1RZ on why we are doing this then each SIG leader will explain what they intend to explore.
- DMR Special Interest Group by Rich, WF1V
- LUNUX for ham radio by Kevin, W1KVM
- Artificial Intellegence for Ham Radio by Rick, KK1RZ (including how AI research is seriously helping with our Gunstock repeater integration)
- Remote SDR radio. We need a project leader to keep this moving forward but we have already received the needed donations of web-based SDR receiver hardware. The likely site is in Franklin due to a quiet location with excellent internet access.
We will be setting up several new CNHARC groups to support these SIGs at https://groups.io/g/cnharc but the details will be discussed at this meeting.
#2 Kits for ham radio
- Correct! The concept of the old Heathkit era is not dead. The technology has drastically changed but not the fun of building your own kits.
- The owner of WA4MCMkits.com will visit us via zoom explaining his goodies.
- Other kit vendors such as https://pebblehf.com/ will be introduced as well.
Zoom details: -pending, another email will follow but the web site will always be up to date.
Optional Dinner Meetup Time: 5:00pm – Giuseppe’s Pizza Ristorante, Meredith, NH
Program Time: 6:45pm at the Meredith Public Library, 91 Main Street, Meredith, NH 03253
Updated details will be on our web site https://www.cnharc.org.
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Our Summer CNHARC Newsletter is here with a big thanks to Rick, WF1V !
Per one of the articles, our President, Jonathan, KB1COL has been working to handle several ham estates. Some gear is being donated directly to a local Boy Scout Troop while other gear may be sold as a club fundraiser. Jonathan has the guy with the answers so contact him directly if you have any questions.
Jonathan, KB1COL <– email link
Summer Newsletter <– newsletter download
Our next club meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 1st at the Meredith Public Library. More information to follow but we will have our usual pre-meeting socializing and dinner at Guiseppis which is a bit over a block away.
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A permanent 78kW Diesel generator backup system has just been installed at the Gunstock summit for the 2026 winter season.
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Our 2M net
Our net will be held every Tuesday but now at 7:30PM instead of the previous 8PM. Gunstock 2M repeater 146.985 – PL-123.0
We will be rotating our net control stations (NCS) more frequently. Dave, K1DLM is organizing the net control schedules.
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