Winter Field Day for 2025 was another cold one, starting at 31 degrees as we started deploying our antennas at the Appalachian Conference grounds in Dublin, VA. Setup was completed about 11:00am and included 3 stations sharing the DX Commander antenna through two available triplexers. We first started on 10, 15, and 20 meters, and […]
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Winter Field Day 2025
Saturday, January 25th, 2023 10am to midnight. Schedule Saturday 25th:10:00AM – Setup teams meet and deploy antenna and radio systems11:00AM – Winter Field Day Start11:59PM – Tear down and go home This is the fourth year for the club participation in Winter Field Day, and hope you will be able to attend! We will have […]
Field Day 2024
We’re looking forward to participating in the 2024 ARRL Field Day! This year will be Saturday June 22th thru Sunday June 23th for 2024. More details at the ARRL website here. If you would like to join us, come on out! See additional links below for more details.
Winter Field Day 2024
Saturday, January 27th, 2023 noon to midnight. Schedule Saturday 27th: 12:00PM – Setup teams meet and deploy antenna and radio systems 2:00PM – Winter Field Day Start 11:59PM – Tear down and go home This is the third year for the club participation in Winter Field Day, and hope you will be able to attend! […]
Field Day 2023
We’re looking forward to participating in the 2023 ARRL Field Day! If you don’t know, it will be Saturday June 24th thru Sunday June 25th for 2023. More details at the ARRL website here. If you would like to join us, come on out! See additional links below for more details.
Review – Winter Field Day 2023
Winter Field Day for 2023 was very mild as far as weather goes (40 degrees). With the mild weather in view, we decided to set up the equipment the day of the activity. Again we were able to set up at the Appalachian Conference grounds in Dublin, VA (thanks to WD4JIX). Setup started around 11:30am […]
Review – 2022 Sept ARRL VHF Contest
The Plan Expectations were high despite the gloomy outlook with the weather reports. LOTs of rain was in the forecast, but we kept planning and gathering the tools for our first VHF contest outing (at least my first with the club). The ARRL September VHF contest information can be found here (click). This contest requires […]
Field Day 2022
We’re looking forward to participating in the 2022 ARRL Field Day! If you don’t know, it will be Saturday June 25th thru Sunday June 26th for 2022.If you would like to join us, come on out! If you can’t come out, you can still participate from home. See additional links below for more details.
Review – Winter Field Day 2022
It was a blustery afternoon on Saturday January 29th, 2022, and we were glad to have put up our antennas the day prior. Erecting the antennas during snow is much preferred to windy and 16 degrees! First up was establishing the warmth, as Steve WD4JIX used his scouting skills to kindle the hearth and heart […]
Field Day 2021
2021 ARRL Field Day was fun, even with the protections taken to provide for a safer environment combating COVID-19.