ARRL Field Day is June 24 2:00 P.M. – June 25th 5:00 P.M. EST. Wayne Amateur Radio Club will be operating from the Com Center, which is open to the public to attend. You do not have to have a license to operate with us at the Com Center. We will have licensed amateur radio operators there to act as control operators and allow someone interested to make contacts with other stations, and learn about amateur radio.
What is Field Day?
“Field Day is ham radio’s open house. Every June, more than 40,000 hams throughout North America set up temporary transmitting stations in public places to demonstrate ham radio’s science, skill and service to our communities and our nation. It combines public service, emergency preparedness, community outreach, and technical skills all in a single event. Field Day has been an annual event since 1933, and remains the most popular event in ham radio.”
Station Plans
Class – 4F (4 transmitters operation out of an Emergency Operations Center)
Primary Operating Bands – 80, 40, 20, and 6 meters
Free VHF – Being an EOC, we may set up a 2 meter station.
Antenna – Off Center Fed dipole, fed with band pass filters and triplexer.
Logging Software- N3FJP Field Day Software
Modes – CW, Phone, and possibly digital (CW operators, we need you!)
Time and Location
Setup Time – June 24th 10:00 AM EST (All are welcome to help)
Contest Start Time – 2:00 PM EST
Operating Hours – The event is from June 24th 2:00 PM – June 25th 5:00 PM. We will often go home around 10:00 PM on June 24th and return in the morning around 8:00 AM. If you plan to come later in the evening and want to make sure we are still there, reach out and let us know either through the website or our repeater. We should be monitoring the 147.21 Mhz repeater with a PL on 88.5
Location – Com Center, which is located in the southwest corner of Oldman and Burbank Rd. in Wooster.
GPS Coordinates – 40.8355, -81.9398