Winter Field Day with GARA

It’s Winter Field Day time again!  Winter Field Day (WFD) is similar to the ARRL Field Day held at the end of every June, with the goals of exercising our emergency communications skills and making as many contacts as possible during the operating period.

GARA’s 2026 WFD activities again will take place at Hagan Stone Park Group Campsite 1. Setup will start at 2 PM Friday January 23. The 30 hour operating period begins 11 AM  Saturday and ends 4:59 PM Sunday. We normally wrap up around 2 PM Sunday to allow time for tear-down. We will be operating one HF station from a heated tent using one of the club antennas. This year there are quite a few more multipliers available to increase our score and we should be able to take advantage of many of them. WFD rules are here. I hope you will consider coming out to help set up/tear down and operate the station. Several of us plan to camp out during the event and you are welcome to join us. If you have any questions, please let me know by replying to this email.

I hope to see you at Hagan Stone Park!

Dave McLin, AC4A