2021 ARRL Field Day is June 26-27

Objective To contact as many stations as possible on the 160, 80, 40, 20,15 and 10 Meter HF bands, as well as all bands 50 MHz and above, and to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. Field Day is open to all amateurs in the areas covered by the ARRL/RAC Field Organizations and countries within IARU Region 2. DX stations residing in other regions may be contacted for credit, but are not eligible to submit entries. Each claimed contact must include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on both sides of the contact. Initiation of…

Upcoming Hamfests

06/05/2021 – FCARC SummerFest Location: Wauseon, OH Sponsor: Fulton County Amateur Radio Club 07/10/2021 – Mansfield Mid-Summer Trunkfest Location: Mansfield, OH Sponsor: InterCity Amateur Radio Club 07/17/2021 – NOARSFEST Location: Elyria, OH Sponsor: Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society 07/18/2021 – Van Wert Hamfest Location: VAN WERT, OH Sponsor: Van Wert Amateur Radio Club 08/07/2021 – 2021 Columbus Hamfest Location: Grove City, OH Sponsor: Aladdin Shrine Audio Unit 08/28/2021 – Cincinnati Hamfest Location: Owensville, OH Sponsor: Milford ARC 09/26/2021 – Cleveland Hamfest Location: Berea, OH Sponsor: Hamfest Association of Cleveland 12/04/2021 – FCARC WinterFest Location: Delta, OH Sponsor: Fulton County Amateur…

Tonight’s Meeting Location

The XWARN Meeting for May will be held in the Buckeye Room in the 4-H Extension Office at the Fairgrounds. If you are not familiar with the building, just look for the antenna! It is behind the grandstand. If you pull into the Fairgrounds at the entrance right past the horse racing track, keep going forward past where the previous meetings were and take a right. Hope to see you there!

Hamvention QSO Party 2021

Hamvention QSO Party will be held as a 12 hour event on Saturday of what would have been the Hamvention weekend: May 22, 2021 8am to 8pm EDST W8BI, the club call of the Dayton Amateur Radio Association Bonus station, will be a bonus station scored at 10 points per band and mode: Typical call will be: CQ CQ HVQP (HamVention QSO Party) W8XX (Your call) Typical exchange will be signal report and first year you attended Hamvention; eg on CW: KB8XXX 599 1998 W4XX If you have never attended Hamvention, please send 2021 in place of the year. Modes…

XWARN May Meeting

The XWARN Meeting for May will be held in the Buckeye Room in the 4-H Extension Office at the Fairgrounds. If you are not familiar with the building, just look for the antenna! It is behind the grandstand. If you pull into the Fairgrounds at the entrance right past the horse racing track, keep going forward past where the previous meetings were and take a right. Hope to see you there!