Field Day

ARRL Field Day Overview

ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada.  Each year over 35,000 amateurs gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate.

ARRL Field Day is not a fully adjudicated contest, which explains much of its popularity.  It is a time where many aspects of Amateur Radio come together to highlight our many roles. While some will treat it as a contest, most groups use the opportunity to practice their emergency response capabilities.  It is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate Amateur Radio to local elected community leaders, key individuals with the organizations that Amateur Radio might serve in an emergency, as well as the general public. For many clubs, ARRL Field Day is one of the highlights of their annual calendar.

Sun Country Amateur Radio Society sets up shop in Citrus County at Fred's (AE2DX) place.  Fred has plenty of space to setup as many antennas as we need.  We try to have stations going for most of the contest.  Some of our members will be working PSK31, some will be working CW and the others will be working phone. 

Below are some links to the Field Day activities, including a few photos that were taken at the events.

If you have never been to one of these events, I highly recommend you take the time to come out and see what Field Day is all about.  Field Day takes place during the 4th weekend in June.  If you're a ham radio operator or even a person who is just interested in ham radio, make plans now to join us.


Field Day 2011        June 25 & 26, 2011       
Field Day 2012        June 23 & 24, 2012       
Field Day 2013        June 22 & 23, 2013       
Field Day 2014        June 28 & 29, 2014       
Field Day 2015        June 27 & 28, 2015       
Field Day 2016        June 25 & 26, 2016       Detail Information    KC7FPF Video    KJ4TDZ Video
Field Day 2017        June 24 & 25, 2017       Detail Information       
Field Day 2018        June 23 & 24, 2018       Detail Information       
Field Day 2019        June 22 & 23, 2019       Detail Information       
Field Day 2020        June 26 & 27, 2020       Detail Information       
Field Day 2021        June 26 & 27, 2021       Detail Information       
Field Day 2022        June 25 & 26, 2021       Detail Information       


Objective

To work as many stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands) 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.

Dates

Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday (-4 hours for EDT) and running through 2059 UTC Sunday.  (2:00PM on Saturday through 5:00PM on Sunday)
 

Portions of the above information has been reprinted with permission from the ARRL website http://www.arrl.org