Come join the DARC for Winter Field Day 2025 January 25, 2025. This will be a fun indoor event. The DARC will be back at the Johnston Outpost YMCA. Winter Field Day 2025 is January 25 & 26, 2025 but the DARC will only operate Sat Jan 25, 2025, Plan on 11:00am (central time) for setup and will wrap things up by 6pm that day. WFD2025 will get underway as soon as setup is complete.

The purpose of Winter Field Day is to foster HAM camaraderie, field operation, emergency operating preparedness, and just plain on the air, outdoor fun in the midst of winter for American, Canadian, and DX HAMs.  Don’t let those winter doldrums keep you locked up in the house… get out and play some radio but be safe about it!!   Winter Field Day is the last full weekend in January of each year and runs for 30 hours 16:00 UTC Saturday to 21:59 UTC Sunday.

Popular operating modes include SSB, CW and digital modes – understand that the popular FT digital modes (FT8 and FT4) are NOT valid per the rules for WFD. Please familiarize yourself with the WFD rules for the proper exchange. The DARC will be running as W5FC 2I NTX – this means you don’t even need to be a licensed operator to participate, so come on out and have some fun. No need to bring any radio or gear – DARC will have two radios running (2I) with antennas all setup and ready to use.