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Winter Field Day 2026

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A snowy landscape featuring a road and trees, with a sign indicating 'CANCELED' crossed out, announcing the cancellation of 'DARC WFD 2026'.

The DARC leadership has decided to cancel Winter Field Day plans for 2026 due to the high potential for severe weather in the DFW area, which could make the event unsafe or unenjoyable.

We encourage everyone who is able to participate from their home stations instead. You may operate under your own callsign using the category, class, and location “1H NTX.” Full details and rules are available at https://winterfieldday.org/sop.php

While operating from home, please feel free to join us on our Discord server to share contacts, band openings, and other activity. You can join here: https://discord.com/invite/caJqhjSv

Most importantly, please stay safe and warm this weekend. Keep a radio handy and monitor our 146.88 repeater for SKYWARN and other RACES activations.

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Winter Field Day 2025

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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.

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Winter Field Day 2024

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Winter Field Day 2024 is January 27-28, 2024. Details of the event can be found at: winterfieldday.org The DARC had planned on participating but due to foul weather/rain the club event has been canceled. This doesn’t mean Winter Field Day 2024 is canceled! Operators are strongly encouraged to participate in the event and be sure to submit your log and then also claim your participation ticket for DARC-MOE where you could be the lucky winner of a Yaesu FT-710.

Winter Field Day 2023

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Come join the DARC for Winter Field Day 2023 January 28, 2023. This will be a fun outdoor SHINE ONLY event. The DARC will be back at Custer Park in Richardson. Winter Field Day 2023 is January 28 & 29, 2023 but the DARC will only operate Sat Jan 28, 2023 Plan on 11:00am for setup and will wrap things up by 6pm that day. WFD2023 will get underway at 1pm central time. The last minute change is due to the park in Irving was under construction with sewer work and unbearable sewer gas in the area. Please NOTE the new location is at Custer Park in Richardson – 701 W Renner Rd, Richardson, TX 75080.

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Winter Field Day 2022

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Come join the DARC for Winter Field Day 2022. This will be a fun outdoor event and we will be teamed up with the Irving Radio Club. Plan on attending in person Jan 29, 2022 Setup starts at 10am central time at TW Richardson Grove Park in Irving TX WFD officially starts at 1 pm central time and we are planning on being on the air and at the park until 8 pm central time.

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Winter Field Day 2021

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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 24 hours 1900 UTC Saturday to 1900 UTC Sunday. For 2021 this is January 30/31, 2021

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2020 Winter Field Day

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Come join Winter Field Day 2020 fun – a tri-club event that includes the Dallas Amateur Radio Club, Metrocrest Amateur Radio Club and the Irving Amateur Radio Club. This is an open public invitation – you don’t even need to have a HAM Radio license or a call sign to participate . The tri-club event will be operating under the special event call sign K5T and operating as 3I NTX. Details below.

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Winter Field Day 2018: GO

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It looks like the rain will be over before the event begins, so Winter Field Day is a GO for this Saturday, January 27th, 2018. Setup will begin at Dreyfuss Point at 10:00 AM, operating will begin at 1:00 PM, and the Lecture and Lab will take place at about 11:00 AM.

For the Lecture and Lab, we’ll be doing a 2-meter antenna build. Bring $5.00 and your choice of connector to fit an RG-58 cable…you’ll be building a neat roll-up J-pole. A soldering iron might be helpful, but we should have some there. Even if the official time is 11:00 AM, we’ll keep materials around for anyone who comes out and wants to add a great antenna to their HT or portable rig.

Not only will the rain be gone, but the weather should be sunny and warm. Come on out and join us!