Now available for sale, the 2020 edition of the Wisconsin Valley Radio Association Calendar. A vital accessory for any ham shack, this deluxe 12 month calendar will keep you on schedule while supporting amateur radio in North Central Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Valley Radio Association 2020 Calendar is a fund raiser to help offset the […]
Join us for Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) Field Day 2019! This is an annual event held the 4th full weekend in June, where clubs nationwide set up and operate in different and remote locations. This year, we will be having our event at St. Anthony Spirituality Center at 300 E. 4th St. in Marathon […]
The Wisconsin Valley Radio Association(WVRA) is sponsoring and hosting an Amateur Radio license examination session, to be held on Saturday, June 23rd, with registration at 1:00 PM and testing starting at 2:00 PM, at the MARC Center, 1100 MARC Drive(just off of Hwy. 107), Merrill, WI. This exam session is being held in conjunction with […]
THE WVRA READIES FOR ANOTHER EXCITING FIELD DAY The Wisconsin Valley Radio Association will be participating in the world’s largest on-air amateur radio event – Field Day, on Saturday, June 24th and Sunday 25th. Field Day brings hams from around the world together in a 24 hour scramble to meet as many of their radio brethren […]
Summer is FINALLY here! I hope you had a great holiday weekend and are excited for summer! The WVRA will be in full swing beginning in June – we have a lot of events planned so please mark your calendars: June 7th – general meeting June 25/26 – Field Day July 7-10 – Wausau Balloon […]
Despite a bit of adversity, the WVRA’s Field Day adventure was a success. This year’s event, held at Kennedy Park in Weston, had quite a few notable achievements, including: All logging computers were networked using the hamnet-broadband mesh network A educational activity on mesh networking technology Media attention by WAOW TV 9, and WXCO 1230 am […]
At the last WVRA club meeting Roger Branton K9RGB, the organizer of our great field day this year presented a video he made of the highlights of the good time we had. If you missed it or want to be able to watch this great video again, here it is in all its glory. Great […]