The Wisconsin Valley Radio Association is holding a joint Field Day exercise with the Merrill Amateur Radio Group on Sat, June 23rd through Sunday, June 24th. The event will take place at the Merrill MARC Center, 1100 MARC Drive in Merrill, just off of Highway 107. This is a high visibility location right next to […]
I want to thank everyone who came out and enjoyed this year Field Day with us. We had a great turn out – we met new faces (three new technicians tested at our VE session) and saw some faces we hadn’t heard from in quite a while. We operated as 4A and saw most contacts […]
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 […]
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 […]