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2024 Highlights:

Thank you to all the people that made our event a great success!

Contesting was a focus this year (details below) thanks to our lead Trevor KG6MDW.

All eight license upgrade candidates passed their exams - congratulations!

Meshtastic will be demonstrated by Trevor KG6MDW

FT-8 and other digital methods will be demonstrated by Mike, W6MEW.

Amateur Television will be demonstrated by Jim, K6SOE, from the MDARC Communications Van.

Concord City Council Member Carlyn Obringer visited again.

An article is being prepared by David Scholz for the PioneerPress.com. Many people spoke with him about amateur radio, MDARC.org, Pacificon.org, the ARRL.org and Field Day.

The Diablo Gazette published Field Day in their Calendar of Events  6/24.

Messages promoting Field Day were posted to Facebook and LinkedIn.

Thanks again to John KM6ZJT for his demonstration of two-way telephone service on the AREDN MESH. (last year's pictures are below)

2023 pictures at Olympic High School follow including the MDARC Van and MDARC Trailer.

2024 pictures are in progress like from Mark K6MRG. Submissions for this website are appreciated.

Photos by: Pete KE6ZIW, David WA6UHA, Matthew N4DLA and Grant K6CBK

Field Day is one of the biggest events in North American amateur radio. It runs around the clock from start to finish on the fourth weekend of June every year. More than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups and friends to operate from remote locations.

Per the ARRL, the objective of Field Day is:

“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.” 

Volunteers are needed!!

Our Field Day chair, Larry Loomer, KI6LNB, and his crew will start setting up at 2:30 on Friday afternoon before the event, so come on down and help out, stay to work some bands and generally have a good time. Bring your RV, trailer camper or sleep in your car and stay overnight.  Basic food and drink will be provided.  We will have portable toilet facilities available.  If needed, a shopping center with a Safeway store and other food vendors, is six blocks away.

Contact Larry at KI6LNB@arrl.net to let us know what help you can provide.  Thank you.

Multiple volunteers are needed to supervise the food availability at the Field Day site:  Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, and the BBQ dinner, and Sunday breakfast.  We need to find a BBQ grill and a person to do the BBQ cooking. 

Remember: You don't need to have HF privileges, or even be a licensed ham, to make contacts at our Field Day site. We will have Band Captains on hand to act as control operators. So come on down, tell your friends and get involved in ham radio!

MDARC Bands:

• 2 Meters (144.100 MHz – 148.000 MHz) John N6RIO IC-7100

• 6 Meters (50.00 MHz – 54.000 MHz) John N6RIO IC-7100

• 10 Meters (28.000 MHz – 29.700 MHz) Trevor KG6MDW FT-991

• 15 Meters (21.000 MHz - 21.450 MHz) Ben KI6WBH IC-950/7000

• 20 Meters (14.000 MHz – 14.350 MHz) Mike M6MEW FT-991

• 40 Meters (7.000 MHz – 7.300 MHz) Jim K6SOE Elecraft K3S

• 80 Meters (3.500 MHz – 4.000 MHz) Trevor KG6MDW FT-991

• 160 Meters (1.600 MHz – 2.000 MHz) Trevor KG6MDW FT-991

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