ARRL Field Day 2025 is now in the history books. The Red River Radio Amateurs once again activated their club callsign—W0ILO—as a Class 3A1 station from the Cass County Highway Department in West Fargo, ND.
We had 22 visitors and operators on our sign-in sheet at the end of the event, including some who were visiting us for the first time to see what ham radio was all about.
2025 ARRL Field Day is just three weeks away! The excitement is building. Most clubs have their activations planned. In the last two weeks, 350 more sites have been added to the Field Day Site Locator, with a total of 886 listed as of June 5. ARRL Field Day is a great way to connect with your local amateur radio community, for Technician-class operators to get on lower HF bands, to shake down your portable operating gear, and to have fun and enjoy the camaraderie of your fellow hams.
2025 ARRL Field Day will be here before you know it! We’re just 7 weeks away from ham radio’s biggest event, held each year on the 4th full weekend of June (28 – 29 for 2025). The theme of “Radio Connects” highlights the many ways amateur radio makes connections.
On March 14, 2025, ARRL News announced the 2025 ARRL Field Day Theme: Radio Connects
Along with his usual Field Day antenna supplies, Dale WB6BYU brings along a handy table of wire lengths for each band for the antennas he is most likely to put up. This reference guide eliminates the need to calculate wire lengths in the field and can be easily shared with other operators who need to build an antenna.
W6BYU has published a version of his Field Day antenna length table at the Practical Antennas website
