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Operating at night,
Field Day 2010. Photo by Jutti Marsh.
June 27, 2026: ARRL Field Day
This is a recurring event: 4th weekend, in Jun
The goal of Field Day is to practice operating in less-than-optimal conditions. It's the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the U.S. and Canada. On the fourth full weekend of June each year, more than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups, or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
Field day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies, and an informal contest, But most of all, it is FUN.
Field Day 2025: Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29 (also, see below if you can help with setting up). We are partnering with the South Pasadena Amateur Radio Club (southpasradio.org), JPL Amateur Radio Club (jplarc.org), and Caltech Amateur Radio Clunb (cco.caltech.edu/~w6ue) to operate during this year’s Field Day in the parking lot of the Art Center College of Design’s Hillside Campus, which is entered from 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena. It’s a privilege to use this excellent field location. We are grateful to the Art Center for the opportunity.
Operations will be for a 24-hour period, from 11 a.m. Saturday the 28th to 11 a.m. on Sunday the 29th. We plan to have two main HF stations operating continuously, with SSB on the PRC antenna and with CW and digital on the spiderbeam antenna. Additionally, there will be a UHF/VHF station. Click here to access the Google Docs sign-up sheet for the HF stations. Please sign up for 2 hours at a time if you are available.
Throughout the FIeld Day operations we will be using a special event call sign, N6P, and we'll be operating as a "4A" station.
For newcomers who would like to try using ham radio for the first time, or for currently inactive hams, or for newly licensed hams, there will be a "Get On The Air" (GOTA) station W6SPR operating on Saturday the 28th from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. So please come along and try your hand at operating! We especially invite young people to come along and participate in the fun.
WE NEED HELPERS FOR SETTING UP: Interested PRC, SPARC, JPLARC, and CITARC members are invited to join us for station setting up — Friday, June 27, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. and Saturday morning, June 28, from 8:00 a.m. We must be ready for the beginning of Field Day operations at 11:00 a.m. Saturday. On Firday evening, for example, we will need help to begin setting up the hardware, the trailer, and the antennas. We plan a first phase setup and SWR tests. We will check out the position of stations, cables, generators, etc. Then it all comes together Saturday morning. PLEASE COME HELP US WITH SETTING UP. It's a great way to work with fellow club members and to HAVE FUN.
OTHER HELP NEEDED: We need an additional quiet generator to have on standby as a backup. We are also looking for volunteers who can contribute an EZ up shade, tables, or chairs.
If you have questions, please contact Mark Seigel or Carol Bruegge at this email address: fd@w6ka.net
A national event: For further detail about Field Day as a national event, see the ARRL Field Day web page.
Field Day is a grand opportunity for amateur radio operators to come together and make as many contacts as possible under remote conditions.