The above photos are courtesy of the Peel Amateur Radio Club, the Ottawa Amateur Radio Club and the Ottawa Valley Amateur Radio Club and show Field Day activities in 2017 and 2018.
Field Day is held annually during the fourth full weekend in June. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday.
Sponsored by the ARRL and RAC, but organized primarily by the ARRL, Field Day is open to all Amateur Radio operators covered by these two International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) member organizations.
Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the United States and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June of each year, more than 31,000 Radio Amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or simply with friends to operate from remote locations.
Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practise for emergencies, an informal contest and, most of all, FUN! It is a time where many aspects of Amateur Radio come together to highlight our many roles.
Objective: To contact as many stations as possible on the 160-, 80-, 40-, 20-,15- and 10-Metre HF bands, as well as all bands 50 MHz and above, 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.
Each claimed contact must include contemporaneous direct initiation by the operator on both sides of the contact. Initiation of a contact may be either locally or by remote.
Don’t forget to share your Field Day stories with us!
We would love to hear about your Field Day activities and would be happy to consider them for publication in The Canadian Amateur magazine. Please send them to us by using our online “Members Stories” form or by sending it directly to .
For full Field Day rules and details, please visit the ARRL website. Have fun!