So I found out this week that the Austin Amateur Radio Club is going to be hosting this year's #FieldDay at the Texas DPS Headquarters in Austin. Uh, what? If you want to be inclusive and inviting to anybody distantly interested in radio, setting up shop with the cops is NOT how you go about that. No.

Given that's only a mile from my house, I might attend, but would I really want to?

https://austinhams.org/arrl-field-day-2026-with-aarc-june-27-28/

#TxDPS #AARC #AustinTX

LICW's field day prep classes start on Monday June 1. These classes are held on Zoom and are free and open to the public. While these classes are focused on practical field day prep for operating in CW, they can also give you insight into what LICW classes are like, if you're curious.

The schedule and info about the classes can be found here:

https://longislandcwclub.org/2026fieldday/

#AmateurRadio #hamr #HamRadio #Morse #MorseCode #FieldDay

Field Day Prep is underway for Madison, WI and area. For more info https://w9jz.org/arrl-field-day-2026

#hamradio #hamradio2026 #fieldday #ARRLFieldDay

To help more hams enjoy CW on #FieldDay, LICW is offering 9 focused training and practice sessions each week in June, covering: the structure, rhythm, and flow of a Field Day CW contact, including listening, sending, the Field Day exchange, common abbreviations, recovery, and confidence-building in a real operating context.

* open to all amateur radio operators.

https://longislandcwclub.org/2026fieldday/
#ARRL #ARRLFD #HamRadio #AmateurRadio

It's only three months until ARRL/RAC Field Day. If you, like me, want to make sure you are prepared to run CW during Field Day, my fork of Morse Walker has Field Day support. Just fill in Section and Class and choose Field Day at the top and you can get some practice.

It's more realistic than the Morse Walker POTA simulation, because it varies the responses. You might hear "R", "RR", "QSL", or "X" before they send their class and section, and after their class and section you might hear "TU", "TNX", "GL", "73", or "72". (And either of those might be omitted since only class and section are required.) This should help the practice be a little more useful for tuning your ears than the POTA simulation which is always exactly "599 ST ST BK"

It's not meant to be accurate (e.g. Canadian calls don't map the call area to the section, and it doesn't implement asking for fills) but it is meant to be useful.

#MorseCode #HamRadio #FieldDay