Winter Field Day Association

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The official Mastodon account for the WFDA. We're a nonprofit organization dedicated to hosting #WinterFIeldDay

This account is run primarily by Mike - KY4LV.

Websitehttps://winterfieldday.org
Discordhttps://discord.com/invite/nCNFGTjTZz
Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/winterfieldday
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/winterfieldday

There's a new blog post up with my initial thoughts on the feedback we collected from WFD 2026:

https://blog.winterfieldday.org/2026/03/wfd-2026-feedback.html

Your Feedback From WFD 2026

Log submissions are closed, and I'm going through the feedback forms you all filled out. There's a wealth of great stories, suggestions, cri...

WFD 2026 is in the books. With log submissions closed, we will process all the feedback we got and work on incorporating it into WFD 2027.

We offer a huge thanks to everyone who participated. Winter Field Day exists because of you!

If you still need to submit a log, you're fewer than 24 hours from the deadline. Please do so soonest at https://winterfieldday.org

Need help? Email us at [email protected]

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Hello everyone! You have fewer than ten days to submit your Winter Field Day 2026 log at https://winterfieldday.org. If you run into any issues with your submission, email [email protected] and we'll assist you.
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FT2: A Brand New Mode You Can’t Use for Winter Field Day

https://blog.winterfieldday.org/2026/02/ft2-no-wfd.html

FT2: A Brand New Mode You Can’t Use for Winter Field Day

There's a brand new mode that just hit the airwaves. It's based on FT8 and FT4. It's about four times as fast as FT8 with three times the ba...

Winter Field Day Is Now Held on the 4th Full Weekend in January

Some of you are undoubtedly saying to yourselves "What do you mean? That's when WFD has always been held!" It seems that way, but January usually has just four full weekends. We made this change to prevent Winter Field Day from falling on the occasional 5th full weekend.

As a result, Winter Field Day 2027 will be 23-24 January

https://blog.winterfieldday.org/2026/02/4th-full-jan-weekend.html

Winter Field Day Is Now Held on the 4th Full Weekend in January

Some of you are undoubtedly saying to yourselves "What do you mean? That's when WFD has always been held!" It seems that way, but January ...

Hey look, we have a blog now! We'll be putting important announcements, updates, and generally useful information there so people can refer to it without relying on our social media pages.

https://blog.winterfieldday.org/

Winter Field Blog

We're reevaluating the location portion of the Winter Field Day exchange. Please choose what you'd prefer in the exchange and explain why in a reply. Thank you!
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How can we make Winter Field Day better? Give us your opinions!

I've made an important edit to this open letter where I...encourage?...the United Nations Secretary-General to green light a mastodon.radio account for the historic entity 4U1UN in New York City.

@M0YNG has pledged onboarding support, e.g., to help get them established on the server, understand client software options, setting up an account, verification links, etc.).
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Here's the background and open letter: https://medium.com/@k3loe/open-letter-to-un-secretary-general-antónio-guterres-about-4u1un-a-most-wanted-entitys-history-62864468a830

This online community continues to impress. 😍

Open letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres about 4U1UN: A most wanted entity’s history

4U1UN should be a beacon again

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