Upcoming Events for 2025

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® Kids Day runs January 4, 2025 from 1800 UTC - 2359 UTC. Operate as much or as little as you like.

The event is designed to give on-the-air experience to young people,  to foster interest in getting a license of their own, and give older  hams a chance to share their stations and love for amateur radio with  their children. You can share the excitement with your own kids,  grandkids, a Scout troop, a church, or the general public!

All participants are encouraged to post their story and thumbnail photos to the Kids Day Soapbox page. Tell the world about your operations, the fun you had, and the contacts you made! Remember, ARRL must have a completed release form in order to include youth photos (younger than 18 years of age) in ARRL publications. 

From: https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-kids-day-january-4-2025 

This will be our first meeting of 2025.  

At 17:00 (5:00 pm) Dinner at Applebees in Oxford.

At  18:30 Set up and testing of HF and  UHF/VHF radios

At 19:00  Monthly Meeting - combination of an in person meeting and Zoom meeting . If you aren't traveling to South Paris and want to participate, please make sure you have the Zoom invite from Wayne.

At 20:00 (8:00 pm)

1. Tenative 160m test from EMA to a Zoom participant
2. Test IC 7300 on 80m and 40m (see January agenda email for frequencies)
3. Test simultaneous operation of IC 756 and IC7300 on different bands
4.  ensure clear comms
5. eliminate interference between both HF stations

If  the in-person meeting is snowed out, we will use Zoom to cover the agenda portion of the meeting. On January 13 we will include the radio tests at the EMA at 19:00 (7:00 pm) before the regular weekly net.

• Meeting starts at 1100 and will go to 1300 or longer
• If you are interested in attending RSVP is required by 3 Jan - see Oxford ARES/CERT comm email
  The session will cover: 
• Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation, 
• digital modes (JS8Call,  VARA HF, VarAC, Winlink), 
• equipment requirements, and training.

On Air Net 7:30 pm (19:30) local time on the Oxford County Repeater system.

On Air Net 7:30 pm (19:30) local time on the Oxford County Repeater system. 

• 160 meter county wide radio test on 1.935 (plus or minus 5KC)

ARRL Winter Field day is always on the last full weekend of January, beginning at 19:00 UTC on Saturday and running though 18:59 on Sunday.

You can operate on the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter HF bands and all bands above 50 MHz.

To be considered for scoring, all participants must submit their log entries before 11:59 UTC on March 1st .  All logs must be submitted in the Cabrillo formation and contain the proper exchange data. Late entries cannot be accepted.

WFD participation and results are tallied and posted on the website for future reference. Winter Field Day team goal is to have logs scored by May 30th and posted the first week of June.

On Air Net 7:30 pm (19:30) local time on the Oxford County Repeater system.