Speaker Topic for this Month:
“W6TRW Field Day 2025″
Mark KD7DTS & Field Day Team
W6TRW will be doing something different and even more fun for Field Day this year! We will be operating from Campo Alto campground, a drive-up campground on the summit of Cerro Noroeste, elevation 8,200 feet. Distance from Los Angeles is about 100 miles.
Mark and the Field Day team will talk about their plan for the event, arrival and setup times, band captains and key roles, operating & camping logistics, … and how YOU can participate!
When: Friday-Sunday June 27 – 29, 2025
Where: Camp Alto Campground
Event Schedule: Club Set-Up starts Saturday 27 June 2025
Weekend of 27-29 June 2025
Want to participate? RSVP to Mark Knight, kd7dts@arrl.net
ARRL Field Day is a radio communications event that brings together amateur radio operators (also called “hams”) within your community. The W6TRW Amateur Radio Club will set up their antennas and emergency communications equipment for the annual drill to prepare for volunteer emergency and disaster response. The theme for 2025 Field Day is “Radio Connects” – highlighting the many ways that wireless technology connects people across distances near and far.
Our 2025 W6TRW event is a smorgasbord of fun – campout, picnic, informal contest (which we’re gonna win… again!), and SOTA/POTA activation opportunity. You won’t want to miss this party!
Greg Shreve, KE6YEX
Greg has been the Field Day Chair for many years and caretaker of our club legacy. He has also been Field Day Co-chair for the past two years, alongside the band captains, radio operators, and co-chairs for all the other Field Day activities, the people who have really made Field Day a success, year after year. Greg is also a past president of the W6TRW Amateur Radio Club.
Mark Knight, KD7DTS
Mark was originally licensed in the late 1990s. After moving to California, he started volunteering as a forest ranger with the San Gorgonio Wilderness Association (SGWA). Part of being a ranger is keeping in radio contact with the Forest Service to respond to emergencies. He modified his original Yaesu FT50R, to get back on the air while in the mountains – and he discovered an amazing SOTA and POTA community. All Mark’s operations are QRP from a backpack or a bicycle, powered exclusively by batteries and coffee. Mark is currently the W6TRW Amateur Radio Club Secretary, and he has been a key role in engineering W6TRW Field Days since 2023.
When: Tuesday, June 10th at 5:30 PM
Where: Northrop Grumman S-Cafe and Virtual Meeting on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82794654895
Meeting ID: 827 9465 4895
Phone dial-in: 1 669 900 6833
