Field Day 2026 – A huge success!
Field Day 2026 is in the books, and what a weekend it was!
I want to thank everyone who helped make it happen. The weather wasn’t perfect and neither were the bands, but a rough estimate already has us at 1,000 QSOs! A great result the whole club can be proud of.
That took a lot of hands. Thank you to the crews who loaded the trailer, raised the masts and antennas, and pitched the tents, and to everyone who stayed Sunday to tear it all back down and leave the site cleaner than we found it.
Thank you to our operators on CW, phone, and digital who kept all three stations running around the clock, and to the overnight crew who carried us through the quiet hours.
We also have something special to celebrate: our VE team ran a license exam session over the weekend, and two new hams earned their licenses on the spot. Please join me in welcoming them to the airwaves. There’s no better introduction to amateur radio than getting licensed at Field Day, and a huge thank you to our volunteer examiners for making it happen.
A special thanks, too, to everyone who welcomed newcomers and visitors at the GOTA station and helped someone make their very first contact — that’s the future of this hobby, and this weekend we grew it.
Thank you to the crew that kept us fed, and to the families and friends who came out for Saturday’s dinner; you make Field Day feel like the family event it should be.
Thanks as well to our safety team for keeping a watchful eye all weekend, and to the Township of Ocean and our local public-safety partners for the site and their support.
More importantly, we had a great time together as a club, sharpening our skills, testing our gear, and proving once again that GSARA can establish a capable emergency station anywhere, on any power, in any weather. That’s what Field Day is really about.
The team is now compiling the logs and preparing our submission to the ARRL. We typically hear results back in December, and I’ll pass them along the moment they’re posted. If you took photos over the weekend, please send them my way so I can compile an album. (rwholst@gmail.com)
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