Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to talk about Field Day 2017 with Ian Kahn, KM4IK!

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Field Day 2017

Dates

Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2017 is June 24-25.

If your club is not doing field day or you would just like to check out other field day locations, check out the ARRL’sÂ Field Day LocatorÂ to find other field day locations in your area.

Bands

Any Amateur Radio band except 12, 17, 30 and 60 Meters.

Rules, Entry Forms and Information Packets

Logging Software

Other topics that we talked about in this episode:

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