Free Family Event! Benicia Amateur Radio Club Annual Field Day: Saturday, June 25, 2022

2022 Field Day ended early, but it was a great day!

The Benicia Amateur Radio Club (BARC) invites the public to its fun & free annual ARRL Field Day, an amateur radio public awareness event, from 11 am to 8pm, Saturday, June 25, 2022.

Amateur radio operators or “hams” will be demonstrating radios and using a variety of electronic equipment to practice communications techniques, contacting other ham stations across North America and beyond as a disaster preparedness exercise.

At this exciting event the public will be given the opportunity use actual radios! Bring the kids, family and friends and talk to each other and to the world!

There will be various radios, solar panels & batteries, antennas from a simple wire to tall & complicated ones, even digital communication from laptops or tablets to radios!

In a real emergency, phones, power, and cell towers may be down and hams are there to help communication.

This year Field Day takes place at the Benicia Train Depot, 90 1^st St. Benicia CA, 94510.

All that are interesting are welcome! Bring the whole family! Bring your friends!

Hope to see you there!

Previous Field Days shown above.