Subj : 2024 ARRL Field Day Wrap Up
To   : QST
From : ARRL de WD1CKS
Date : Fri Jun 28 2024 08:16 pm

 06/28/2024 

It was a successful 2024 ARRL Field Day, despite severe weather and extreme
temperatures impacting much of the country. Social media has hundreds of photos
and stories from the United States. By Wednesday morning, nearly 2200 log
entries had been received, with more arriving hourly. Just a reminder, the
deadline for entries is July 23, 2024. Check out the ARRL Field Day website[1]
for the latest updates and information.

ARRL member-volunteers on the Board of Directors, along with Section Managers
and other Field Organization staff fanned out to visit as many of the sites as
possible in their areas. We've collected some of their photos and reports from
the road on 2024 ARRL Field Day.

Kenzie Denton, KO4GLN, is the Assistant Section Manager for Youth in the ARRL
Virginia Section, and she is the 2023 winner of the Roanoke Division Service
Award, the Division's highest honor. A junior at Old Dominion University (ODU)
majoring in pre-med, she is president of the ODU Amateur Radio Club, and
undertakes many youth outreach initiatives. Her latest was a fox hunt aimed at
encouraging girls to participate by using the legacy of Amelia Earhart as
inspiration. The Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club (WAARC) is known for
having a high percentage of active YL members.

Denton and her mother, Nicole, handmade 62 pennants to memorialize Silent Key
members of the Williamsburg Area Amateur Radio Club (WAARC). The pennants were
strung on two lines which hung adjacent to the park shelter where the club was
operating category 3A. It took about 30 minutes to make each pennant, and the
collection will remain a fixture for future club events.

ARRL Treasurer John Sager, WJ7S, joined the Utah Valley Amateur Radio Club[2]
(UVARC) at their Field Day operation in Trout Creek, Utah. "I joined what was
supposed to be a three-man team of CW operators, John Mitton, KK7L, Ralph Nunn,
K7RLN, and me ... as a 3A station operating under the UVARC callsign of K7UVA,"
said Sager. "We were joined by Forrest Stephenson, KI7QCF, a fairly new CW
operator and POTA activator, who wanted to see our CW effort in action. We