Winter Field Day 2026
Winter Field Day (WFD) 2026 was the second Winter Field Day for the Pinecone Amateur Radio Club (PARC); the club having formed shortly before the event in 2025. In 2025, Brantley K4CBW and John K4EB operated together from a rented cabin at Morrow Mountain State Park in Western North Carolina. We decided not to duplicate that effort in 2026 because, under John’s leadership, the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society was supporting an ARISS contact between a local school and an astronaut on the International Space Station that week. John, Brantley, and Carl were all involved in that effort and therefore didn’t have the time or energy to travel far for a WFD event the same week as the ARISS activation.