June 28th, 2026

What started out as a overcast Saturday morning turned into a beautiful afternoon and evening as the WestCumb ARC participated in the annual ARRL / RAC Field Day Weekend June 27-28th 2026.
Set up started at noon hour and by 3pm we were ready to go. Our two stations in the ACS trailer started making contacts on both SSB and FT8.
We also had other stations set up working 6m FT8 (Rob VE1CA)  and Satellite contacts (John VE1CWJ).
Ron VE1BIC dropped by in the afternoon and did an media interview with Jim VE1JBL and later played it on CFTA 107.9 Community Radio. 
By 6pm everyone was ready for a barbecue with hamburgers, hotdogs and Sue VA1SIS  made us a nice plate of egg sandwiches.
As the evening went on the bands really opened up and many contacts were made.
Sunday morning the club started again shortly after 9am. It was a very sunny day.
We took a  break at 12 noon and finished up the hamburgers that were left over from the night before and went back to work and shut down at 3pm.
First of all, thanks to Borden Chapman VA1CBC who invited us to his home in Northport to hold the event. A beautiful location overlooking the Northumberland Strait. Unfortunately Borden could not take part as he found out he had  to be in St. John’s NL from June 25th- July 4th to mobilize the CCGS Louis St. Laurent for their Arctic mission from August 3rd- September 19th.
Thanks to all the members who participated over the weekend including Steve VE1OR, Garrett VA1OR, Rob VE1CA, John VE1CWJ, Mike VE1MWJ, Kevin VE1KEV, Frank VE1FSM, Mike VE1MY, Charlie VA3ZRZ, Terry VE1AS, Sue VA1SIS and myself Jim VE1JBL.

Drone footage thanks to Steve VE1OR.

Great looking crew.  I even see some of the old gang from the Tri-County Club.  Ron came in late after the photos working at CFTA so got a picture of him later.