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Field Day 2026

DARA Field Day 2026 — Join Us at the Dayton VA Center! We’re excited to announce that the details for DARA Field Day 2026 have been finalized! Join us for a great day of amateur radio operating in collaboration with our friends at the Dayton VA Radio Club (W8DVA). Event Details Getting There The site […]

websdr.org

If you haven’t tried SDR radio or never heard of it you need to go to this website and enjoy SDR radio.  Pick a band and listen…  Click here

Thursday Night Group

Evert Thursday Night … DARA Clubhouse, 6619 Bellefontaine Rd. Dayton, OH 45424.  There is no presentation this week. If anyone wants to or knows someone who might want to give a presentation at a future TNG or if you have a topic that you would like to see, please let me know. Everyone is invited!!! […]

License Exams …

If you are interested in taking the FCC Ham Radio Operators license exam take a look at Licensing/Classes -> Exams

Public Serivice Events

Public Service Events We give back to the community by helping out with public service events, such as Holiday at Home, 5K runs/walks, and many other events throughout the year. When needed, we take our communication van out to location as a command post to relay information.  Most of the time this is health and […]

Contesting

DARA Contesting We participate in several contests throughout the year at the W8BI club house. We have earned several awards in the past few years.  If you would like to participate in any of the ARRL/CQ contests, please contact one of our contest committee members.  We always need more operators working the radios, logging, keeping […]

Club House

The DARA Club House. Since the inception of the club, we held most of our membership meetings at several locations. From the early days, we met at the Dayton Engineers Club for several years. Then we moved to Srepco, which we stayed at for several more years. We never had a place that we could […]