WARA

01/18/2026

07/03/2025

The Woodmont Amateur Radio Association 2025 Field Day operation was a huge success.

06/22/2025

Ham radio operators from the Woodmont Amateur Radio Association (WARA) in Milford, Connecticut will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise Saturday, June 28 until Sunday, June 29.

The event is ARRL Field Day (www.arrl.org/field-day), an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL. The National Association for Amateur Radio in the United States.

The public is invited to the club’s ARRL Field Day Open House on Saturday, June 28 from 3-6 p.m. and Sunday, June 28 from 10 a.m.-noon at the Woodmont Borough Hall, 128 Kings Highway, Milford to view amateur radio in action.

Club members will transmit on from the Woodmont Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on the Hall’s 1st floor, from portable stations and the WARA club trailer set up on the grounds using the club call W1WDT.

Hams from across North America ordinarily participate in Field Day by establishing temporary ham radio stations in public locations to demonstrate their skill and service. Their use of radio signals, which reach beyond borders, bring people together while providing essential communication in the service of communities. Field Day highlights ham radio’s ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and create an independent, wireless communications network.

During Field Day 2024, more than 31,000 hams participated from thousands of locations across North America. According to ARRL, there are more than 750,000 amateur radio licensees in the US, and an estimated 3 million worldwide. Among the tenets of the Amateur Radio Service is developing and practicing skills in radio
technology and radio communications and even contributing to international goodwill. Hams range in age from as young as 9 to older than 100. For more information about ARRL Field Day and ham radio, contact WARA’s Public Information Officer (PIO) at [email protected] check out the club’s website at www.wara.club and visit www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio.

02/13/2024

I’ve never seen a radio setup like this. Too bad the videographer missed the flyby.

01/05/2024

What a great program at this High School. I think my career would have taken a very different direction had there been programs like this in my High School.

Harry Smith from NBC's TODAY Show tells the story of teenage ham radio operators who made a successful contact with the International Space Station. Clip use...

11/07/2023

Mile 16 crew for the New York Marathon 2023..

08/20/2023

WARA was at the Milford Oyster Festival..Thanks Ralph for being the photographer!

08/11/2023

On Wednesday night the club hosted its first MacGyver night. Club members were given a task and asked to solve it with simple tools and pieces of random materials. This challenge was to construct a 2m antenna for a HT.

07/28/2023

Come on down to Woodmont Day and see our communications trailer in action. Saturday 8 am to 3 pm. Our mugs will be available to help fund our projects and equipment purchases.

06/24/2023

Field Day 2023 from 125 feet

06/17/2023

The Woodmont Amateur Radio Association will be once again participating in the AARL Field Day exercises on June 24 and 25 at Trubee Park in Milford. The public is invited down to have first hand experience with Amateur Radio and what is all about. Public hours are from 2pm till 6pm on Saturday.