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The numbers for 2025 ARRL Field Day continue to grow. As of today, July 10, 3227 entries have been received and each day the list gets bigger, according to ARRL Contest Program Manager Paul Bourque, N1SFE. \u201cGet those entries in!\u201d he encouraged. The deadline is July 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a big year for ARRL Field Day on social media. 260 public posts across several platforms used the hashtag #ARRLFD. That doesn\u2019t even cover posts in groups or on private pages. The public posts alone reached 3.5 million viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was also significant growth in news media coverage of 2025 ARRL Field Day. Using ARRL\u2019s media monitoring suite, staff was able to track that amateur radio public information volunteers generated $37.5M in ad value equivalence (AVE) year-to-date around ARRL Field Day alone. That\u2019s a metric that tracks the amount of money that would have to be spent to buy advertisements that get the same number of viewers that news stories or \u201cearned media\u201d did.<\/p>\n
That’s up from $18M in 2023 and $20M in 2024. There were 1,810 media mentions of ARRL Field Day year-to-date, a 70% increase from 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hearing from clubs that were featured in coverage that people have been calling and wanting to get into amateur radio,\u201d said ARRL Public Relations and Outreach Manager Sierra Harrop, W5DX. \u201cIt shows that the outreach value of ARRL Field Day is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n