Celebrating 70 years of GB2RS with New Awards

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The RSGB’s weekly news broadcast, GB2RS, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the Society is inviting you to collect awards for listening and logging GB2RS News broadcasts between Friday 1 August and Tuesday 30 September 2025. There are four categories, including a basic listener award and a regular listener award.

Full details of the programme, the rules and how to apply for your certificate are available by searching GB70RS at http://www.qrz.com 

To read about the awards and wider celebrations that are taking place for the 70th anniversary of GB2RS, go to http://www.rsgb.org/gb70rs

Testing for WRTC 2026 in Suffolk

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Testing for WRTC 2026 in Suffolk

For the July 2025 IARU HF Championship 5 WRTC stations will be tested under field conditions, using the same planned equipment for the 2026 event as a trial. The operating location will be a cluster of sites within the grounds of the Euston Estate, Suffolk, England. 

This will be a test of erecting the masts and antennas with some of our volunteers, ahead of training the full team of volunteers over the next year. We will also be testing the IT networking and our scoreboard system, with additional load testing in parallel to the on-air stations. The scoreboard will not be publicly accessible this year.

The operators of the test sites know they are not eligible to take part as entrants in WRTC 2026 next year. They will be following WRTC rules with DXCC and IARU member society HQ stations per band as multipliers. A report sharing details of how everything went after the contest will be available.

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