THE WORLD RADIO TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP PREPARATIONS: G0MTN LEE’S REPORT
Lee preparing and testing for the Championship
During the July 2025 IARU HF Championship 5 WRTC stations were tested under field conditions.
We used the same planned equipment for the 2026 event as a trial – a 12m telescopic mast, small HF triband yagi, and dipoles for 40m and 80m.
The operating location was a cluster of sites within the grounds of the Euston Estate, Suffolk.
This was 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.
The weather was very hot which made the site build on the Thursday and Friday quite challenging. although it also became surprisingly chilly overnight on Saturday. We also tested the IT networking and our scoreboard system.
We had the callsigns GB0WR GB2WR GB5WR GB8WR GB9WR and made 9600 QSOs in the 24 hour period.
We learned a lot and it was a great (if tiring) experience meeting with our volunteer station builders and operators. There was also much positive feedback from the public as such as demonstration of real equipment from the agreed site locations helps to show we’re on track with our preparations for next year. The big challenge of course is scaling up from building 5 sites to 50, and looking after 100 international operators and 50 referees next year. Please visit https://www.wrtc2026.org/ for more details of WRTC overall, and this 2025 test run.
THEWORLD RADIO TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 8TH-13TH JULY 2026