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.

Please work as many GB#WR (GB0WR GB2WR GB5WR GB8WR GB9WR) callsigns as you can on 80m to 10m, SSB and CW during the IARU HF Championship on 12th and 13th July 2025. High activity from chasers will help provide great data to the WRTC 2026 entrants in their preparation to understand summertime HF propagation from the UK. All of the GBxWR logs will be made public after the IARU contest log submission deadline.

There will be a downloadable certificate available for those that contact our test stations. There will be different tiers achievable, and also a sprint award if anyone is able to contact all the stations on all band / mode slots. (Single mode option is available.)

WRTC 2026 - https://www.wrtc2026.org/wrtc-test-event-july-2025/