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The Vlaamse Radio Amateurs (VRA) is organizing the Flemish Mill Contest on 19th July 2025.
The goal is to activate Flemish wind, water, rose, and horse mills to highlight Flemish heritage.
More information - https://www.vlaamsemolencontest.be/
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.
Read MoreThe 24th USA Radio Orienteering Championships were held 19-22 June 2025. The event was hosted by the Backwoods Orienteering Klub (BOK) at Morrow Mountain State Park in Albemarle, North Carolina, and drew about 30 athletes from across the United States and Canada. Radio orienteering is also known as amateur radio direction-finding, or ARDF.
There were four World Championship-style races: Foxoring, Sprint, 2m Classic and 80m Classic.
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