Rallies and events

This listing is correct as of 23 June 2025.

To have your rally or event on this list, into RadCom and read out on GB2RS News, email full details AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE to radcom@rsgb.org.uk

29 Jun – Cornish Radio Amateur Club G4CRC Rally

Penair School, St. Clement, Truro, TR1 1TN.

Doors open 10.30am.

Contact: Ken, G0FIC on 01209 821073.

4, 5, 6 Jul – Saffron Walden Radio Ham / CB Club Rally

Lovecotes Farm, Chickney Road, Henham Village, Bishop’s Stortford, CM22 6BH.

This is a field day (set up your radios) and rally (tabletop sale) weekend over Friday 4 July, Saturday 5 July, and Sunday 6 July 2025 (Sunday will be the tabletop sale).

You can camp on the field from Friday to Sunday and have a table for a cost of £15.

For camping, turn up from 6pm onwards on Friday. When leaving on Sunday please be off the field by 3pm.

Just to have a table (Sunday only) is £10. Turn up from 8am onwards.

To set up your radio for the field day (Saturday only) is £5. Turn up from 8am onwards.

To look around the rally (Saturday only) is £2. Turn up from 9am onwards.

To book for camping or arrange tables email g8swr1.5@gmail.com

6 Jul – Barford Norfolk Radio Rally

Barford Village Hall and Green, Barford, Norwich, NR9 4AB.

Doors open at 9am for visitors. The event features trade stands, car boot sales, bring and buy, charity raffle, repeater groups, catering and free car parking.

Entry is £3 per person. Under 16s free of charge. Outside pitches are £8 – just arrive from 8am on the day. Inside hall tables £10 (must be pre-booked). Details from: norfolkamateurradio.org/barford-2025/ or David, G7URP radio@dcpmicro.com

6 Jul – BVWS Swapmeet and Auction

Members only.

Wootton Bassett Memorial Hall, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Wiltshire SN4 8EN.

Doors open at 9.30am. Stall-holder entry from 9am. Auction starts at approximately 12.30pm.

Admission £8.

Contact Mike Barker

From M4 Junction 16, take the Royal Wootton Bassett turning (A3102). Continue to follow the signs for Royal Wootton Bassett. Once in Royal Wootton Bassett (3 miles from J16) you come into main town area where there is a raised town hall (black and white building on stilts). At that point turn left into Station Road, (sign posted for Broad Town / Broad Hinton) and then the hall is 500 yards on your left, on the corner of a crossroads where you need to turn left into Tanners Close to access the car park.

For those using public transport, Royal Wootton Bassett is a 15-minute taxi drive from Swindon railway station.

CANCELLED 6 Jul – Newbury Radio Rally

Newbury Showground, next to junction 13 of M4 motorway in Berkshire, RG18 9QZ.

Contact: email: NewburyRally@nadars.org.uk , or web: nadars.org.uk

13 Jul – McMichael Radio & Electronics Rally and Car Boot Sale 2025

New venue: Oak Trees Event Field, Cocks Lane, Warfield, Bracknell, RG42 6JE.

Open: 9am to 3pm (traders 8am).

The McMichael Radio & Electronics Rally and Car Boot Sale is an established, popular and growing annual event for radio amateurs and electronics enthusiasts.

Being held in mid-summer, the weather is usually warm and dry, with great facilities, food and refreshments and ample free parking.

Entrance fees for 2025 are £4 per person and £15 per table for traders (includes admission for two people).

19 Jul – HFDXARC Radio Rally

Welwick Village Hall, North Lane Welwick, HU12 0SH.

10am to 3pm.

Visitor entrance is £3.

To book a table please contact Ernie, G4LUE on 07984191873 or email Rally@hfdxarc.com

20 Jul – Bury St Edmunds Radio Rally

Rougham Tower Museum, IP32 7QB. The doors open at 9.30am for visitors and 7am for traders. Refreshments are available from the museum’s cafeteria. Admission for visitors and car-booters costs £3.

£10 for traders.

The Rougham tower museum will be open on the day and entry is free, so why not make a day of it and visit both events.

For further information email secretary@bsears.co.uk

20 Jul – Lincoln Short Wave Club Summer Radio Rally

The Festival Hall, Caistor Road, Market Rasen, LN8 3HT

Admission £3. Doors open 10am. Indoor event ample free parking

Over 50 tables of traders and special interest groups. Tables £10

Hot refreshments including our famous bacon butties.

Card payments accepted

Contact Steve M5ZZZ via 07777699069 or email: m5zzz@outlook.com

27 Jul – Wiltshire Radio Rally

Kington Langley Village Hall, Church Road, Kington Langley, SN15 5NJ.

Doors open for traders at 7am and public at 9am.

Indoor tables can be pre-booked. Large field for car boot and parking.

Indoor tables £10. Outdoors, cars £10, vans £15.

Refreshments on site.

See chippenhamradio.club for further details. To book tables please contact Brian, G6HUI at g6huim3hui@gmail.com

3 Aug – BATC Convention for Amateur TV 2025 (CAT 25) Part 1

Midland Air Museum, Rowley Rd, Coventry, CV3 4FR.

CAT 25 will take place on Sunday 3 August as a meet-up, show and tell, test and fix-it, and bring and buy event from 10am to 4pm.

There will be full test facilities available for 5.6GHz/Portsdown/MiniTiouner/Ryde/power amplifiers/preamps.

3 Aug – Kings Lynn Amateur Radio Club 2025 Rally

Gaywood Community Centre, off Gayton Road, Kings Lynn, PE30 4EL, TF638203.

Amateur radio, electronics and computer equipment.

Doors open at 9am

Entrance fee: £2.50

Traders stalls, outdoors £8. Indoors £10.

To book email rally.klarc@gmail.com or call 0770 907 4951

www.klarc.org.uk

8 Aug – Cockenzie And Port Seaton Amateur Radio Club Annual Mini Rally and Junk Night

Port Seaton Community Centre, South Seaton Park, Port Seaton, EH32 OBG.

Public admission: 6pm to 8:30pm

10 Aug – Flight Refuelling ARS Hamfest

Cobham Sports and Social Club Ground, Merley, nr Wimborne, Dorset. BH21 3DA

9am to 4pm. Admission £5 (includes parking).

Talk-in on 145.550MHz. On-site catering and bar.

No dogs except guide dogs (landowner’s condition). Indoor and field pitches.

Car-boot traders welcome from 7am. Booking forms available on the FRARS website: frars.co.uk/hamfest

tbaker@tiscali.co.uk, 07743 475018

10 Aug – Rugby Amateur Transmitting Society (RATS) Annual Radio Rally

Princethorpe College, Princethorpe, Rugby, CV23 9PY.

17 Aug – Finningley ARS Rally

10am, DN8 5SX.

Full details are available at g0ghk.com

17 Aug – West Manchester Radio Club Red Rose Summer Rally

Mather Hall, Mather Lane, Leigh, WN7 2PJ. Doors open at 10am.

For further information and bookings, please contact: rally@wmrc.co.uk, orlesjackson@ntlworld.com, 07796 264569.

24 Aug – Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society Rally

Heron’s Lodge Guide Activity Centre, Bradwell Road, Loughton Lodge, Milton Keynes, MK8 9AA (opposite the National Badminton Centre – follow the brown shuttlecock signs) which has excellent modern facilities together with free on-site parking, catering and disabled facilities.

Entrance fee £3. Free parking. Open to the public from 9am.

For trader and exhibitor enquiries please email rally@mkars.org.uk

Outdoor pitches and indoor tables available. For more information see mkars.org.uk/mkrally

24 Aug – Torbay Amateur Radio Society Rally

Doors open 10am. Entry fee is £3.

Trade stands, catering, bring and buy.

Large level site with free parking.

25 Aug – HARS Radio Rally

HARS Radio Rally will be on August Bank Holiday Monday.

Please note important change to the venue. The new venue will be at the Ramsey Rural Museum, Wood Lane, Ramsey, PE27 2XD.

Further details can be found via https://hunts-hams.weebly.com/radio-rallies-2025.html

5, 6 Sep – National Hamfest 2025

George Stephenson Hall, Newark Showground, NG24 2NY.

For more information visit nationalhamfest.org.uk

14 Sep – Biggleswade Swapmeet (British Vintage Wireless Society – BVWS)

The Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, SG18 8JH.

Stallholders’ entry from 9am. General entry from 9.30am – £8. Hot and cold refreshments available all day.

Vintage technology of all sorts – radio, TV, communications, audio, vinyl, computing, telephones and components.

Lots of stalls full of vintage goodies and ephemera and a bring-and-buy stall run by the British Wireless and Television Museum.

All welcome. You can also join BVWS on the day if you want.

Information (including stall bookings) from Jeremy Owen, G8MLK, secretary@bvws.org.uk. More details at BVWS.org.uk

14 Sep – Caister Lifeboat Radio Rally

Caister Lifeboat station, Caister on Sea, NR30 5DJ. Entrance via carpark on Beach Road.

Raffle, on-site cafe, gift shop, museum.

Free entry, open 9am-2pm (8am for sellers).

Inside tables £10 each, outside £5 each.

Contact: Zane, M1BFI, m1bfi@outlook.com, 07711 214 790.

20 Sep – East Midlands Ham and Electronics Rally

Beckingham Village Hall, Southfield Lane, Beckingham (near Gainsborough), DN10 4FX.

Doors open 9.30am to 3pm.

Hot food and refreshments available.

Free car parking behind the hall, disabled parking near entrance.

Traders setup from 7am.

Well-behaved dogs on a lead at all times please.

More information and trader booking at emerg.uk/rally

5 Oct – 50^th Welsh Radio Rally

Run by Blackwood and District Amateur Radio Society, GW6GW.

At Llanwern High School, Hartridge Farm Road, Newport, NP18 2YE, South Wales.

Traders from 7am, public from 9.30am, raffle 12.30pm, admission £3.

Traders, RSGB Books, talks/lectures, bring and buy, refreshments,

Contact Michael Rackham, GW4JKV.

welshradiorally@gmail.com

Tel: 07976368250

10-12 Oct – RSGB 2025 Convention

Kents Hill Conference Centre, Milton Keynes.

The RSGB annual Convention is a fantastic opportunity for radio amateurs to meet, learn and share experiences.

Whether you want to discover something new, learn more about a particular aspect of amateur radio, or progress and develop your skills, you’ll find something at the Convention to explore and enjoy.

The prestigious event is taking place between 10 and 12 October 2025 at Kents Hill Conference Centre in Milton Keynes.

For more information and bookings visit rsgb.org/convention

12 Oct – Hornsea ARC Annual Rally

Driffield Showground. Details from Les, 2E0LBJ, 01377 252393.

25 Oct – Carrickfergus Amateur Radio Group Rally

Elim Church, North Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 8ND. Doors open at 11.30am (9.30am access for traders).

Usual traders, raffle prizes, bring and buy, food and refreshments available.

RSGB bookstall and QSL.

Disabled access. Free car park. For more information, please contact Tim, MI0TBL, carg@hotmail.co.uk.