{"id":49467,"date":"2026-07-31T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49467"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:37:41","slug":"rallies-and-events-news-2-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/rallies-and-events\/2026\/07\/31\/rallies-and-events-news-2-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rallies and Events News \u2013 2 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 2 August, Part 1 of the <strong>British Amateur Television Club Convention 2026<\/strong> is taking place at Midland Air Museum, Rowley Road, Coventry, CV3 4FR.<\/p>\n<p>The event is running from 10am to 4pm and includes show-and-tell, test-and-fix-it and bring-and-buy elements.<\/p>\n<p>There are comprehensive test facilities available for all bands from 144MHz to 24GHz. Non-members are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/events\/\">batc.org.uk\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also today, 2 August, the <strong>Broadcast Engineering Museum<\/strong> has an open day from 11am.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is located at 41 Capper Avenue, Hemswell Cliff, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire DN21 5XS. Itm is home to one of the largest collections of historic broadcasting equipment in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/becg.org.uk\/events\/\">becg.org.uk\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finningley Amateur Radio Society Rally<\/strong> is taking place today, 2 August, at the Hurst Communications Centre, Belton Road, Sandtoft, Doncaster, DN8 5SX.<\/p>\n<p>The doors are open from 10am. Entrance costs \u00a35 per person but under-16s will be admitted free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g0ghk.com\/\">g0ghk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kings Lynn Amateur Radio Club Rally<\/strong> is also taking place today, 2 August, at Gaywood Community Centre, Gayton Road, King\u2019s Lynn PE30 4EL.<\/p>\n<p>The doors open at 9am and the entrance fee is \u00a32.50.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email rally.klarc@gmail.com or call 0770 907 4951.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 9 August, <strong>Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society Hamfest<\/strong> will be taking place at Cobham Sports and Social Club Ground, Merley, near Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 3DA.<\/p>\n<p>The doors will be open from 9am to 3pm. Car boot and field traders are welcome from 7am.<\/p>\n<p>Admission costs \u00a35 and includes parking. Talk-in will be on 145.550MHz.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frars.co.uk\/\">frars.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 2 August, Part 1 of the British Amateur Television Club Convention 2026 is taking place at Midland Air Museum, Rowley Road, Coventry, CV3 4FR. The event is running from 10am to 4pm and includes show-and-tell, test-and-fix-it and bring-and-buy elements. There are comprehensive test facilities available for all bands from 144MHz to 24GHz. Non-members are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rallies-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49468,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49467\/revisions\/49468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}