GB2RS News Sunday the 3rd of August 2025 The news headlines: Call for G5RP Trophy nominations Get involved with the RSGB National Radio Centre’s Spy Transmitter activities this summer The QSL Bureau has announced an update to the G4M to S series card collection The G5RP Trophy is an annual award to encourage newcomers to HF DXing. The award is not limited to youngsters or the newly licensed but is open to anyone who has recently discovered and made significant progress in HF DXing. If you are an established HF DXer and want to recommend someone to be awarded the G5RP Trophy for 2025, now is the time to send in your nomination. Your nominee should be an up-and-coming HF DXer who has made rapid progress in the last year and has some real achievements to show. For example, they have a good total of new countries worked or some serious HF DXpedition activity. Please email your nominations to Ian Greenshields, G4FSU, via hf.manager@rsgb.org.uk to arrive no later than Friday, the 12th of September. The RSGB’s National Radio Centre has confirmed that the first of its Summer Spy Transmitter events is taking place on Tuesday, the 5th of August. This family-friendly activity will turn you into spy hunters as you explore Bletchley Park looking for hidden transmitters. The event starts at 10.30 am and spaces are limited to 12 groups. If you are unable to make this date, two further events have been confirmed on the 14th and the 20th of August. Full details of the activity are available via the ‘What’s on’ section of the Bletchley Park website via bletchleypark.org.uk  Do you have a callsign in the G4M to S series? If so, the QSL Bureau has announced a change to your card collection group. All cards and envelopes are being transferred to the current G4T to Z manager, Peter, G4XEX to form a new enlarged G4M to Z group. The current manager, Cliff, G4MAR, has retired, and the Bureau thanks him for his service to members. Details of QSL sub-managers and addresses can be found via rsgb.org/qsl  and selecting ‘List of QSL sub-managers' from the right-hand menu. RSGB volunteers will be running Morse activities and operating using DMR at the West Sussex International Jamboree on Thursday, the 7th, and Friday, the 8th of August. Listen out for youngsters operating as GB0WSJ using DMR on RSGB Youth Talk Group 23554, Worldwide Talk Group 91 and UK Call Talk Group 2350. They’d appreciate a call between 9.30 am and 5 pm on Thursday and 9.30 am and 12 pm on Friday. The July 2025 edition of RadCom Basics is now available. RadCom Basics is aimed at new amateurs and those who wish to refresh their skills and knowledge. Among others, this edition contains articles to help you learn about spectrum analysers, Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation and using a doublet as a multi-band antenna. To access all RadCom publications, visit rsgb.org/radcom HamSCI – The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation – is preparing for a series of upcoming meteor scatter experiments. Operating will take place during two well-known meteor showers: The Perseids on the 12th and 13th of August and the Geminids on the 12th and 13th of December. The aim is to collect data during meteor scatter events using the 10 and 6m bands. For more information visit hamsci.org/msqp Please send details of all your news and events to radcom@rsgb.org.uk. The deadline for submissions is 10 am on Thursdays before the Sunday broadcast each week.  And now for details of rallies and events Part 1 of the BATC Convention for Amateur TV 2025 is taking place today, the 3rd, at Midland Air Museum in Coventry. The doors are open from 10 am to 4 pm. The Convention includes show and tell, test and fix-it, and bring and buy. Kings Lynn Amateur Radio Club Rally is also taking place today, the 3rd, at Gaywood Community Centre, PE30 4EL. The doors are open from 9 am and the entrance fee is £2.50. For more information, email rally.klarc@gmail.com or call 07709 074 951. Cockenzie And Port Seaton Am