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Pete GM4BYF at the grill at BBQ-2018

The LRS BBQ will be held at the QTH of Pete Bates GM4BYF & XYL Kay GM6KAY, on Wed 26th June.

(And the Wx forecast looks good - sunny)!

To allow preparations to be completed, please do not arrive before 7:30pm. 

The usual lavish spread of food will be provided and will be FREE this year, but remember to BYOBs - Bring Your Own Bottle(s)!

As we need to know the numbers attending for catering purposes, pse RSVP ASAP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

BBQ-2017 attendees in the sunroom at "Bates Motel".

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1. RADIO NEWS ITEMS (Click on for full info).

2019-06-16 1st Transatlantic 2m QSO: D41CV (Cape Verde Is) & FG8OJ (Guadeloupe) at 3867km on 144.174MHz by tropospheric ducting in FT8 mode. Later also KP4 & WP4G. Credit: GB2RS.

2019-06-30 SAQ Grimeton on 17.2kHz at 08:30 & 11:30 GMT. Click for info. (Live broadcast on SAQ YouTube Channel). Click for soundcard software.

2019-06-12 New LRS Committee elected at AGM

2019-07-20-21 GB0DAM special event station at Dumfries. Click for full details.

2019-05-04 Quatar OSCAR-100 lecture from RSGB AGM for download.

2. SILENT KEYS (Click item for full SK).

3. ITEMS FOR SALE  (Click item for details)

2019-05-17 Icom IC-7100 multiband Tcvr + HM-151 mic - £650 from Dave GM6KGZ.

2019-04-07 - UPDATED LIST from Norrie GM1CNH

2019-01-26 - Items Reduced by Dave GM6KGZ 

4. ITEMS WANTED 

5. NEW ON LRS WEBSITE

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The Annual General Meeting of the Lothians Radio Society was held at the Braid Hills Hotel on Wednesday 12th June 2019.

The President, Brian Flynn GM8BJF presented his Annual Review, noting that it had been another successful year for the club and thanking the committee for their good work..

Hon. Treasurer Peter Dick GM4DTH presented the Financial Review, showing a surplus for the year of £349 due to an increase in donations and surplus equipment sale profits, in spite of a modest drop in membership. It was agreed the subscription would remain at £20, or £10 for full-time scholars.

The new committee was elected:

President:        Alan Masson GM3PSP

                         Also: Webmaster

Hon Secretary: Andy Sinclair MM0FMF

Hon Treasurer: Peter Dick GM4DTH

Committee:     

   James Gentles GM4WZP (Program Manager)

   Pete Bates GM4BYF (Charitable Status & Contests

                                             Manager)

   Colin Murray GM4EAU

The new President, Alan GM3PSP encouraged all members to provide input to the Program Manager on ideas for interesting talks for the coming year, the core of the club's activity. 

Click for Committee page for photos of the new committee.

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André after MoC lecture on 11th May 2019.

We were saddened to learn of the passing of LRS member, André Saunders GM3VLB of Kelso, on 23rd May 2019. Click for Southern Reporter obituary.     Click for RSGB website Silent Key.   Click for Full Silent Key on this website.

André organized SCOTIA - Scottish Islands Award and had operated from almost all of the islands himself.

André's funeral was held on Thurs 6th June at the Borders Crematorium near Melrose, with a reception afterwards at the Cross Keys Hotel, Kelso. Many amateurs from the LRS and the Borders were present.

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Photo courtesy WoSARS

Congratulations to LRS Past-President Andy Sinclair MM0FMF (L) for jointly winning the RSGB Jock Kyle Trophy with Jack Hood GM4COX (R) of the West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society. This trophy is awarded to the Scottish club, society or RSGB member thought to have done the most in Scotland in the field of VHF, in this case for 13cm operations. Andy adds: "and recognition for trying to keep people using the bands which are under threat is what matters".

See write-up on WoSARS website (click).

The trophy was presented on 6th April 2019 at the GMDX Convention at Bannockburn by GMDX Chairman Rob Ferguson GM3YTS (C).

 

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Some of the starters.

The annual LRS Direction-Finding Contest (D/F Hunt) took place on 22nd May 2019, starting from the Tardis on Braid Hills Road.

The fox station GM3HAM/P was operated by Peter GM4DTH from a location on Wester Craiglockhart Hill.

Results: 1st: Melvyn GM4HYR in 1h 2m (not again!); 2nd: Mike GM8KCS in 1h 43m; non-finishers: Pete GM4BYF, James GM4WZP, Brian GM8BJF. Also a number of helpers including French visitor Sebastien - bienvenu!

After the Hunt, the participants adjourned to "Wee Bennet's" Bar at Morningside Station for the traditional diet lemonades.

Pete GM4BYF taking his first bearing, supported by XYL Kay GM6KAY and David GM3YMX.

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On 8th May, James Gentles GM4WZP hosted a meeting titled: “WHAT I BROUGHT TONIGHT”, an evening where members and visitors brought along "the smallest radio-related object they have, with the biggest story" and made a short presentation about it.  

 

We were very pleased to have a visiting amateur from the USA - Tom Novey W7TAN from Illinois - who was persuaded to act as the judge of the entries. The winner was Alan Masson GM3PSP who brought a plaque for NFD 1961 which was held at George Watson's College. The plaque was signed by all who participated, including himself.  

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At the meeting of the LRS on 27th March 2019 Prof Win Rampen, the Chair of Energy Storage at Edinburgh University and the former MD of Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd, talked about Energy Storage. He wrote:

"For the past 100 years or so, the world has been misusing fossil fuels from the Carboniferous period about 300 million years ago by digging them up and burning them. We have been using them at a rate of 1 million years to 1 year, which is scary. What we should be doing is using the sun's energy in the year that it is provided to us, and we have a long way to go to achieve that.

So the talk will be about renewables in general but more specifically about solving the mismatch between the uncontrolled delivery of power and the equally uncontrolled user demand. I shall be talking about how we can integrate renewable energy into the grid to displace fossil fuels - which Is where energy storage comes in!"

Click for Full Report with link to youtube video.

  1. 5 May 2019 - UHF / Microwave Contest - Lauder Common
  2. 24 April 2019 - 'Writing in Iron' - Magnetic Sound Recording - Terry Martini-Yates
  3. 10th April 2019 - LRS Spring Surplus Equipment Sale - St Fillan's Church, Buckstone
  4. 13th Feb 2019 - Munros on the Air - James Gentles GM4WZP