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22 May 2019 - LRS Direction -Finding Contest (D/F Hunt)
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James GM4WZP operating in last year's D/F Hunt
The annual LRS Direction-Finding Contest (D/F Hunt) will take place on Wednesday 22nd May 2019, starting at 7:30 prompt, at a location not far from the Braid Hills Hotel, on Braid Hills Road at the junctions with Braid Hills Ave, Braid Hills Approach and Braid Mount (NT-246698). Look for the Tardis!
The fox station GM3HAM/P, operated by Peter GM4DTH, will be transmitting on 1.875 MHz AM with tone for 5 minutes "on" and 5 minutes "off" until 9:30 pm when the Fox location and the refreshment location will be announced.
16 May 2019: Congratulations to Andy MM0FMF for winning the RSGB Jock Kyle Trophy
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- Written by Alan GM3PSP
Photo courtesy Nigel G3TXF, GMDX & RadCom.
Congratulations to LRS Past-President Andy Sinclair MM0FMF (L) for jointly winning the RSGB Jock Kyle Trophy with Jack Hood GM4COX (R). 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".
The trophy was presented on 6th April 2019 at the GMDX Convention at Bannockburn by GMDX Chairman Rob Ferguson GM3YTS (C).
8 May 2019 - 'What I Brought Tonight' - coordinated by James Gentles GM4WZP
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On 8th May, James Gentles GM4WZP hosted a meeting with the title: “WHAT I BROUGHT TONIGHT”, an evening where members and visitors brought along "the smallest radio-related object they have, with the biggest story" and make 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 and was signed by all who participated, including himself.
RADIO NEWS, SILENT KEYS & SALE / WANTED ITEMS
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Archived as News or Silent Keys in LRS Archive
1. RADIO NEWS ITEMS (Click on for full info).
2019-07-20-21 GM0DAM 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).
GM4XZN John MacDonald of Currie, of LRS & RAYNET, died on 23th April 2019. Funeral for John and his son John "Mac" (who died a few days earlier) on Sat 25th May 2019, 10:00am at Mortonhall Crematorium. Scotsman obituary.
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
5 May 2019 - UHF / Microwave Contest - Lauder Common
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- Written by Alan GM3PSP
Norrie GM1CNH and Peter GM4DTH operated on 70cm in the RSGB UHF / Microwave contest on Sunday 5th May (only) from an elevated site on Lauder Common, a few miles west of Lauder in the Scottish Borders. Conditions were probably about average but activity was very low. QSOs were made with East Anglia and one German station was heard on CW.
Norrie operating the rig from inside his car:
IC-706 Mk!!g, Gemini 70-1K 400W, 25 ele yagi @ 6m.
Visitors were Bob MM0XRI (R), and Alan GM3PSP + Clyde GM3PSP/K9 (not in photo).
27th March 2019 - Energy Storage - Prof. Win Rampen
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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!"
24 April 2019 - 'Writing in Iron' - Magnetic Sound Recording - Terry Martini-Yates
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- Written by Alan GM3PSP
At the meeting on 24th April 2019 Terry Martini-Yates of Ferrograph World, based in Rosyth, talked about "Writing in Iron" - magnetic sound recording - demonstrating several recorders and playing a number of historical recordings, including John Clarricoats G6CL during a visit to Edinburgh in 1961.
Terry writes: "A potted history of the development of the magnetic audio recorder from Valdemar Poulson’s invention of the magnetic wire recorder, the steel tape based Blattenerphone, its further development at AEG in Germany and its use by the 3rd Reich in Nazi Germany for war propaganda, to the overnight sensation it created in post-war America, when an enterprising soldier liberated two of the secret German Magnetophon reel to reel tape machines and 50 reels of recording tape.
Terry is the author of 'Built Like a Battleship!, A History of the Ferrograph Company'.
See also his website Ferrograph World (click)
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10th April 2019 - LRS Spring Surplus Equipment Sale - St Fillan's Church, Buckstone
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- Written by Alan GM3PSP
The LRS Spring Surplus Equipment Sale was held on 10th April 2019 at St. Fillan's Church, Buckstone. This sale included the remainder of the many Silent Key items from John Buchanan GM8BYF-SK.
After the sale there was a raffle for non-vacuum 'bottles' run by LRS treasurer, Peter Dick GM4DTH.
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