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New LRS President Dr. John Cooke GM8OTI presented his President's Address "Home-brew /P"  on Wednesday, 8th September at the Braid Hills Hotel.

John's main interests in Amateur Radio are VHF and up, simple "home-brew" radio equipment, and portable operation. He talked about some of his recent projects, including linear amplifiers, antennas, and a 23cm transverter. He illustrated his talk by bringing along the results of some of these projects. For a more complete report, go to Meeting Reports.

 

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The Lothians Radio Society had a promotional table at this event with the new GM3HAM banner on display and staffed by LRS President John GM8OTI. A number of positive enquiries about LRS membership were received. At least 12 LRS members attended.

An album of photographs has been posted under Society Activities.

 

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L-R: Stuart MM3TZP (operator) and SWL MIchael (logger) did a great job on 2 metres.

 

VIEW MORE PHOTOS OF THIS EVENT BY GM4DIJ & GM3PSP IN 'SOCIETY ACTIVITIES'. 

 

Using the LRS club callsign GM3HAM/P a small but dedicated group of members of the Lothians Radio Society took part in VHF NFD from our usual site in the hills near Gatehouse of Fleet on the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway on July 3-4. Operation was on 6m, 2m and 70cm. The operators were Mike GM4IGS, Alan GM3PSP, Robin GM4YPL, Colin GM4HWO, Pete GM4BYF, Brian GM8BJF, Stuart MM3TZP, Brian GM4DIJ and SWL MIchael.
On the Saturday there were excellent Es conditions into Europe on 6m. Unfortunately disaster struck at breakfast time on the Sunday morning when a violent squall brought down the 6m beam and the main operations tent, causing our event to be abandoned at that point. It is rumoured that one member had to drive home in his PJs and another was swearing to buy waterproof trousers asap!

 

RESULTS - FINAL:

BAND   QSOs   POINTS   Best DX   Dist. km   LOC  

  50       125   104,095      5B4AIF        3584      KM64

144       147     45,046      ON65EM       715      JO20

432         39     11,440       PA6NL          635      JO21

TOTAL  311   160,581 

 

 

The wrecked 6m 9-element beam on Sunday morning. (Photo: GM4DIJ)

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9 June 2010

Annual General Meeting 2010

The Annual General Meeting of the Lothians Radio Society was held in the Braid Hills Hotel, 134 Braid Road, Edinburgh EH10 6JD on Wednesday 9th June 2010. The following Committee members were elected (for all photographs, go to the Committee page on this website):

President:     Dr. John Cooke GM8OTI

Secretary:     Andy Sinclair GM7HUD

Treasurer:     Peter Dick GM4DTH

Committee:   Jack Smith GM1CQC

                   Dr. Alan Masson GM3PSP

                   Colin Wright GM4HWO

The members present at the AGM voted to increase the annual subscription to £18 for members and £9 for scholars to help cover the costs of our excellent new venue at the Braid Hills Hotel.

It was agreed that efforts should be made to increase membership. These will include publicity using the new LRS brochure, to be distributed at rallies and local organizations, and the use of the LRS website to show photographs of recent meetings and events. 

Many suggestions were made for meeting topics which will assist the new committee when it meets shortly to plan the program for the new club year starting in September.   

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The GB3FF Repeater, located at Kelty in Fife, IO86gc, has been operational again since 3 April 2010, courtesy of the Central Scotland FM Group. It operates on RV48 (145.600 MHz / -600 kHz shift) with CTCSS tone 103.5 Hz. Coverage includes Edinburgh and many parts of the Lothians and Fife. For coverage map, go to: http://www.ukrepeater.net/repeaters/gb3ff.htm

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30 June 2010

Annual Lothians Barbecue

The annual Barbecue of the Lothians Radio Society was held on Wednesday 30th June at the QTH of Pete GM4BYF and Kay Bates GM6KAY and was enjoyed by all who attended.  Our thanks go to Pete and Kay for their kind hospitality.

For more photographs of this event by GM4DTH and GM3PSP, go to the "Society Activities" area of this website.

This was the last meeting of the 2009-10 club year. Meetings will recommence on 8th September when Dr. John Cooke GM8OTI will present his Presidential Address.

Our gracious hosts Pete GM4BYF and Kay GM6KAY.

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At the LRS meeting on 24 February the President, Colin GM4HWO displayed the contest trophies that had been won in the 2008 VHF National Field Day (5-6 July).

 

Colin Wright GM4HWO holding trophies

The trophies are the Martlesham trophy (left), awarded for first place in the Restricted Section, with an overall score of 3476 points and top band-scores on 70 MHz and 144 MHz. Lothians RS were Runners-up in this section in 2007. The trophy on the right is the Cockenzie Quaich, retained from 2007, awarded to LRS as the highest placed Scottish entry in this section.

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We have moved the content of our site to a format that will (we hope) be more attractive, easier to maintain, and more useful and informative. We are now posting photographs of most recent meetings, Field Days etc. See what you may have missed!

To use a well-worn cliche - THIS IS YOUR WEBSITE - so please let us know of any additions or improvements that would give it more value to you. Contact Alan GM3PSP or John GM8OTI  / QTHR

It is planned to add a section on the Lothians Archives, including photographs. If you have photographs that might be suitable, please contact Alan GM3PSP QTHR.