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LRS Pub Nights got off to a good start for 2023 on 12th July at Wee Bennet's Bar at Morningside Station. These are held on meeting Wednesdays (2nd & 4th of month) during the summer break.  Cheers!

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 Results - Restricted Section - GM3HAM/P

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Final group shot - tnx Andy MM0FMF.

Results all confirmed by RSGB:

Band    QSOs    Pts    Best DX    km  Place

Overall - Restricted Section -          3rd

   50      88    108612  5B4AAB  3573   1st   

   70       47     16234     S51DI    1678   1st  

 144     116   37623   F1MKG     771   5th

    432     34     11711    OR6T       749   5th   

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Great turnout of 24.

Mni tnx to Pete GM4BYF & Kay GM6KAY.

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Peter Dick GM4DTH, Colin Wright GM4HWO

Short report: all committee re-elected; membership fees unchanged.

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Fox location Torduff Hill nr Bonaly

Four teams took part in the 2023 D/F Hunt, starting at "The Tardis" on Braid Hills Road. Peter GM4DTH operated Fox GM3HAM/P from the top of Torduff Hill in the Pentlands. 

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10 May 2023 -  "SOTA Old & New" by the Two Andys - MM0FMF & MM7MOX 

Andy MM7MOX & Andy MM0FMF

Andy Sinclair MM0FMF and Andy Black MM7MOX  gave a talk on SOTA - Summits On The Air - Old & New. Andy MM7MOX is relatively newly-licenced and quite new to SOTA and talked about his experiences as a newcomer. Andy MM0FMF has been licenced for 33 years and active in SOTA for 17 years. He talked about the changes he has seen and his own changes to how he activates summits.
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26 Apr 2023 - Geoff Crowley MM5AHO, who has given many LRS talks in the past on his /MM activities (CLICK), returned to talk about:

"Radio from far-flung places - How to fit our hobby into business and other travel"

Having "unretired" in late 2021 after retiring earlier that year from many years running hot dip galvanizing plants, Geoff formed a consultancy advising others in this industry in how to more effectively run these plants that provide corrosion-protection coatings for steel. Visiting some 22 countries in 2022, Geoff had taken his 2m handy with him and related how 2m as a visitor to many places can be an easy way to combine our hobby with working. We also learned about the galvanising process for reducing metallic corrosion, which costs the UK, and most developed countries over 4% of GDP.

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  1. 22 Apr 2023 - LRS at Norbreck Rally, Blackpool
  2. 12 Apr 2023 - LRS Spring Surplus Equipment Sale
  3. 8 March 2023 - Brian Flynn GM8BJF - Nano-VNAs (1) In Theory
  4. 22 Feb 2023 - Peter Dick GM4DTH - "Receiving MF D/F Beacons"