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LRS Secretary Mike MM0MLB welcoming all present.

The LRS Autumn Surplus Equipment Sale was held on 19th October 2016 at St Fillan's Church, Buckstone, with about 25 members and visitors attending. A wide range of surplus equipment was sold with a good contribution to club funds from donated items.

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At the annual LRS visit to the Museum of Communication, Burntisland on 28th September local historian and author Diana Maxwell gave a talk based on her book Listen Up! about HMS Tarlair, the Admiralty Research Station at Hawkcraig Point near Aberdour, which researched methods of detecting submarines during WW1. The book was featured on BBC-TV programmes Coast, The Great War at Sea - Scotland's Story and Antiques Road Trip, and copies of the 2nd Edition were available at the meeting.
With the invention of the Hydrophone - a sophisticated underwater microphone - the base became an important 'listening post', able to detect German U-boats in the Firth of Forth.
Top scientists and musicians of the day were involved. (Why musicians? Many possessed 'perfect / absolute pitch' and could detect even the slightest nuances in sound levels...)
 

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Jim Forbes of Leonardo talked about the manufacture of equipment for RADAR at the LRS meeting on 22nd March 2017.

He writes: "Leonardo is a multinational defence company specialising mainly in military products. The Edinburgh division, which traces its roots back to Ferranti in 1942, specialises in Radar systems and in Lasers. For the past 25 years or so I’ve worked on the manufacture of complex microwave modules for a large number of the company’s products.  

Leonardo Captor-E Radar in aircraft nose-cone. Photo courtesy Leonardo