The Video Night 2026 was presented by Colin Murray GM4EAU in the BHH Gathering Room with an attendance of 19.
1. From Raw Crystal to Crystal Oscillator – Crystals Go to War in 1943. (45 min)
The manufacture of quartz crystal electronic components and their use for the control of oscillators on precise frequencies.
Natural quartz crystal and slice at a particular angle.
Operator testing a finished crystal component electronically.
2. The Spying Game – the SOE (from History Channel). (45 min).
P.M. Winston Churchill who authorised the SOE operations in Europe.
(Special Operations Executive).
A lecture on the operations of the SOE in WW2 was given by an actual participant, Bob McFarlane, at the LRS meeting on 24 Feb 2014.