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  • LRS Messages of the Day

    21 Aug 2025 – Ammo Box for sale £25 (GM4BYF) – see Items for Sale below, RHS.
    Sat 23 – Sun 24 Aug 2025 – Montrose Air Station Open Days, Radio Sale & HF Demo Station (free admission) – see News Item, below, RHS.
    Wed 27 Aug 2025 – LRS Pub Night 5 – 7:30pm @ Wee Bennet’s Bar.
    Sat 6 – Sun 7 Sept 2025 – RSGB 2m Trophy – LRS will NOT be entering.

LRS MEETINGS

  • SUMMER 2025

    We are currently in our summer break with no formal meetings at the Braid Hills Hotel until we start again in September. First meetings of the new club year:

    Wed 10th Sept – at Braid Hills Hotel: Presidential Address by Andy Sinclair MM0FMF.

    Wed 24th Sept – at Museum of Communication, Burntisland for MOC 2025 Exhibition – The Box that Changed the World – 100 Years of Television, and talk on Bletchley Park, Enigma, Y Stations – The Unsung Heroes/Heroines by Pete Bates GM4BYF. Synopsis:- One or two names are rightly well known for their parts in the system for gathering and decoding/decrypting radio messages and producing Ultra – the intelligence which made a major contribution to the Western Allies eventual success in WW2. But many others were heroes – some of whom gave their lives in the process. This presentation will highlight some of lesser known aspects of what took place.      LRS pre-meeting Fish and Chips at the Sands Hotel – 5pm sharp). 

    Wed 1st Oct (1st Wed) – at BHH: Using Ansys HFSS for Amateur Radio Projects by Brian Howie GM4DIJ. (Ansys HFSS = High Frequency RF Simulation Software).

    Wed 15th Oct – at St Fillan’s Church, Buckstone – LRS Surplus Equipment Sale. Do not arrive before 7:30pm.

    Wed 29th Oct – at Wee Bennet’s Bar, Morningside Stn. – Pub Night.

    Wed 12th Nov at BHH: A Radio Safari to Eswatini  3DA0 by Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL 

    Wed 26th Nov – at BHH: Something to do with Beacons by Brian Flynn GM8BJF.

    Wed 10th Dec – LRS Xmas Curry – location TBD.

    Until then, Summer 2025 Program – tnx Colin GM4HWO:

    27 Aug 2025
    Pub Night 5 @ Wee Bennet’s Bar
    Colin Wright GM4HWO
  • 13 Aug 2025 – LRS Pub Night 4 at Wee Bennet’s Bar

    13 Aug 2025 – LRS Pub Night 4 at Wee Bennet’s Bar

    L-R Melvyn GM4HYR, Peter GM4DTH, Grant GM0DQZ and (cameraman) Briain GM8PKL. Peter… Read more

  • Sat 1 Nov 2025 – Scottish Microwave Round Table (GMRT 2025)

    The 13th Scottish Microwave Round Table GMRT-2025, will go ahead between 10.30h and 17.00h on Saturday 1st  November at the Museum of Communication, Burntisland, Fife. An interesting programme of speakers has been arranged, microwave test facilities will be provided and there will be an opportunity to buy components and microwave-related items. An optional Dinner will be held in the evening at the Kingswood Hotel. Full information and online registration are now available at https://gmroundtable.org.uk/or email Colin GM4HWO  gm4hwo@gmail.com  for further information. Note the event has a maximum capacity of 50 people and only 12 places left – please book now to avoid disappointment.

    GMRT-2025 Program published (click).

  • 23-24 Aug 2025 – Montrose Air Station Open Day & Radio Sale

    See Radio News Items above, RHS.

  • Sun 26 Oct 2025 – Galashiels Rally

    Galashiels Rally – GM4YEQ

    Click for details.

  • This photo, by Andy MM0FMF, is in RSGB RadCom, Sept 2025, p.80 (full width)!

    VHF NFD Results are out. (Tnx Brian GM4DIJ).

    LRS GM3HAM/P entered in Restricted Section from our usual excellent site near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway:

    3rd in Restricted as predicted.
    2nd on 6m / 50MHz
    1st on 4m / 70MHz
    4th on  2m / 144MHz
    6th on 70cm / 432MHz
    A couple of  UBNs on 4m and 6m

    https://www.rsgbcc.org/cgi-bin/vhfresults.pl?Contest=VHF%20Fixed%20Station%20Contest&year=2025

     

     

  • The LRS operates GM3HAM/P from a great site near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway.

    5-6 July 2025 – VHF NFD – see report in About LRS – Contest / Portable.

    6-7 Sept 2025 – 2m Trophy – LRS will NOT be entering.

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  • 29 Jan 2025 – Uniden Bearcat BCT 15X Desktop Scanner – £150 – Dave 6

    29 Jan 2025 – Uniden Bearcat BCT 15X Desktop Scanner – £150 – Dave 6

    Uniden Bearcat BCT 15X Desktop Scanner For Sale  by Dave GM6KGZ See attached files for details.  Boxed and in mint […]

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  • 8 Nov 2024 – Equipment for Sale by Norman MM0BMG

    MM0BMG Equipment Sale – Updated: 8 November 2024 Item Description Price Alinco HF Mobile Whip Antenna 2.7 m mobile whip; […]

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  • 22 Nov 2024 – Tecsun PL990x Multiband Portable Radio plus Active Antenna – PRICE REDUCED TO £90 TO CLEAR – Dave 6 GM6KGZ

    22 Nov 2024 – Tecsun PL990x Multiband Portable Radio plus Active Antenna – PRICE REDUCED TO £90 TO CLEAR – Dave 6 GM6KGZ

    Tecsun PL990x  – Multiband Portable Radio, boxed and in mint condition ML&s price £269. NOW ONLY  £90 TO CLEAR  for […]

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  • 31 Oct 2024 – Avantree Portable Digital Radio with 30W Speakers – Dave-6

    31 Oct 2024 – Avantree Portable Digital Radio with 30W Speakers – Dave-6

    2. Avantree PowerByte Portable Digital FM Radio with 30W Speakers.   Boxed and in mint condition – £40 Tel:  0131 […]

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  • 25 July 2024 – Dave 6 – GM6KGZ – Many Items, boxed, new condition:

    PLEASE NOTE: DAVE HAS REDUCED THE PRICES SHOWN HERE BY A FURTHER 25% (5 Feb 2025): 1.   Uniden Bearcat BCT15X […]

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  • 14 -16 May 2021 – GM3HAM/P – RSGB 2m Contest, Gatehouse of Fleet

    14 -16 May 2021 – GM3HAM/P – RSGB 2m Contest, Gatehouse of Fleet

    Peter GM4DTH and Brian GM4DIJ Back to our favourite site, on a hill-top near Gatehouse of Fleet. Peter GM4DTH described […]

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  • 4-6 Sept 2020 – LRS GM3HAM/P – RSGB 2m Trophy, Gatehouse of Fleet

    4-6 Sept 2020 – LRS GM3HAM/P – RSGB 2m Trophy, Gatehouse of Fleet

    The LRS GM3HAM/P contest group were active during the 2m Trophy Contest from our usual site near Gatehouse of Fleet […]

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  • 23 & 25 July 2020 – 122GHz – Two Firsts in 3 Days by Brian GM8BJF & Pete GM4BYF / G4BYF – Confirmed by UK Microwave Group

    23 & 25 July 2020 – 122GHz – Two Firsts in 3 Days by Brian GM8BJF & Pete GM4BYF / G4BYF – Confirmed by UK Microwave Group

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  • 21st July 2020 – Website: https://WorldRadioHistory.com

    21st July 2020 – Website: https://WorldRadioHistory.com

     WorldRadioHistory.com Many thanks to Brian GM8BJF who has just reported finding a potentially very useful website: https://WorldRadioHistory.com which provides detailed links […]

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  • 19th July 2020 – GM4DIJ/P in RSGB 70MHz Trophy Contest from nr Stranraer in Galloway.

    19th July 2020 – GM4DIJ/P in RSGB 70MHz Trophy Contest from nr Stranraer in Galloway.

    Brian GM4DIJ returned to his favourite portable location at IO74mu about 8km south of Stranraer, to operate in the 70MHz […]

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  • 22 Sept 2021 – WWI Aircraft Electrical Systems including Radio – Bob Thomson, APSS

    22 Sept 2021 – WWI Aircraft Electrical Systems including Radio – Bob Thomson, APSS

      Bob Thomson of the Aviation Preservation Society Scotland described the work to reconstruct a Sopwith Strutter 1 1/2 aircraft, especially […]

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  • 5th April 2020 – Temporary Q-Codes

    Brian GM4DIJ has just received this from his friends in the SOC – Second-Class Operators Club: From SOC mailing listTemporary […]

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  • 01 April 2020 – HAM COVID-19 Guidelines

    EFFECTIVE APRIL 01, 2020. Amateur Radio operators are ordered to strictly observe the Coronavirus mitigation guidelines as they apply to amateur […]

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  • 8 March 2020 – GM4DIJ 23cm DXpedition to Stranraer

    8 March 2020 – GM4DIJ 23cm DXpedition to Stranraer

      Brian Howie GM4DIJ took part in the UK Microwave 23cm contest on Sunday 8th March from a site near […]

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  • 17 March 2020 – LRS MEETINGS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

    In view of the current Coronavirus pandemic with the risk of infection being passed from one person to another when […]

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  • 11th March 2020 – How Not to Sail to the Faeroe Islands – Geoff Crowley MM5AHO

    11th March 2020 – How Not to Sail to the Faeroe Islands – Geoff Crowley MM5AHO

    Geoff’s yacht Contender approaching Rockall during a charity sail there in 2018. At the meeting on March 11th our good […]

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  • 26 Feb 2020 – The Raspberry Pi Explained for Radio Amateurs – Video – Mike Richards G4WNC

    26 Feb 2020 – The Raspberry Pi Explained for Radio Amateurs – Video – Mike Richards G4WNC

    Photo courtesy RadCom The RSGB Convention video “The Raspberry Pi Explained for Radio Amateurs” by Mike Richards G4WNC was shown  […]

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