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LRS Messages of the Day:
Fri 14th Aug – 6-9pm – Cockenzie & Port Seton Junk Night with LRS table – volunteers needed!LRS August Pub Nights: Wed 5th Aug, Wed 19th Aug, 7:30pm Wee Bennet’s Bar, Morningside Stn – All Welcome.
NOTE: Wed 5th Aug – expecting Austrian visitors Silvia OE5TTB & Ortwin OE5OMO – see News Item below.LRS August Nets: Wed 12th Aug, Wed 26th Aug 8pm – 144.350MHz SSB – All welcome.
31 Oct 2026: GMRT, the Scottish Microwave Round Table now has a complete panel of speakers and a dinner menu. It is now open to bookings. https://gmroundtable.org.uk/ and see below.
LRS MEETINGS
LRS meetings are normally held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month (except July and August) at 8:00pm at the Braid Hills Hotel, 134 Braid Road, EH10 6JD.
In July and August Pub Nights are held at 7:30pm at Wee Bennet’s Bar at Morningside Station, on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. There are also occasional Wee Bennet’s evenings arranged during the main club season.
Most items are archived in Meeting Reports or Society Activities.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
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LRS 2026 Barbecue CANCEELED due to Kay’s accident.
Wed 9 Sept 2026 – Presidential Address – Andy Sinclair GM4LLD.
Wed 23rd Sept 2026 – LRS Visit to MOC Burntisland 2026 Exhibition – When Screens were Small, but the Magic seemed Huge – 100 Years of Television. There will also be a lecture by Prof. Tom Stevenson – 100 Years of Television – some Technical Milestones, including the early days of TV in Orkney.
RALLIES AND OTHER EVENTS
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Friday 14th August 2026 18:00 to 21:00 Cockenzie & Port Seton Junk Night, Port Seton Community Centre, South Seton Park Port Seton EH32 0BG
22-23 Aug 2026 – Montrose Air Station Museum – FREE Open weekend with demo radio shack and sale of surplus radio equipment.
Sunday 25 Oct 2026 – Galashiels Rally.
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Sat 31 Oct 2026 – GMRT-2026 at MOC Burntisland & Dinner at Kingswood Hotel
The 2026 Scottish Microwave Round Table (GMRT-2026) will be held as usual at the Museum of Communication in Burntisland, followed by dinner at the nearby Kingswood Hotel. The panel of speakers is now complete. The registration system is now open for booking.
https://gmroundtable.org.uk/
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9 May – 30 Sept – Weds & Sats – MOC Exhibition 2026
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27 Sept 2026 MOC Goudie Lecture – 100 Years of Television.
The next MOC Goudie Lecture will take place at 7.30 pm on WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER and is entitled 100 Years of Television. It will be presented by Museum Chair Prof. Tom Stevenson. Please see Events – Museum Of Communication for further information.
Sunday 25 Oct 2026 – Galashiels Rally
CONTEST CALENDAR
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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.
(This photo by Andy MMØFMF / now GM4LLD, is in RSGB RadCom Sept 2025, p.80).
RSGB GB2RS NEWS
Every Sunday morning in the Edinburgh area at 09:30h from LRS member Peter Dick GM4DTH. 70.425MHz FM, 145.525MHz FM & 433.525MHz FM. Then call-in to Peter at 10:00h on 145.575MHz for local net. Several LRS members often there.
RADIO NEWS, RECENT MEETINGS, SILENT KEYS and FOR SALE / WANTED
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2. RECENT MEETINGS
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22 July 2026 – Summer Pub Night 2
Photos by John GM8OTI taken at Wee Bennet’s Bar, Morningside Station. Also… Read more
3. SILENT KEYS
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4. ITEMS FOR SALE
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Lothians Radio Society activities – latest reports
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Wednesday 11th Sept 2013 – “SOTA” – Presidential Address by Andy Sinclair MM0FMF
Andy Sinclair MM0FMF delivering his second Presidential Address The new year of LRS meetings started with a bang with the Presidential Address by Andy Sinclair MM0FMF on 11th September. The title was “SOTA – Summits on the Air, an award scheme for Radio Amateurs”. Andy described with very obvious enthusiasm how this scheme has rapidly…
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60th Anniversary of LRS RSGB Affiliation – 11th August 2013
The Secretary has found the original RSGB Affiliation Certificate of the Lothians Radio Society in the club archives. It is dated 11th August 1953 and is signed by RSGB President Leslie Cooper, G5LC. As far as we know, this has been continuous affiliation and so we toasted our 60th anniversary at LRS Pub Night 3…
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Cockenzie Mini-Rally / Junk Night – 9th August 2013
Jack GM1CQC, John GM8OTI, Brian GM8BJF, Paul GM4UPN, David GM4ZNX. There was a good turnout of LRS members at the the 20th annual Cockenzie Mini-Rally / Junk Night which was held on Friday 9th August 2013 at the Cockenzie & Port Seton Community Centre. The Lothians Radio Society had a promotional table as usual with LRS…
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6-7 July 2013 VHF NFD at Gatehouse of Fleet
Alan GM3PSP, Brian GM4DIJ, Danny GM6CMQ, Brian GM8BJF, Colin GM4HWO, Mike GM4IGS, Terry GM3WUX, Pete GM4BYF, Robin GM4YPL, Chris MMOZCT, with our long yagis behind. The GM3HAM Contest Group of the Lothians Radio Society had great weather for VHF NFD 2013 which we operated again from our site in the hills above Gatehouse of Fleet in…
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Summer Pub Nights – 2nd & 4th Weds, July & Aug 2013
During the summer break in July and August we held informal Pub Nights on the normal meeting nights of the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at “Wee Bennets” Bar at Morningside. Some of those at Pub Night 3 on 14th August: Peter GM4DTH, Malcolm GM3TAL (rear), Bernie GM4WZG, John GM8OTI, Brian GM8BJF; behind camera:…
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26th June 2013 – Summer Barbecue
Enjoying the BBQ in the garden before the midges drove us inside! The Annual Summer Barbecue of the Lothians Radio Society was held on Wednesday 26th June 2013 at the QTH of Pete GM4BYF and Kay Bates GM6KAY. The weather was good and the turnout was excellent, both of Radio Amateurs and of midges in the…
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GM8OTI/P 10GHz Hilltopping – 26 May 2013
John GM8OTI/P with his Hilltops portable 10GHz station on Cairnharrow Hill, Dumfries & Galloway. The first UK Microwave Group 10GHz contest of the year on Sunday 26th May gave LRS member John GM8OTI a chance to try out his home brew 10GHz transverter from a hilltop. He chose Cairnharrow near Newton Stewart in Dumfries & Galloway in…
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AGM – 12th June 2013 – Election Results
At the Annual General Meeting of the Lothians Radio Society at the Braid Hills Hotel on 12th June 2013 the following committee members were elected for 2013-14: President: Andy Sinclair MM0FMF Secretary: Alan Masson GM3PSP Treasurer: Peter Dick GM4DTH Committee: Colin Wright GM4HWO Brian Flynn GM8BJF Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL John Cooke GM8OTI Jack Smith…
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MOC Lecture “Invention and Inspiration in the Digital Age’ – Thurs 23rd May
EVENING LECTURE at THE MUSEUM of COMMUNICATION 131 High Street, Burntisland KY3 9AA on Thursday, 23rd May at 7.30 pm ‘Invention and Inspiration in the Digital Age’ Speaker: Prof. Bill Kennedy, (Professor of Photocommunications at St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas) DearSupporter, The next Lecture takes place in 10 days’ time and I hope…
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22 May 2013 – restoring the R1155 / T1154 Part 2 by Ian Ropper GM0UHC
Ian Ropper GM0UHC returned to the Lothians on 22nd May 2013 to present Part 2 of his talk “Restoring the R1155 / T1154. He described progress made since his last talk “Part 1” on 27 April 2011 (click for Pt.1 Report) – the short-comings of what went before, through the service life of the type and some…
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4-5 May 2013 RSGB Microwave Trophy
L-R: Robin GM4YPL, Chris MM0ZCT, Andy MM0FMF, Pete GM4BYF, Alan GM3PSP, Brian GM8BJF, John GM8OTI. Seven members of the Lothians Radio Society took part in the RSGB Microwave Trophy Contest on 4th – 5th May from our usual site in the hills above Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway. Most arrived on the…
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D/F Hunt – Wed 8th May 2013
The brave souls who made it to the Fox station half-way up Caerketton Hill. The annual LRS Direction Finding Contest was held on Wednesday 8th May 2013 starting from the Braid Hills Hotel. Most of the participants found the Fox station, manned by Peter GM4DTH, but only after a strenuous climb to a grassy knoll half way up…