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LRS Messages of the Day:
Wed 9 Sept 2026 – LRS President’s Address: “Secondary Batteries for Hams”. The new LRS year got off to a good start with Andy’s talk on batteries – report: see Recent Meetings.Wed 23 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. 5:00pm Pre-Dinner at Sands Hotel, Burntisland.
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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Wed 23 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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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 open for booking. We have sold 47 Event tickets – 3 tickets left – max room capacity = 50. Suggest you book asap to avoid disappointment. 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 Sept 2026 – Brian GM4DIJ operated GM3HAM/P in RSGB 2m Trophy from IO74MU near Stranraer. See report in Radio News Items.
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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Items usually archived as News or Silent Keys in LRS Archive after 1 month.
1. RADIO NEWS ITEMS
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9 Sept 2026 – New LRS Projector.
The club’s new Epson projector was in action for the first time for the 2026 Presidential Address and impressed all present with its outstanding brightness and sharpness.
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7 Sept 2026 – Attempt to save Parton Kirk where James Clerk Maxwell is buried.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9v9e080n78o https://donate.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/savepartonkirk/donation-amount Andy GM4LLD (ex-MM0FMF)
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5-6 Sept 2026 GM3HAM/P operated by Brian GM4DIJ in RSGB 2m Trophy.
Brian GM4DIJ single-handedly operated GM3HAM/P for the LRS from his favourite site at IO74MU near Stranraer in Dumfries & Galloway. Tx/Rx = IC9700+SSPA. Power 1000W. Ant 17 ele Tonna @5magl, 89m ASL QSOs 145. Points 54591. ODX HB9TTY JN46BX 1265 km. Position 6th overall in Claimed Scores. Most of my contacts were on Saturday, but much better conditions on Sunday. It was very windy on Sunday and I had noise from nearby wind turbines. The rain stayed away. The antenna was looking a bit scary towards the end, so I packed-in a little bit early. I got…
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5 Sept 2026 – Beetlejuice by Bill Dent (GM8RBT)
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26 Aug 2026 – Pub Night at Wee Bennet’s Bar with guest Dave VE3KG.
We had a great turn-out of about a dozen members and one guest at the Pub Night on 26th August 2026 at Wee Bennet’s Bar at Morningside Station. Also one canine – GM4JRT/K9. We were delighted to welcome Canadian guest, Dave Goodwin VE3KG from Smiths Falls, Ontario. As well as his Canadian call, Dave also holds the rather interesting UK call GM3AAA. He sat and passed all three levels of RAE exams and chose the re-issued UK call GM3AAA which was originally issued as the first UK call after WW2.
2. RECENT MEETINGS
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9 Sept 2026 – Secondary Batteries for Hams – Presidential Address by Andy Sinclair GM4LLD.
Andy Sinclair GM4LLD got the new LRS year off to a good… Read more
3. SILENT KEYS
There are no current silent key notifications. Click on the heading to see the silent key archive.
4. ITEMS FOR SALE
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13 June 2026 Dell Monitor for sale by Andy GM4LLD.
Dell U2412M hi-res 1920 x 1200 LCD monitor Adjustable stand DisplayPort, DVI & VGA inputs 1920 x 1200 WUXGA resolution 4 port USB2 hub. Mains lead Very good condition, no screen blemishes. £35 Andy GM4LLD.
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28 June 2026 – Corsair CV450 modern PC PSU – for sale by Andy GM4LLD
Corsair CV450 modern PC PSU. Comes from my son’s PC as he has just updated with some new GPU that needs a bigger PSU. No box but clean and working. £20 Andy GM4LLD (ex-MM0FMF)
Lothians Radio Society activities – latest reports
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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…
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24th April 2013 – Code Breakers – Video Evening
At the meeting of the Lothians Radio Society on 24th April 2013 an American-made video of the work of Code Breakers was shown. It described how code breakers shaped major events in the 20th century, including America’s entry into WWI through the decoding of the Zimmermann telegram, the cracking of the German Enigma code at GC&CS Bletchley Park during WWII,…
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LRS Members at Norbreck Rally, Blackpool on 7th April 2013
On the Sunday, as well as attending the rally, John GM8OTI worked GM0USI on the Mull of Galloway on 10GHz from the Blackpool sea-front over a sea-path of 148km with only 35mW of SSB. A group of members of the Lothians Radio Society attended the Norbreck Rally in Blackpool on Sunday, 7th April 2013. Travelling…
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10th Apr 2013 – An Evening with Microwaves by GM8OTI & GM8BJF
The LRS had an Evening with Microwaves presented by Brian GM8BJF and John GM8OTI on 10th April 2013. They described how they designed, constructed and operate their microwave equipment. Brian Flynn GM8BJF described his 6cm transverter, AD synthesiser and some homebrew equipment constructed using PCBs (“it’s not all about waveguides, you know”)! John Cooke GM8OTI talked about simple and cheap homebrew…
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Wed 3rd April – Surplus Equipment Sale
There was an excellent turnout of 29 for the Lothians Radio Society Spring Junk Sale on Wednesday 3rd April 2013 at St Fillan’s Church. The sale included a number of Silent Key items – oscilloscopes, test equipment, computer monitors and many components and other smaller items. There were visitors from several other clubs. The raffle was won by Pete GM4BYF.…
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Wed 27th Mar 2013 – The Sinking of the Flying Enterprise – Angus Annan MM1CCR
Angus Annan MM1CCR talking to the Lothians Radio Society Angus Annan MM1CCR, former President of the RSGB, gave a great talk on the Sinking of the Flying Enterprise on 27th March 2013. Angus writes: An Amateur Radio Adventure in January 1952 – the story of my boyhood hero, Captain Kurt Carlsen, W2ZXM, and how, through Amateur Radio,…
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13th March 2013 – The Changing Face of Antarctic Communications by Mike GM0HCQ
Mike Gloistein GM0HCQ talked on “From Morse Code to the Worldwide Web – the Changing Face of Antarctic Communications” at the Lothians Radio Society meeting on Wednesday 13th March 2013. Mike joined the British Antarctic Survey as a Radio Officer in 1990 and has been ‘South’ every year since then. He was awarded the Polar Medal by Her Majesty…
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SILENT KEY – Pat Hawker G3VA
Radio amateurs around the world will be saddened to learn of the death of Pat Hawker MBE, G3VA, on 21 February 2013. He was 90 years old. Pat was first licensed in 1936 as 2BUH, becoming G3VA in 1938. He was a Secret Listener during WWII and a Technical Information Officer with the IBA after…
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27 Feb 2013 – VHF Tracking by Stan Frey GM8ZQY
A vehicle-mounted tracking display. At the meeting of the LRS on 27th Feb 2013 Stan Frey GM8ZQY talked about VHF Tracking. His comprehensive presentation covered tracking technologies and applications to both commercial (vehicle tracking), and non-commercial uses, starting with tracking bats!. Full Report.
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13 Feb 2013 – Wire Antennas for HF by GM3TAL
Malcolm’s Delta Loop wire antenna for 28MHz At the meeting of the Lothians Radio Society on 13th February 2013 Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL, who is a keen HF DXer and contester, presented some reasons for using wire antennas and described practical examples of antennas he has tried out in a variety of different locations. Constructional hints and tips were offered…