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LRS Messages of the Day:
Wed 7 Oct 2026 – LRS Net 144.350MHz. Wed 14 Oct 2026 – LRS Autumn Surplus Equipment Sale at St Fillans Church. Sat 24 Oct 2026 – MoC Goudie lecture Baird, Early Television and Museum Legacy, will be presented by Iain Logie Baird, grandson of John Logie Baird. See Upcoming Meetings. Sat 31 Oct 2026 – NOTE – GMRT-2026 is now FULLY BOOKED.
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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The next MoC Goudie Lecture will take place at 11.30 am on Saturday 24 October, followed by a buffet lunch for in-person attendees. Entitled Vision 1926: Baird, Early Television and Museum Legacy, presented by Iain Baird, grandson of John Logie Baird. Please see Events – Museum Of Communication for further information.To attend in person, please email enquiries@mocft.co.uk or REPLY ALL to this e-mail.
Zoom access details will be sent to you about 10 days before the Lecture.
Attendance in person costs £5. Those viewing the lectures online are encouraged to make a voluntary donation of £5 in support of MoC activities via our web page at Shop – Museum Of Communication . We are a charitable organisation that relies on
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. GMRT-2026 is now FULLY-BOOKED – all 50 places sold. WAITING LIST – Contact Colin GM4HWO. https://gmroundtable.org.uk/
CONTEST CALENDAR
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The LRS operates GM3HAM/P from a great site near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway.
(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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23 Sept 2026 – LRS visits MoC for TV Exhibition and Goudie TV Lecture
LRS members had dinner at the Sands Hotel in Burntisland before going on to the Museum of Communication to view the 2026 exhibition “100 Years of Television – When Screens were small but the magic felt huge” and the lecture by Prof. Tom Stevenson. An MoC guide describes an exhibit item to LRS visitors. An old TV repair shop. Applications of television technology. Introduction to the history of TV – 1905: First images in a Cathode-RayTube. Applications of TV technology. John Logie Baird’s dummy Stookie Bill and his disc scanner. An image…
2. RECENT MEETINGS
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23 Sept 2026 – MoC Goudie Lecture – 100 Years of Television – some technical milestones – by Prof Tom Stevenson
The was an excellent turnout of members of the Museum of… Read more
3. SILENT KEYS
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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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3 Sept 2025 – Tower Removal.
Colin GM4HWO reports: John GM4JRT purchased a 9m-high Strumech tower from the XYL of a SK who resided in a smallholding in the Bathgate Hills. Yesterday John, Peter Barclay and myself assisted Andrew Dignan from Radio Tower Engineering to dismantle- and load it onto a flat-bed trailer and transport it to John’s QTH in Craiglockhart.
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LRS Online Membership Payment Option
From LRS Treasurer, John Taylor GM4JRT: This year we will be offering several different methods for members to pay their £25 membership, one of which will be an online payment via online banking (BACS or Faster Payment). If you would like to pay your £25 membership for 2025/26 via online banking – please send an…
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1-7 Sept 2025 – GB70RS on the HF Bands (Peter GM4DTH).
Peter GM4DTH, our local GB2RS news reader in Edinburgh, writes: I operated GB70RS, which is the callsign to celebrate 70 years of the RSGB GB2RS news service, when weather permitted, from 1 to 7 September. Most of my planned operation was on HF from an out-of-doors station near my flat. The reason…
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27 Aug 2025 – LRS Pub Night 5 at Wee Bennet’s Bar
There was a very good turnout of at least 11 for the last Pub Night of the summer, (Tnx Colin GM4HWO and John GM8OTI for the photos). Colin GM4EAU, John GM8OTI & Andy MM7MDX. Briain GM8PKL & Brian GM4DIJ.
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13 Aug 2025 – LRS Pub Night 4 at Wee Bennet’s Bar
L-R Melvyn GM4HYR, Peter GM4DTH, Grant GMØDQZ and (cameraman) Briain GM8PKL. Peter GM4DTH writes: There was a small turnout with Briain, Grant, Melvyn and myself. There was plenty space indoors as most of the patrons were outside. It was a pleasant evening with all sorts of subjects covered. With the warmth I am glad that…
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8 Aug 2025 – Cockenzie & Port Seton 30th Mini-Rally & Junk Night.
Photos of the event tnx Colin GM4HWO, Peter GM4DTH & Pete GM4BYF. General view, showing LRS (L) and RSGB (R) tables. At the LRS table: Pete GM4BYF, Brian GM8BJF & John GM4JRT. John GM4JRT & Colin GM4HWO. At the RSGB table – Colin GM4EAU (rhs) with Nathan Nuttal 2M0OCC (from Stirling)…
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Wed 30 July 2025 – LRS Pub Night 3 @ Wee Bennet’s Bar
Peter GM4DTH, Mike GM8KCS, John GM4JRT (+ dog Skye/K9 under arm), John GM8OTI.
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23-24 Aug 2025 – Montrose Air Station Open Days, Radio Sale & HF Demo Station
Three LRS members – Colin GM4HWO, Bill Dent GM8RBT and Mike GM8KCS attended. “We are holding the Open day at the Museum on the 23rd and 24th August and the radio section will be putting on an HF demonstration station as well as trying to clear some of the accumulation of bits and pieces which…
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9 July 2025 – Pub Night 1 at Wee Bennet’s Bar
L-R: Vic GM3OWU, Colin GM4HWO, Mike GM8KCS, Colin GM4EAU, Melvyn GM4HYR, Pete GM4BYF, Alan GM3PSP, Peter GM4DTH, Andy MM7MDX.
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25 June 2025 – LRS 2025 Barbecue
Guests gathering for the meal. The 2025 Summer Barbecue was again held at the QTH of Pete GM4BYF and Kay Bates GM6KAY, better known as “Bates Motel”. There was a good attendance of about 22 people. The weather was dry but cloudy and a little cool but most people enjoyed their meal outside in Pete…
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18 June 2025 – Nicholas Gretzinger WN2G – 1st International Winner of the Andre Saunders GM3VLB Scottish Islands Award
18 June 2025 – WN2G Nicholas Gretzinger – 1st International Winner of Andre Saunders GM3VLB Scottish Islands Award Photo – tnx WN2G / QRZ.com “We continue with the Andre Saunders GM3VLB Scottish Islands Award which rewards activity in Scottish Islands. The award has had its first international recipient, Nicholas Gretzinger, WN2G (in NY State), which…
