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LRS Messages of the Day
Wed 12 Feb 2025 – 20:00h – The end of the line … for a bit? – Ed Bain GM4AIS.
- See below – Upcoming Meetings.
Sat 15 Feb 2025 11:00am – MoC Lecture – ‘The Palimpsest Hoax” by Mervyn Hagger
- Need to book in advance to attend in person and lunch. Zoom also possible.
- See below – Upcoming Meetings
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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12 Feb 2025 – The End of the Line … for a Bit?by Ed Bain GM4AISThe continuing rollout of fibre optic cables, with the resultant increasing availability of high speed data and voice over internet circuits, is driving the current programme of line replacement to domestic and business premises.
We look at some of the various data circuit techniques from past decades, which are now laying down their bits as they reach the ends of their lines.
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The full Calendar of LRS Meetings for 2024-25 has been prepared by James GM4WZP (mni tnx) and uploaded to this site (click top).
RECENT MEETINGS
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RALLIES AND OTHER EVENTS
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Sat 5 Apr 2025 – 26th GMDX Convention & Dinner
The 26th GMDX Convention & Dinner will be held at the King Robert Hotel, Bannockburn, on Sat 5 Apr 2025. – Click for Program
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Sun 13 April 2025 – NORBRECK rally, Blackpool
Click the image for the NARSA link
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Sat 1 Nov 2025 – Scottish Microwave Round Table (GMRT 2025)
The date has been set for the 2025 Scottish Microwave Round Table – GMRT-2025, – on Saturday 1 November at the Museum of Communication, Burntisland with dinner at the Kingswood hotel. More information in June / July – Colin GM4HWO.
CONTEST CALENDAR
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The LRS normally operates as GM3HAM/P from a site near Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway.
3-4 May 2025 – May VHF/UHF Contest – unlikely due to rule changes.
5-6 July 2025 – VHF NFD – organized by Pete GM4BYF & Colin GM4HWO.
6-7 Sept 2025 – 2m Trophy – undecided at present.
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 144.575MHz for local net. Several LRS members often there.

RADIO NEWS, SILENT KEYS and FOR SALE / WANTED
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Lothians Radio Society activities – latest reports
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21 Nov 2024 – Getting Started on 23cm – GM3TAL-GM8BJF-GM8OTI Sked Report by John Cooke GM8OTI
Three LRS members were on the air on 23cm (1296MHz) this evening, 21st November. Malcolm GM3TAL had given a talk […]