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LRS Messages of the Day
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Wed 5th Nov 2025 – LRS Net 189 – 8pm – 144.350MHz SSB – All welcome.
Wed 12th Nov 2025 – LRS – A Radio Safari to Eswatini (3DAØ – formerly Swaziland) by Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL.
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Sat 1st Nov – GMRT-2025 at MoC Burntisland. Photos – see Radio News Items.
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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AUTUMN 2025
Sat 8th Nov 2025 – MOC Goudie Lecture – 11:30am – 80 Years of Airborne Radar – by Dr Iain Scott FREng followed by buffet lunch. (After MOC AGM at 10:30-11:30am).
Wed 12th Nov at 14:00h at Napier Univ. Craiglockhart – Technological advances in the development of WW2 airborne radar by Prof. Peter Grant. Click for details.
Wed 12th Nov at 20:00h at BHH: 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: 8:00pm at Kahani Indian Restaurant (BYOB), 10 Antigua Street, after pre-dinner drinks 7:00-7:55pm Jeremiah’s Tap, Elm Row.
RECENT MEETINGS
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15 Oct 2025 – Autumn Surplus Sale
The Autumn Surplus Sale was held as usual at St Fillan’s Church… Read more
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1st Oct 2025 – Using Ansys HFSS Software for Amateur Radio Projects by Brian Howie GM4DIJ.
Brian discussed the workings of Ansys HFSS = High Frequency RF Simulation… Read more
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24 Sept 2025 – LRS Visit to MoC TV Exhibition & Bletchley Park Talk by Pete GM4BYF.
Speaker Pete GM4BYF was introduced by MoC Chair, Prof Tom Stevenson. Wed… Read more
RALLIES AND OTHER EVENTS
RALLY CALENDAR post missing.
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 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, 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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2. SILENT KEYS
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3. ITEMS FOR SALE
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Lothians Radio Society activities – latest reports
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26 Oct 2025 – LRS at Galashiels Rally
Several LRS members attended the Gala Rally. L-R: Kay GM6KAY, Pete GM4BYF, Danny GM6CMQ & Brian GM8BJF. (Photo Andy MMØFMF).
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28 Oct 2025 – Bletchley Park talk by Derek Douglas at Newington Library
This was a well-illustrated basic talk about Bletchley Park and the notable people who worked there during WW2. Derek Douglas […]
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3 Oct 2025 – 75th Anniversary of the Transistor
The 3rd of October 2025 was the 75th anniversary of the patenting of the invention of the transistor by three […]
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Peter Brown G(M)3YOK Visit to Edinburgh
Former LRS member Peter Brown G(M)3YOK, now living in Cheshire, recently visited Edinburgh and met up with Brian Flynn GM8BJF.
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20 Sept 2025 – Colin GM4EAU & Iain GM8LYQ of LRS in RSGB LoRa Balloon Challenge
The LoRa Balloon. Colin GM4EAU & Iain GM8LYQ on East Lomond in Fife. Local (Fife) amateur Dougie MMØISH […]
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19 Sept 2025 – LRS Members in RSGB RadCom
LRS member Vic GM3OWU has a letter on RAYNET Voice Procedure published in RSGB RadCom Oct 2025, p.89. (Over & Out)! […]
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10 Sept 2025 – Andy Sinclair MM0FMF – Presidential Address – “Things that made me go hmmmmmm…….” (Windows-11 & QRP ATUs).
Ø LRS President Andy Sinclair MMØFMF started the new club year with his Presidential Address “”Things that made me go […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
