Photographs from the early years of LRS

 

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The Lothians Radio Society had an exhibition stand for a number of years at the annual Hobbies and Handicrafts Exhibition held by the Rotary Club of Edinburgh in the Waverley Market.

1954

At the 1954 Hobbies Exhibition the LRS stand was visited by the Lord Provost, Sir James Miller and Lady Miller, seen here speaking into the microphone with Arthur Grainger GM3BQO standing behind her. In the rear is the (very large and heavy) RCA ET4336A transmitter owned by Ken Senior GM3AEI (SK), which is still (2013) owned by the Senior family (Mike GM3PAK, Marian GM1DCB, Joan Rosselle now-GM3AEI and Neil GM1ZOX).

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The Lothians Radio Society operated an exhibition station GB3EIF for a number of years in the late-1960s - early-1970s to publicise Amateur Radio during the Edinburgh International Festival.

 

GB3EIF operating from the Heriot-Watt University in the late-1960s. 

Prof. Arthur Bolton GM3BMI, Brian Flynn GM8BJF, David Guest GM3TFY, Vic Stewart GM3OWU.

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The Lothians Radio Society operated in RSGB National Field Day (NFD) for many years from a farm site at Loanhead, Midlothian, arranged by local amateur Hugh Lawson GM5HL. In later years other sites were used at school playing fields in Edinburgh and on one occasion beside Falside Castle on the hill above Tranent in East Lothian. 

 

 National Field Day ~1955 at Loanhead

National Field Day in the mid-1950s, probably at Loanhead, where the LRS operated NFD for a number of years through the good offices of local amateur Hugh Lawson GM5HL who sweetened the farmer's wife with a large box of chocolates each year! The equipment was a home-brew 10W CW transmitter running on dry HT batteries, and a National HRO receiver.

Standing L-R: Iain Maconochie GM3GIG "Gin is Good"; unidentified; Arthur Grainger GM3BQO "Britain's Queerest Object" (behind bottle); Ken Senior GM3AEI; unidentified; G. "Fryer" Tuck GM3BBW "Big Bad Wolf"; David Stobie GM3HOQ; Arthur Dewar SWL; Sitting: Hugh Lawson GM5HL "5-Harry Lauder".