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The LRS Autumn Surplus Equipment Sale 2023 was held as usual at St Fillans Church in Buckstone.

The items for sale consisted of a very large number of very small items!

 

And the sale was followed by a raffle.

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A number of LRS members attended the Gala Rally. This is Pete GM4BYF's table.

Tnx Colin HWO for photo. Click for more.

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2-8 Oct 2023 - Terry Robinson GM3WUX "73-Cubed" Fund-Raiser for Cancer Research. 

(Photo from fund-raising page).

Our good friend Terry Robinson GM3WUX (Glasgow), who has operated with GM3HAM/P on 50MHz / 70MHz a number of times at VHF NFD, did a fund-raiser in memory of his friend Jeremy Browne G3XZG who died of cancer last year.
 
Terry, who is completely blind, attempted to walk unaided 73 laps of a loop in Glasgow's Queens Park in the week of his 73rd birthday, 2-8 October 2023, covering about 100 miles. He aims to raise "73-cubed" - £389,017 - for cancer research.  See also p.12 in the Sept 2023 RadCom.
 
Well, he succeeded by the end of the Friday, before the very heavy rain of that weekend set in. Click for his report.
 
He has a dedicated fund-raising page, where you can donate, at: (Click)
 
https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jeremy-browne-73-cubed

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Peter Laverock GM8GHQ talked about the UK Government's Restricted Service Broadcast Licences. In 1983/4 he was instrumental in setting up the first station with this licence arrangement from the then “Home Office” and DTI – a two headed monster! 

Peter is a retired BBC Broadcast Radio Journalist who worked for the BBC World Service and Local Radio in the home counties until he retired. He now lives in Edinburgh. We enjoyed his unusual story about Broadcast- rather than Amateur Licences.

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20 Sept 2023 - LRS Annual Visit to the Museum of Communication and talk by James Gentles GM4WZP on his BBC experiences.

 "Personal recollections of working for BBC Scotland in the early 1980s, the halcyon days of analogue TV" - James GM4WZP. 

 
We then toured the MoC 2023 exhibition "The first 100 years of broadcasting in Scotland".
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  1. 17 Sept 2023 - Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL Kiltwalk Fundraiser for Prostate Scotland
  2. 13 Sept 2023 - President's Address - Contesting - Colin Wright GM4HWO
  3. 3 Sept 2023 - RSGB 2m Trophy
  4. 14 Aug 2023 - Cockenzie Mini-Rally