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There was an excellent turnout of 25 including several visitors for the first meeting in 2014 on Wed 8th January - the annual Video Night in the excellent screening room of the Edinburgh Cine & Video Society, organised by Peter GM4DTH. The programme was:
1. "The Tower of Babble" (1964) - Post Office Tower.
2. "The Long Span" (1964) - Forth Road Bridge.
3. "The Secret Wireless War: Beyond Bletchley Park" - VI (Voluntary Interceptor) Service in WWII.
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Twenty LRS members and visitors enjoyed our annual Christmas Curry at the Himalaya Tandoori Restaurant at Bruntsfield on Wed 11th December 2013.
Full Report with many photos.
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At the meeting of the LRS on Wednesday 27th November 2013 LRS member Malcolm Hamilton GM3TAL talked on "Home Spun Antennas" including a 5/8λ vertical and a Bobtail Curtain for 10m. Full report.
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The AMSAT FUNcube-1 / AO-73 educational satellite was launched on Thursday 21st November 2013.
(Photo courtesy AMSAT-UK)
It has already been heard, and data decoded, by LRS member John GM8OTI. John reports it's very loud on his 5-element yagi. Alan GM3PSP has also heard it using a vertical antenna.
The nominal beacon / data frequency is 145.935MHz. Start about .938 and follow down to .933 with the Doppler-shift. The beacon / data signal consists of a band of noise, presumably data, about 2kHz wide, with a tone dash every 5 seconds
The transponder is now active: up on 435.150 - 435.130MHz; down on 145.950 - 145.970MHz.
GM3PSP heard GB3RS in QSO on 145.960 at 10:50z on Friday morning.
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The antenna dismantling crew on Sunday.
L-R: Alan GM3PSP, Danny GM6CMQ, Peter GM4DTH, Brian GM8BJF, Vic GM3OWU, Mike GM8KCS, Bill T6/K5WEJ & Norrie GM1CNH.
The LRS operated special event station GM100RSGB as part of the RSGB's Centenary celebrations on Mon 18th to Wed 20th Nov. from a nice quiet site near Armadale, West Lothian, with a QRO station and a 3-element beam at 20 metres high. Conditions were particularly good on 10m and we spent all of Monday and most of Wednesday on that band, working mostly DX but with some G-stations. On Tuesday we worked mostly 40m. On Wednesday we were back on 10m and 20m. A total of 563 QSOs were made. DX included VK, VP8 (Falklands), W6 & T6 (Afghanistan). The antenna was dismantled on Sunday 24th Nov. Click for Full Report.
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