Ian Ropper GM0UHC will return to the Lothians on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 to present Part 2 of his talk "Restoring the R1155 / T1154. The meeting will be held at 7:30 for 8:00pm at the Braid Hills Hotel. Ian will describe progress made since his last talk "Part 1" on 27 April 2011 (click for Report) - the short-comings of what went before, through the service life of the type and some remarkable photographs of what happened after WW2 ... and he doesn’t mean what replaced it!

Visitors are always welcome at LRS meetings.

The brave souls who made it to the Fox station half-way up Caerketton Hill.

The annual LRS Direction Finding Contest was held on Wednesday 8th May 2013 starting from the Braid Hills Hotel. Most of the participants found the Fox station, manned by Peter GM4DTH, but only after a strenuous climb to a grassy knoll half way up Caerketton Hill near the Edinburgh Ski Centre. And what a view as the sun set over the city.

Full report.

At the meeting of the Lothians Radio Society on 24th April 2013 an American-made video of the work of Code Breakers was shown. It described how code breakers shaped major events in the 20th century, including America's entry into WWI through the decoding of the Zimmermann telegram, the cracking of the German Enigma code at GC&CS Bletchley Park during WWII, victory at the Battle of Midway and Japan's Purple Cipher. 

On the Sunday, as well as attending the rally, John GM8OTI worked GM0USI on the Mull of Galloway on 10GHz from the Blackpool sea-front over a sea-path of 148km with only 35mW of SSB.

A group of members of the Lothians Radio Society attended the Norbreck Rally in Blackpool on Sunday, 7th April 2013. Travelling down on the Saturday afternoon, they first enjoyed a merry evening in a local pub where beer was only an amazing £1.80 a pint, and then in the Sunam Indian restaurant for the traditional curry.

Report  / photos by GM8OTI, GM4BYF, GM4HWO.