There was an active Radio Club at Stewart’s during the 1960s run by former pupil Jim ‘Nick’ Nicholson GM3FJP / VU2JP after he returned to Edinburgh from many years in India. There was some overlap of membership with the Signals Section of the Stewart’s Combined Cadet Force CCF). Not listed from 1974, presumably after Nick became a Silent Key (actual date not known).
A second callsign, GM8EWQ is listed in the 1970s, possibly obtained by club members after Nick’s SK prevented further use of GM3OLQ. The following note was published in the Short Wave Magazine in August 1971:
“News from GM: The VHF “get-together,” held this year in Cupar, Fife, seems to have been a great success. Some 30 souls attended, including a few HF men who had come along to see what it was all about, and whom we are assured by GM8BZX, went away suitably impressed. Raffle tickets for the prizes were drawn by GM6RI and GM8EWQ, as holders of the oldest and the newest licence among those present”
L-R: Vic Stewart GM3OWU, Nick Nicholson GM3FJP (SK), Jim Watt GM3PFY (SK 2016).
At least one National Field Day was operated from the Stewart’s Inverleith playing fields in the 1960s in collaboration with the Lothians Radio Society.
No other photos known. Can anyone help?