2024 NEWS ITEM ARCHIVE – GM3HAM – Lothians Radio Society

17 Sept 2024 – MoC Goudie Lecture “How 5 became 6” (re D-Day), by Ron Campbell.

SOLAR CYCLE 25 CONTINUES TO SURGE

By Alan GM3PSP / September 6, 2024

Spaceweather.com reports: In August 2024, the average monthly sunspot number exceeded 200 for the first time in 23 years, almost doubling the official forecast.

(Right-click on image to magnify it).

30 June 2024 – SAQ Celebrates 100 Years on Alexanderson Day

09:00 UTC Transmission 17.2kHz

9 June 2024 – GB3EDN 1296MHz beacon – back on-air after maintenance (small frequency drift problem resolved). Tnx Brian GM8BJF

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14 May 2024 – Special LRS Pub Night – Wee Bennets Bar, Morningside Stn.

for Andrew Dozier visiting from USA (Otisco, IN).

Andrew enjoying a pint with Brian and Colin

in Brian’s favourite pub in Peebles on May 24th.

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Wed 15th May 2024 @2:00pm

IET Talk – “The Sinking of the Flying Enterprise – a mystery and a conspiracy theory”

by Angus Annan MM1CCR.

Anturas Consulting, 19 Rutland Square, EH1 2BB

Link to book place (click)

Details: “An adventure on the Atlantic in January 1952 involving an ex-WWII Liberty Ship. This ship had survived the war and was on a voyage from Hamburg to New York when it was hit by a hurricane. The master was Kurt Carlsen, a well-known radio amateur (W2ZXM) on the ten-meter band, and he improvised a radio that was to be a vital link in the drama that followed. Three people showed remarkable courage, as the ship hung between life and death for six days, leaving an enduring mystery and a conspiracy theory.”

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14 May 2024 – US Suffers HF Radio Blackouts After Being Hit by the Biggest Solar Storm of the Current Solar Cycle.