Edinburgh Radio History – Clubs – GM3HAM – Lothians Radio Society

EDINBURGH & DISTRICT RADIO SOCIETY

Alan GM3PSP / September 27, 2019

The Edinburgh & District Radio Society was likely the very first radio society in Edinburgh at the beginning of the […]

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In prep. On the main building of the Edinburgh Napier University in Colinton Road, near Holy Corner, there stands the

In prep. Founded in about 1991 by Chris X and Alastair Y of Electrical Engineering, with treasurer Joan Senior GM3AEI

In prep. It is believed that the Mary Erskine school had an amateur radio club, run by Physics teacher Bill Marshall

GEORGE HERIOT’S SCHOOL RADIO CLUB George Heriot’s School in central Edinburgh in 1969. History 1923 – Receiving apparatus constructed and

In prep. The Heriot-Watt University Amateur Radio Society GM3WEE was founded in the late-1960s while your scribe was a student

Thanks to former students for their input: David Mackenzie GM4HJQ, Colin Wright GM4HWO and Mike Gathergood G4KFK (via his website).

The LRS has been the principal amateur radio club in the Edinburgh area since 1947, initially with a catchment area

PIONEER RADIO CLUB – GM4AVH (~1972 -1978) This club met at a church hall in Gilmerton on the south side

There was an active Radio Club at Stewart’s during the 1960s run by former pupil Jim ‘Nick’ Nicholson GM3FJP /

The Watson’s Radio Club ran very successfully from the late 1940s to about 1980 thanks to the efforts of