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NEWS FOR SCOTLAND & CLUB NEWS (GB2RS) Extracts inc Additions
MMOHAR SK
On a sad note, we have been advised that MM0HAR, Harry Stuart, a longstanding club member and a previous President of the Moray Firth Amateur Radio Society became a Silent Key this week. He will be greatly missed. mfars.secretary@gmail.com
LOTHIAN TALK
On Wednesday, Lothians Radio Society will be enjoying a talk by Peter, GM8GHQ entitled ‘The First Restricted Service Licence – Personal Experiences’. secretary@lothiansradiosociety.com
IN THE BORDERS
Galashiels and District Amateur Radio Society meets in the Focus Centre, Livingstone Place, Galashiels at 8pm on Wednesdays. Jim Keddie, mail@gm7lun.co.uk
SOLDER SMOKE
West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society will have its usual Solder Group meeting from 6pm on Wednesday. The club will be meeting at 8pm on Friday at its Rose Street club rooms. For more information check out the club’s website via wosars.club & Pat, 2M1CKE Secretary
‘JUNK’ SALE
Moray Firth Amateur Radio Society is holding its Autumn Surplus Equipment Sale this coming Saturday at Roseisle Village Hall, Elgin. The venue will open at 9am for sellers and 11am for the public. The event will include refreshments, free parking and a raffle. The entrance fee is £5 and sellers’ tables cost £10. These may be booked by emailing mfars.secretary@gmail.com
FURTHER NEWS
GM uW ROUND TABLE
The 2023 Scottish Microwave Round Table GMRT, is taking place between 10.30am and 5pm on Saturday the 11th of November at the Museum of Communication, Burntisland, Fife in Scotland. There are still places available to book. An interesting programme of speakers has been arranged and microwave test facilities will be provided. There will also be opportunities to purchase components and microwave-related items. The cost is £12 and this includes a buffet lunch. A dinner will be held in the evening at a local hotel. Online registration is available at gmroundtable.org.uk . For more information email Colin, GM4HWO via gm4hwo@gmail.com
OTHER CLUB NETS AND MEETINGS
Details of club activities can usually be found on the individual club’s websites. A fuller summary of activities, Nets, Contacts and Links in Scotland can also be found at RSGB – GB2RS News for Scotland and the WoSARS NETS Page.
To have your net listed on the WoSARS website or to report any changes, contact Tony, MM0TMZ by email to rr1@rsgb.org.uk. Please also keep GB2RS updated via email to radcom@rsgb.org.uk
Radio Australia’s Shepparton TRansmitting Station
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, who shares the following recording and notes from his excellent website Inches Per Second:
For those of you who like it, here are two more entries in the series of Australian Shortwave [Note: Recording 2 will be published on the SRAA next week], which I've been parceling out from time to time since not long after this blog began. I'm fairly certain the person who recorded these programs lived somewhere in North America, because all of the shows (up until this posting) were from episodes directed at that continent. But additionally, I wonder now if the person lived on the west coast of North America, because he or she made an effort (on the same tape as a show from 9/5/74), to capture Australia Shortwave during a program broadcast towards Asia and the South Pacific. The quality of the connection during that portion is, as you'll hear, quite poor, but it did come in, at a level and quality that I would guess it wouldn't have been received in the eastern half of the continent.
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