The West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society — WELCOME
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: Radio Juventud, Barquisimeto, Venezuela 1970
Frequency: 4.900 MHz
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Notes: Back in the 1970's, many Venezuelan radio stations could be heard throughout the 60 metre band. 5 of these regularly logged here in southern Ontario belonged to La Cadena Venezolana de Radiodifusion. They were Radio Yaracuy, Radio Lara, Radio Universo, Radio Barquisimeto and Radio Juventud, the latter of these recorded in late 1970 on 4900 kHz identifying their AM, SW and FM stations by call letter and frequency in Spanish. Lead in music is the tune "The Age of Aquarius." They were all good verifiers and the cards were quite similar in design.
The Shepparton transmitter site of ABC/Radio Australia
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Bob Purse, curator of the excellent Inches Per Second audio archive and blog. Bob kindly shares the following recording originally made on reel to reel tape. All of Bob’s recordings are lost and found sound, so the only information he has for each recording are the notes included on tape labels and boxes. If you can identify the date or any other information about this recording, please comment.
Bob notes the following about this found piece:
[…]I found yet another Shortwave broadcast in my collection to pass along. In this case, it is again Australian Shortwave, from Spring of 1968. An I will acknowledge right off the bat that the recording quality is abysmal. It starts poorly and gets worse and worse as it goes along. This is actually why I hadn't shared it before. But I thought the time was right to offer it up, terrible quality and all.
NEWS FOR SCOTLAND & CLUB NEWS (GB2RS ) Extracts inc Additions
With Scottish Clubs returning to normal meeting details of club activities can usually be found on the individual club’s website. A summary of activities, Nets, Contacts and Links in Scotland can be found at wosars.club/radio-nets.
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The Scottish Borders Repeater Group is meeting at The Focus Centre, Livingstone Place, Galashiels for its AGM today at 2pm. Please also note that subs will be due for 2022-2023 at the meeting.
Stirling and District Amateur Radio Society is open today for society projects, and next Sunday, there is EME station works.
Glenrothes & District Radio Club has slow Morse receiving practice on 145.425MHz starting at 7.15pm on Tuesday. On Thursday there is a Ragchew and Morse practice from 7.15pm
Livingston & District Amateur Radio Society has a club night at Crofthead on Tuesday from 7.30pm.
West of Scotland Amateur Radio Society has a Solder Group meeting at The Electron Club at CCA, at 6pm on Wednesday.
Lothians Radio Society has hybrid Quick Timed Talks on Wednesday from 7.45pm.
On Wednesday, Inverness & District Amateur Radio Society is holding a SWOP Meet. Bring along and swap or trade your gear with other club members.
Aberdeen Amateur Radio Society has a Work night preparing club gear for field sessions on Thursday. On Saturday and Sunday the 15th, the club will be at the Mills On The Air event at Bellabeg.
Lomond Radio Club, club nights on Thursdays from 7.30pm at the John Connelly Centre in Renton.
On Friday, Ayr Amateur Radio Group meet in-person and via Zoom meeting. The agenda and Zoom link will be posted on the club’s web page.
On Friday WoSARS has a rescheduled talk from the 22nd of April, Applications Using Spectrum Analysers & Tracking Generators by Mark, GM4ISM taking place. Checkout the website, wosars.club, for further details.
The Mid Lanarkshire Amateur Radio Society club meets every Friday from 7pm at Newarthill Community Education Centre, ML1 5JU.
On Friday, Strathclyde Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARCS) meets at 4a Auchengramont Road, Hamilton ML3 6JP.
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