Category Archives: East Kirkby

August visit to the Radio Room at East Kirkby

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Today Thursday the 17th of August was our scheduled visit to the Radio Room at East Kirkby. Club members Steve M5ZZZ, Steve G7JHU, Brian G4HIV and Dave G1WVO all met up in the NAFFI before opening the radio room. We had a steady flow of visitors through the Radio Room although there were no taxi runs today due to the very busy Bike Night last night. Brian G4HIV netted up the vintage pair when we noticed a small fault when the transmitter changed from transmit to receive there was a loud crack in the headphones which we will try and … Continue reading →

June Visit to East Kirkby

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It was a lovely sunny morning on Thursday 15th June when Lincoln Short Wave Club met at East Kirkby for their monthly opening of the Radio Room. Sadly, club chairman Steve M5ZZZ was unwell and was unable to attend. Club members Ant M0HAZ and his wife Sylvia M0SJB, Steve G7JHU, and David G1WVO were available to talk to those visiting the Radio Room. David G1WVO completed the repairs to the Vintage Lancaster radio equipment by fitting a revamped headphone, morse key lead and antenna lead. The vintage equipment was switched to standby which allowed it to warm up and stabilize. … Continue reading →

Repairs to the T1154 at East Kirkby

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Today Thursday 18th May 2023 Steve M5ZZZ and David G1WVO met up with Steve G7JHU from Chapel St Leonards and Ant M0HAZ from Woodhall Spa in the NAAFI at East Kirkby prior to opening the Radio Room (GB2CWP).  The museum was very busy with visitors with Lancaster and Mosquito taxi runs programmed for the day.  Steve M5ZZZ and Ant M0HAZ had a steady flow of interesting visitors in the radio room.   David G1WVO and Steve G7JHU set about repairing the T1154 after a badly burnt carbon resistor was found in the PT15 grid bias circuit on their last visit. It’s possible with the poor … Continue reading →

Visit to East Kirkby 20th April 2023

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Today Steve M5ZZZ and Dave G1WVO opened the radio room at East Kirkby. The day started by meeting new member Steve G7GHU who travelled from Chapel St Leonards to join us. After a coffee and a chat in the Museum NAFFI the day became quite busy with a steady flow of visitors in the Radio room. The Lancaster taxi season hasn’t started yet there was lots visitors and the car park was very busy. Steve M5ZZZ cleaned and dusted the shack. Then Dave G1WVO and Steve M5ZZZ started to remove the T1154 transmitter from its case to examine why there … Continue reading →

EK Visit 7th July 2022

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Lincoln Shortwave Club Chairman Steve M5ZZZ and David G1WVO travelled across to East Kirkby this Thursday.  After a convivial coffee in the NAAFI they opened the Radio room at East Kirkby. Steve took his own Yeasu FT487 radio and connected it up and a precautionary SWR check was carried out on the new wire antenna which proved to be excellent. It was amazing that as Steve then tuned through the bands there was no apparent noise on the bands which we have been dogged with since reopening the station after lockdown. Steve and David heard only a few stations on … Continue reading →

A nice plaque to display at the East Kirkby shack.

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Dave Bloomfield G0KUC the man behind the super successful GB80LAN Special event stations that took place in March this year commemorating the first operational use of the Lancaster Bomber has kindly donated a Plaque for us to display at East Kirkby marking our clubs participation in the event. Dave being a gluten for punishment is also organising for next May the ##80DAM event where amateur radio clubs in this country and in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and America with connections to the Dambusters will commemorate operation chastise. As our club does every year but on an international scale for this … Continue reading →

Lincoln Short Wave Club runs the SSES GB80LAN

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On the 11th and 12th of March the Club had its second weekend in a row of running a special event station. This time the national special event callsign GB80LAN from the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby. The callsign commemorates the first operational flight of the Lancaster from RAF Waddington 80 years ago this month. This special national call organised by Dave Bloomfield G0KUC is being passed around the three RAF Clubs as well as the home of Just Jane at East Kirkby. The call continues to the end of the month. With Dave himself at Running some … Continue reading →

Guy Martin at East Kirkby

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A team from the club assisted Guy Martin and the TV filming team to do a short ‘Morse sequence’ using the R1155/T1154 (as fitted in the Avro Lancaster bombers during WW2) in the (GB2CWP) Radio Museum ‘Shack’ at East Kirkby and which was a two way communication with a temporary station (GX5FZ) set up at the nearby EK Control Tower.  The filming took place on 20th September 2021.  The team comprised Roger G3PVU, Steve G6TVP, David G1`WVO, Tom G4OSB, Andy K0KED and Peter M0EJL. 

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Filming at East Kirkby

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North One TV, who are in the process of making a programme outlining the design, specification & the crews of the  WW2 Lancaster bomber, asked our club to help with a CW sequence during which their anchor man Guy Martin would familiarise himself with the vintage Marconi R1155/T1154 & send a short message in morse using a ‘bathtub’ key.   Quite a tall order for a man who is an ace on a motor bike but has never touched a morse key in his life before or operate a vintage radio!    Our club team decided to set up a temporary station in the control tower using the call GX5FZ & Guy would communicate with it from our nearby Lancaster facsimile station, equipped with a serviceable R1155/T1154 in our East Kirkby ‘Shack’ using the call GB2CWP.  Guy, as you can imagine, was full of enthusiasm, determination to get the job done to the best of … Continue reading →

GB2CWP on Air

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On Tuesday 21st September Steve M5ZZZ and David G1WVO opened the radio room at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby to visitors.  They had lots of interested people and several took up the offer of trying to send their name in Morse code.  Brian G4HIV also joined the team and operated and demonstrated the R1155/T1154.  The radio room is next open to the public on Tuesday 19th October 2021.. David G1WVO

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