On Wednesday 31st May 2017 the General Manager of the RSGB, Steve Thomas, will be visiting the Lincoln Short Wave Club for an informal discussion and question and answer session.  As usual on these occasions the Club will be open to visitors.  We would welcome participation from other clubs so if you have a question for Steve, come along you will be made welcome.   For visitors new to LSWC meetings; we are meeting in the BSA Village Hall at Aisthorpe, Village Hall Lane. LN1 2SG: 2000 hours for 2015 hours.

On Wednesday 27th January Andrew Garratt M0NRD, Chairman of the South Kesteven Amateur Club, gave an interesting and informative presentation on how to fly high altitude balloons.  Of particular interest was the “Pig in Space” balloon launched at last year’s National Hamfest and the earlier Eggsplorer-1 “Egg in Space” mission. Andrew described the processes involved in design of the payload and trackers.  He also described how to prepare for a flight, obtaining clearance and everything involved in predicting the flight, tracking it and retrieving it. The pictures below show the preparations for the launch, the launch and pig in ‘space’ … Continue reading →

For the last few months I have been playing with an Arduino Duo and found it is well suited for Amateur Radio projects. I have started a new Blog to publish some of these projects and to start with is my current project about remote radio switching of an aerial control box, 2.5 GHz is not Just for Cooking  I hope you enjoy it.

Wednesday evening brought this spectacular rainbow to Aisthorpe; we were lucky not to get the storms associated with it.

Tonight club member Alan M0XVR  A.K.A. George the Porsche gave a very enjoyable and instructional talk on the role of the Airborne Warning and Control System which he was involved with up to recently.