JOTA
A few of the members that took part in Jamborie on the Air with 7th Lincoln Scouts.
Continue reading →Surplus Equipment Sale – Refreshments
It is by popular demand that we are putting on hot dogs and mushy peas at the Surplus Equipment Sale on Wednesday 29th October. Tea and coffee will also be available during the evening.
Continue reading →Surplus Equipment Sale
There will be a Surplus Equipment Sale on Wednesday 29th October 2014 in the BSA Village Hall, Aisthrope, LN1 2SG. The photos below show a few of the items being sold and some of the visitors to the surplus equipment sale in April this year. Booking in will commence at 1900 hours with the sale starting at 2015 hours.
Continue reading →Heckington Windmill
A few members of the club (2E0LOT, M0KWM, M5ZZZ and G4XFC, spent Saturday and Sunday putting on a special event station at Heckington Mill.Heckington Windmill is the only 8-sailed tower windmill still standing in the UK with its sails intact. It was built in 1830 to plans by millwright Edward Ingeldew and has six storeys called “floors”: ground floor, meal floor, stone (stage) floor, lower bin floor, upper bin floor (hoist floor), dust or cap floor. Photos ‘stolen’ from the Club’s Facebook page.
Continue reading →Gyr Saker Arabian Falcon
Above, a very popular visitor to Lincoln Short Wave Club, a Gyr Saker Arabian Falcon, which was brought to the club by Steve, G1PPA. It is hoped to arrange for Steve to give a talk to the club early in 2015.
Continue reading →Intermediate Examination
An Intermediate Course was successfully completed when David Kelly, Tom Williams, Victoria Williams and Fiona Farrer passed their exam which was held in the BSA Village Hall at Aisthorpe on Sunday 7th September 2014. Pictured l-r are David M6FSB, Tom M6TMO, Ian G4XFC (Course Instructor), Vicki M6VKW and Fiona.
Continue reading →Intermediate Course
The Intermediate Course is on schedule with practical work and assessment being carried out at the shack today, 10th August. Pictured are Ian G4XFC (Instructor), David M6FSB, Victoria M6VKW and Tom M6TMO.
Continue reading →Shack Painting
Relaxing in the shack before work commenced. For the amount of people that turned up to help at the shack this morning (26th July) there was a lot of varying activities; washing down the shack, work again on the SteppIR, repairs to the white board and Les found a use for some of the grease in the drum at the end of the shack and greased the trailer mast. After the ends of the shack had been washed down Peter M0EJL and James G0EUN started painting whilst Steve M5ZZZ, Gerry G6KGG, Bob G7AVU and … Continue reading →
Can you bounce signals off rainbows?
Wednesday evening brought this spectacular rainbow to Aisthorpe; we were lucky not to get the storms associated with it.
Continue reading →Who said G4STO’s arials aren’t used?
The above photo shows one of the reasons I don’t go on 2M at this time of the year!
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