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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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GB2CWP East Kirkby

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As I was traveling to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre early this morning, looking up at the dark cloudy sky, I though of yesterday with all the rain. I thought to myself we were in for another wet day, I was wrong as it turned out very sunny and it was a pleasure to be there. We kept our operation restricted to the 40mtr band but as our operational 1154/1155 in the Radio Room is crystal controlled and the limited frequencies it had were being used, so we had to use the more modern equipment we have there. Although the … Continue reading →

GB2CWP Will be Active on the Monday 4th June

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The Lincoln Short Wave Club Special Event station GB2CWP at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby will be active between 1000hrs and 1600hrs on Monday the 4th of June. We will be operating on all bands using CW and SSB, the T1154/R1155 is limited to only 3 frequencies on 40mtrs CW and will only be used if conditions allow on the 40mtr band. We will be using the more modern equipment on all the other bands.  

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