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GB80DAM On the Air

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As you know, On the 16th /17th May 1943, 19 Lancaster bombers of the RAF’s 617 Squadron took off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire armed with the now famous Bouncing Bomb invented by Barnes Wallis. See our Special Event Page for more Details. The club put on its special event station from the club shack on the evening of the 16th May 2023. Members of the club, Stephen M5SJM, Steve M5ZZZ, Les G1LQB, Marc M7DEU, Mary G6SWZ, Dave G6EWP, Bob G3VEV, Steve G7JHU & Bob G7AVU made a visit with his Wife Cathleen along with Pam G4STO. If I have … Continue reading →

LSWC Winter Rally

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The Club has held its winter Rally for the second time this year and to was a great success. Welcoming many of you through the door on the 29th Jan. Once the doors opened the room filled with members of the public passing through all of the stalls present including our club stand. A number of people asked about the clubs activities and we also gained some new members. We hope they will join us on the many activities we have planned for the year. We are already planning the next Rally which we are hoping to holder later in … Continue reading →

LSWC Winter Radio Rally 2023

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We are pleased to announce our Winter Radio Rally is returning on Sunday 29th January at the Festival Hall in Market Rasen. The Festival HallCaistor RoadMarket RasenLN8 3HT Doors open at 10am with disabled visitors gaining access at 9.30am. With entry being £2, Cash Only. Extra parking available on the Market Place, John St Carpark and on Mill lane. Talk in on 145.375MHzStalls include Canny Components, Mirfield Electronics. With plenty more smaller vendors and clubs in attendance. Food and drink is available:Bacon or sausage sandwiches with tea or coffee £4 Tea or coffee £1Cold drinks £1 If you wish to … Continue reading →

Hamfest 2022

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As many of you will know we have just had the National Hamfest 2022 and as one of the contributing clubs we had members there as part of the the volunteering team. But this year we had an addition to what we normally do. This year we had a dedicated club stall to promote the club to other radio amateurs. Setup As usual, setup for the event started on the Wednesday before with a number of members helping travelling via the club to assist loading the equipment before continuing on to Newark Showground. This year had some changes to the … Continue reading →

BBQ Night At The LSWC

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Wednesday night was one of the popular BBQ evenings hosted at the LSWC shack. A big thanks goes out to Pam, G4STO, for organising the event and getting all the food stocks in. And also to Steve M5ZZZ for manning the chef duties on the grill. Running from 7.30pm many members turned out to enjoy the food and drinks on offer. Even members from the local RAF Waddington Club attended as is the norm with us being us invited to each others social events.

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Mills on the Air 2022

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This Weekend the club took part in Mills on the Air by activating Ellis Mill in Lincoln. We started out the day with a healthy breakfast after having to arrive early due to the Cycle race being held in the city. So it was off to the local café. But soon it was back to the job in hand and now the gate was opened up it was time to get the station set up. Ove the course of the day a total of 116 QSO’s were made on Both HF and VHF so a thankyou goes out to all … Continue reading →

A Journey, The Invictus Games and Archery

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On Wednesday night, Mick M6OYP, a member of or club gave a talk on his journey with the Invictus games and Archery. Starting at 7:30pm members of the club moved into the village hall where Mick talked through his presentation on the Invictus Games and how he had applied to volunteer at the next Games in 2022. Mick then went on to tell the story of how a chance meeting of the members of the Invictus Games GB team turned into a new found joy of Archery with the intention of taking his initial competition wins further by training to … Continue reading →

A talk on Half Wave End Fed Antennas

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Earlier this month Steve, M5ZZZ, gave a talk to the members on End Fed Half Wave Antennas. Steve started out by showing a selection of videos produced by Waters & Stanton. Steve then told us about his own experiences with Half Wave End Fed Antennas and passed round a 49:1 Transformer to show how easily one could be made. It is hoped that from this talk members will be encouraged to go out and try building there on EFHW even if it is used as an easy portable setup.

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Surplus Equipment Sale and Friday afternoon at the shack

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To try and make the Surplus Equipment Sale Covid safe, the lots will be displayed in a marque with the sides open to allow for plenty of ventilation and the sale will be in the village hall with socially distanced seating and all doors open again allowing for plenty of ventilation. Your safety is our priority. To achieve this the lads went to the club this afternoon to erect the marquee (big tent really) ready for displaying the lots tomorrow. Booking in of equipment will be from 12 noon with the sale starting at 2 p.m.  Usual refreshments will be … Continue reading →

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 →