Annual Oban Bash
Saturday 28th February 2009
The 2009 Annual Bash in Oban is on Saturday 28th February.
This year the Bash will be held in a different venue,
the Lancaster Hotel
Further details can be found on www.gm0lra.freeuk.com
Any one who wants to book a room,
please let the hotel know that it is for the radio club evening.
Also to let Shirley/GM0ERV or Stewart/ MM1AVR know
of your intention to be there
so that they know numbers.
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GB2HLB
bicentenary of the birth of
Louis Braille
Terry, GM3WUX will be operating GB2HLB,
from 26th December 2008 to
22nd January 2009,
to celebrate the
bicentenary of the birth of
Louis Braille.
Each QSO will receive a special QSL card depicting
Braille
and raising awareness of the RNIB
A fund raising page for RNIB can be found at www.justgiving.com/louisbraille.
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SOS Week for the RNLI
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution provides a 24-hour life saving service in the seas and waters around the coast of the UK
and Ireland. Saving lives at sea means a requirement for the continuous training and equipping of their
volunteer crews.
SOS Radio Week is the perfect opportunity for
radio amateurs to lend their support to the RNLI.
SOS Radio Week starts at 00.01 on 24th January 2009
and ends at 23.59 on
30th January, the RNLI's own SOS Fund Raising Day.
To take part you can
operate as a team or on your own,
getting as many sponsors as you can
in the lead up to the event,
during the event make as many
contacts as you can and
after the event, convert the sponsors and
contacts made in to money.
Registrations from groups or
individuals can be made at www.sosradioweek.org.uk. |
Story of life of
John Logie Baird
to be told in film
The story of TV inventor, John Logie Baird,
is to be made into a feature length film
One of the list of great Scottish engineers and inventers, John Logie Baird was the first in the world to demonstrate a working television. This was in January 1926 at his laboratory in London's Soho. Just two years later, he presented the first colour transmission. He also created stereo pictures and a form of video recording on disc!
The film is to to be based on the biography, John Logie Baird: A Life, by Malcolm Baird and Antony Kamm, and on over 10 years of research into John Logie Baird's life, which has added significantly to the knowledge of this great Scotsman.
One researcher wrote
"JLB was a quiet, driven, scientific genius who overcame extraordinary obstacles to achieve an astonishing 178 patents in a 20-year career that lie at the heart of every major technology you can think of."
However, we will need to wait patiently, since filming is not due to start until 2010.
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New GB2RS News Reading
from Stornoway
Sunday 10.30 am local time
Jon Hague, GM3JIJ has taken over reading the
40 metre GB2RS News broadcasts
on 7150kHz
LSB at 10.30am local time on Sundays
Martyn Phillips, G3RFX, will act as a back-up reader.
GM3JIJ will welcome reception reports
from the UK and Northern
Europe.
Due to the current sunspot minimum, listeners are unlikely to
hear the reading unless they are more than 400 miles or 650km distant
from Stornoway. UK listeners south
of Birmingham should be successful.
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Paisley YMCA Amateur Radio Club
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