Watson's Radio Club
This is the website for former members of the Radio Club at George Watson's College in Edinburgh.
It is independent of George Watson's College.
It contains all the photographs and history of the club that are available, and news of reunions.
If you have anything that could go here, please send it in to Contact Us!
73 de Alan Masson GM3PSP / K6PSP (class of 1962).
2022-09: New photograph of 1974-75 club members from Ken Ovens,
ex-GM8IRZ/GM4FBX:
Rear: Lawrence Williamson, Ken Ovens (Treasurer) GM4FBX, Gavin Brown (President) GM8IOG,
Roger McKinlay (Secretary) GM4FDU, Malcolm Nimmo GM8JVZ.
Front: Peter Doyle, Ian Prescott GM8KRL, Ian Kerr-Hunter GM8KYL, John Dunning.
Standing in front of 3-element HF multiband yagi and "4 over 4" 2m antenna.
SILENT KEY - Howard F Orgel G8DUT in July 2022 in Manchester (RadCom Sept 2022)
NEWS: during the coronavirus shutdown in spring 2020, Alan Masson contributed a short history of the Radio Club to the new Watsonians-Linked site. click to access). Click to access. Click to access.
NEWS: additional photos from Bob Dalgleish (ex-GM3ZVB) added to:
Photographs - 1970s Portable Contests
and 1972 GB3GWC UK Tour & Itinerary provided by Ed Bain GM4AIS
The following two photographs of club members were provided by Peter Griffiths via David Guest.
This nice, but rather obviously posed photo was published in the Illustrated London News on July 12th, 1958, p.76.
L-R: Chilton Inglis; John Venters; unknown; and the late George Czekalowski,
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This Radio Room photo with members grouped around Tom GM3BCD was published on the front page of the Weekly Scotsman, No. 5166, vol.99, May 31st, 1958. A party of Russian students had been visiting the school and one of them agreed to try to contact Watson's over the air from the Moscow University radio club. It's not recorded whether a QSO was achieved!
Standing: Robin Brown, Alec Blanc, James Speirs, Michael Wright, Gilbert Williamson and George Czekalowski. Sitting are Victor Muir and John Gordon, and of course John Hughes GM3LCP standing at the rear.