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By the time you are reading this I will have hopefullystarted to relax as the last two months from both a cluband work point of view have been extremely busy to saythe least. From the club angle it is all part of the enjoymentof putting something back into this great hobby of ours.The negative points though are doing a tremendousamount ofbackground work to find your efforts are notsupported. Yes I do know that it is very much a great factof life. The positive side is seeing what does get achieved;an example of this is our annual junk nigtrt.

That brings me on nicely to what has happened over thelast month. As you are all aware by now a group of clubmembers once again visited Tiree for the IOTA Contest inJuly so all being well the promised report of their exploitsshould be in this month's newsletter. Into August we havehad our Armual Junk Night and this year we raisedi532.30 on the night. This added to what we had raisedalready gives us a grand total of 1986, which has nowbeen sent to our adopted charity the British Heart Founda-tion. Well done and thanks to everyone, for your help, do-nations or just even supporting the event. Moving on towents and issues that as I write this are about to happen(that's the trouble ofpublishing dates you can't cover eve-rything). First of all is a meeting with Tommy MenziesGMIGEQ about helping this year at the Scottish Conven-tion. I know a few have offered their help and I will keepyou posted on what the outcome is. Next is the meeting

about a repeater. This I feel will be raising quite a fewpoints so look for a summary of this meeting in a futurenewsletter or if time allows maybe an addition to this one.Lastly this month is Lighthouses Weekend which I am nodoubt will have been another real fun weekend. The onlyother itenL which affects me personally, is that t will havestarted my 6ft Novice Class. It is hard work but very ful-filling.

To this month there are only two items planned. The firstis that we are putting on a Demonstration Station at Lass-ri;ade tfgh School for the Scouts. and secondly helping atthe Scottish Convention (see the events column for full de-tails). Basically a very quiet month and one I am lookingforward too. Also there are a few club members going tothe Leicester Rally so if you are interested in joining usplease get in touch and we can fill you in with all the de.tails.

Lastly to the future and it concerns our Christmas NightOut on Saturday 27fr November (proposed date at the mo-ment). I need to find out from you and a decision made byClub Nght on tlre l"'October on what you want to do toenable me to book the necessary.

That's it from me this month with a once again thanks andwell done for what you all helped to raise for our adoptedcharity. Enjoy the newsletter and events..,.

Bob GM4UYZ

BRITISH IIEART TOUNDATION PRESENTATION

The official presentation of the money (1961) raised thisyear by the Club to the British Heart Foundation will takeplace during the October Club Night, lst October, at20:00 in the Lounge Bar of the Thorntree [nn.I hope that you all can make an effort to be there on timeto see the presentation take place.

(Accounts are shown on page 5)

NEW Tf,LEPHONE NUMBER

For information I have recently had my mobile numberchanged so if you ever need to contact me via my mobilephone the new number is:

07867836488

OVERHf,ARD ON A YORKSHIRE RtrPEATER

Ham l) I just cannot get rid of these damn IcomsHam 2) How many do you have ?Ham l) There are about 12 Icoms all togetherHam2) Have you tried putting them in the bucket ?Ham 1) Yes, but I can't pick them up.Ham 2) Can you notjust drag them over to the bucket anddrop them in ?Ham l) No, I can't move them.

At this stage, half of the known world broke in offering totake some of these Icoms offhis hands.....including me.A series of hilarious overs then took place, during whichtime a truly embarrassed Yorkshire Amateur apologisedfor his mispronunciation of the Windows 95 system.

Cockenzie & Port Seton A.R.C.

IlIIIIITEUR ANAGIITTIIIS

Hello again and welcome to another Amateur Anagrams. I'm generating these a month at a time as I'm not getting the chanceto stockpile any at the moment so I hope the quality is still OK! Anagrams ofwords with an Amateur Radio link are given be-low. When you figure out what the words af,e, they can be entered horizontally in the grid provided. Any black squares repre-sent spaces between words. When the grid is completed correctly you should have another word in the highlighted verticalbox. Good luck...

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This months clues are...I, AN ODD BARB, 2. IAN IN7. ODDLY AMUM

LOTUS, 3. TT AERONAUT, 4. OF WATERS, 5. SCARCELY LO, 6. C EROTIC TELLY,

AUGUST 1999 ANSWERS1. cRowBA& 2. TELEPHObIY,3. POLARITY,4. MICROWAVE,5. WAVEMETER,6. FERRITE,7. WIRELESS

The vertical word last month was "ROTATES".73 Colin (cM0CLFl)

TUNK NIGHT

This year we undertook our Sixth AnnualJunk Night and glad to say that theweather once again was very kind to us,as earlier in the day there had been nu-merous very, very heavy showers.The numbers that came via the door thisyear saw a small increase from 1998'sJunk Night where a 151 came through, to154 this year so hopefully the trend willcontinue to stay in the upward direction.I must admit looking around the hall thisyear it did seem a great deal busier than itdid last year, I don't know if it was be-cause people stayed longer or not butwhat ever the case was it was great tosee. I even know that people had trav-elled from as far as Oban to attend whichis a good 3 hours drive from Port Seton.It was great to see that once again Rose& Norrie of Tennamast continued to giveus their support on the evening, unfortu-nately Bill & Betty of Jaycee couldn't bewith us as it was Bills 50ft Birthday but asalways I am most grateful for their dona-tions to our Raftle. Also I should mention

that the Thorntree Inn also kindly do- f136.77). This added ro what we hadnated to our Raffle as well for the sup- raised before Junk Night gives us a grandportthatweglvethemovertheyear. total ofS98l, which has now been do-Just before the raffle the Presentation of nated to the British Heail Foundation.the Tennamast (Frank Hall Memorial) Thanks goes to everyone for all the effortTrophy presented to the Leading Scottish put in to raise the money as it really is go-Station in the Practical Wireless @W) ing to a tremendous cause. For your in-QRP contest which took place in June of formation since we started we have nowthis year. Glad to say that once again the raised a grand total ofs45l9, not bad forClub managed to retain the trophy, al- a "wee" radio club.though not won by the usual group led by Lastly I would like to say a personalColin GM0CLN, but won this year by thanks to everyone who helped put theDavid GM4wLL. David is a very worthy Junk Night together. To sylvia 2MIFMXwinner as he puts in a tremendous effort ensuring that no one will pass at the doorto support and promote many of the and also selling the raffle tickets. ToVHFruHF contests from Scotland. Con- Yvonne, Tracy, Liz and Margaret whogratulations David from everyone at the worked hard behind the refreshmentsclub. Beth Hall, Frank's widow, then pre- counter and lastly to everyone whosented the trophy, to David. handed Food or rafile prizes in. WithoutBefore the raffle was drawn I announced this sort of help this type of event wouldwhat I thought we had raised this year at never happen. So again thanks.the event, just over the J,350, before Iain WELL DONE E\fERYONE FOR ALowis of the British Heart Foundation vERY SUCCESSFUL JL|NK NIGHTthanked us for our continuing support for AND FLrND RAISING YEAR.them. The actual figure that we raised onthe night was f,532.30 (Raffle f 118, Foodt123.53, Door tl54 and Donations

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Bob GM4UYZ


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An effort to make the first transatlantic QSO on2 meters has come up dry.

The auempt by teams in Newfoundland andScotland to confirm a transatlantic contact on 144MHz and secure the kish Radio Transmitters Soci-ety's Brendan Trophies ended a day early on July 3.The attempts began June 26.

"We operated until Saturday July 3 as the UKteam wanted to get their gear down as bad weatherwas setting in," said Paul Piercey, VOlIlE, theleader of the Newficundland team. "There was noth-ing heard, but a couple reports of others listeningwere received." Piercefs group operated from St

John's, Newfoundland, using the call sign VOIAA.The station was set up in Cabot Tower, where Mar-coni received the first transatlantic sigrral in 1901.

The Scottish group, led by Bill Ward, GMOICF,operated from Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on fud-namurchan Point--the most westerly point in themainland British Isles. The group used the call sign2S0ICF/P.

The IRTS's Brendan Trophies will be awardedto the first two stations to make a verified contactacross the Atlantic Ocean using 144-146 MHzwithout aid of manmade reflectors, repeaters ormoonbounce.

(Taken from tha ARRL newsletter lSth July)

4M transverter. Enter disaster number ating and with Cambell loggng we weretwo. I had brought everything but the soon catching up on what we missed.FT290. I just could not beliwe this and The first hour was very busy beforethe contest now started. A quick phone Colin had to depart. He said " That's thecall to Ron GM4IKU to see if he could easy bit done I can now go home". Hego to my shack and bring up my FT290 wasn't far from the truth as after that thebut alas his phone was continually en- QSO rate dropped dramatically. Ourgaged. Off I went home to retrieve the longest contact turned out to be G4YPC/radio and on route having to do a real P in IO7OID TR a total of 661 kilome-emergency stop as a young lamb ran out tres. It took about half an hour to workin front of mg forhrnately I didn't hit it this and once again it was successful duebut enter disaster number three. My flask to the advantages of CW. They say CWof coffee shot of the seat and ended up is of no value? Take note on that con-smashing to pieces. They do say things tact. we eventually decided to call it ahappen in three's.Anyway as I reached day with about 30 minutes of the contestthe top of the Hill before you descend to go as for over an hour previous wedown offthe Lammermuir's I once again had worked absolutely no contacts andphoned Ron GM4IKU. This time I was the band had also just gone completelysuccessful and he agreed to pick up my dead.radio and do a half way meet with an with only cambell and myself left weagreement to hook up on 2M. As I was struggled to dismantle the station, whichtravelling down I eventually hooked up game down surprisingly easy with thewith Ron on 2M with the help of Tom struggling due to the wind. At 16:00GM4LRU who relayed conversations Ross swl- arived to help us do the finalback and forth until we started to actu- dismantling before hitching up the towerally hear each other. Eventually I met up and departing the site.with Ron just outside Pencaitland whereI duly collected the radio followed by a In total we worked 4l stations (l 136gfew verbal sayings! points/I(m), 39 multipliers (5 countriesBack I went to the contest site aniving & 34 postal Districts) giving us a scoreback at I l:10, a quick set up and on the of 443352. The furthesi nX wasair. c4ypc/p in IO7OID TR at 66lKMs.Whilst I had had been away I had passedcolin GM0CLN, his father Bob Even after all the toils and tribulationsGM0Bwu and young craig on their we certainly had a good day, enjoyed byyay up to the site. I just hadn't seen all that took part. Hopefully next ye* ifthem also on my return with the FT2}}I we enter the contest we can have a faulthad passed John MM0CCC going home free one.as he had only originally come up to help

NSGB ?OI}IHZTNOPHY GONTEST

gtr" trucusr lgggThe decision was taken again this yearthat we would once again try this contestand hope that we could achieve morethan l-watt output. The rezults from afaulty transverter in last years attempt.Oh dear we must be really doomed whenit comes to taking part in this contest asdisasters again descended down on usthis year.Everything started of fine as JohnMM0CCC and myself descended onCambells MMIAVA house at 07:30,packed the cars and made our way to thefarm where we picked up John's 60 foottrailer tower aniving safely onsite at08:45. On arrival we busied ourselveserecting the aerial, tower and tent beforefinally setting out the equipment. Enterdisaster number one. We decided to usemy FTl02 along with the MicrowaveModules 4M Transverter and the Micro-wave Modules 4M Linear. Whilst con-necting up the PTT lines to the trans-verter a mighty "Spark" appeared al-though no power was on the Transverteror Linear, sadly the FT102 was poweredyet why it drew a spark I just don'tknow. The result of this was that wheneverything was coupled up there was ab-solutely no RF coming out of the Trans-verter and yes it was PTT'ing ok. Lastyear, no PTT and very, very minimal RFout, this year PTT and no RF out. Arewe blessed or are we blessed?No problem says I. I have the back up us set up. Bob GM4UYZsystem of my FT290 and RN Electronics Back to the contest. Colin started oper-


Everyone's Free (To Wear corduroy)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the RAE class of '99Wear corduroy.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, corduroywould be it. The long-term benefits ofcorduroy have beenproved by scientists, whoreas the rest ofmy advice has no ba-sis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and quality of your station.Oh never mind, you will never understand the power and thequality ofyour station until it has packed up.But trust mq in twenty years, you will look back at your logand recall in a way you can't grasp now, how much DX lay be-fore you and how fabulous your station sounded.

The band is not as flat as you imagine.

Don't worry about interference or worry that knowing thatworrying is as effective as tryrng to lower SWR by rubbinglard into your antenna.The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that nevercrossed your worried mind, like gales at 4 a.m. on some idleTuesday morning.

Do one thing every day that scares your neighbours.

Call.

Be generous with other peoples' reports; don't put up withpeople who are mean with yours.

Solder.

Dont waste your time on pile ups.Sometimes you're heard,sometimes you're in the noise.The bands are crowded and in the end,it's only another contactRemember the 5 by 9s you receive, forget the 4 by ls.If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.Keep your old QSL cards throw away your old license renew-als.Tune.Don't feel guilty that you don't know what to say on top band.The most interesting people I know don't use top bandsome of the most interesting hams I know don't use IIF at all.

Use low loss coax.

Respect Morse keys.You'll miss then when they're gone.

Maybe you'll work \{K, maybe you won't.Maybe you'll work moon bounce, maybe you won't.Maybe you'll stay QRP, maybe you'll melt your antennasrunning enough power to light a small city

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much

or berate yourself either.Your contacts are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your hobbyUse it every way you can.Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it.It's the greatest hobby you'll ever have.

Log. Even if it makes boring reading to everybody but your-selflRead the instructions even if they are in Japanese.Do not read electronics magazines, they will only make youlook boring.

Get to know your RIS inspector You never know when you'llneed him on your side.Be nice to your neighbours They are less likely to complainabout your mast and report you to the councilUnderstand that friends come and go,But a iirecious few will lend you their ladders.

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and languagefor as the older you get, the more you need the few words youlearnt in French class

Be QRV on 23 Cm's once but drop it before it causes braincancerBe QRV on 4 meters once but drop it before it makes youlonely.

Test.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Computers will take over.Radios will get more complicated. you too will get old andwhen you do, youll fanaticise that when you were young,computers had their uses radios were simpleand class B's respected class As.

Respect G2's.

Don't expect aluminium to support your antennasMaybe you'll have a scaffold pole maybe you'll have a latticetower but you'll never know when either of them will collapse

Don't mess around in your radio or by the time you've finishedsomeone else will have to fix it.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with thosewho supply it.Advice is a form of selling.Dispensing it is a way of wishing you to purchase somethingyou don't need.Cleaning it up.Glossing over the scratches and selling it for more than it'sworth.

But trust me on the cordurov.

By Darren G7HOC.

(taken from LTK Amateur news pages)

Cockenzie & Port Seton A.R.C. Page

URGENT, URGENT GHRTSTMIIS ltIEAL

It is that time of year again when my thoughts are looking at what do we want to do for our Christmas Night Out. The datethat I have pencilled in is Saturday 27* November. I have purposely stayed clear of December, as I know that it is the timewhen most people at their work have their own works parties.

Anyway what do you want to do this year? Do you want to go back to the Ship Inn, Port Seton for a meal and Disco (I haveapproached them again to obtain a price) or do you want to go for a meal, if so what type? Or what else would you like to do?I would like to get your views really as soon as possible but by Club Night on the ld October at the latest, If a decision ismade and we know the costs then all the money by Club Night on the 5h November. This really does help me no end if this isachieved, as on the night I just want to enjoy myself and not worry about chasing money.

Thanks in advance for your prompt replies.

Bob GM4UYZAGGOUNTS

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EVENTS GOI.UMilHere is the latest list for your diaries. ..

SEPTEMBER3rd Club night in the Thorntree Inn, port Seton, 7pm till late

4l5th l44MJIz Trophy Contest 1400UTC Saturday untilI400UTC Sunday. Not sure if there wilt be an entry from a localsite but John MM0CCC plans to enter from somewhere inNorth Yorkshirel

llth Demonstration Station at Lasswade High School, Bon_nyrigg, l2:00-l 8:00 local time.This event is for the visit of the Chief Scout for the UK to theScouts and Venture Scouts of Scotland. Helpers will be re_quired so contact Bob GM4UyZ for more info

18th GMDX Convention, the GMDX Groups very own con-vention which will be heldin the King Robert Hotel, Stirling andstarts at 12.30. Aftemoon lectures include "Antennas ForThe DXer" by Chris GM3WOJ and "The ZLgcIExpedition,, byDeclan EI6FR. The latter lecture incrudes the first trK showinjof theZL9CI expedition videoMn the eveninsthe GMDX Group annual dinner will take ptac-e. entry I,5 con-vention andtl4 dinner.

l9th Scottish Amateur Radio Convention (SARCON),f-nc|9tg-a Pavilion, Ingliston. Doors open i0,:0u* (lOam for{1saUt9A) until 5pm. Further info from to-rny MenziesGMIGEQ on Tel.No .013t 445 3g}g.

24/25th Leicester Amateur Radio & Electronics Exhibition afew from the club normally travel to this event so ask around forinfo.

OCTOBERlst Club night in the Thorntree Inn, port Seton, 7pm till late

lSth Video Night in port Seton Community Centre MeetingRoom (upstairs) from ?.30pm-9.30pm Videos should be ,,AlrialCircus G6CJ" and ',satellite Fuji". Normal f I entry applies.

24th Galashiels Rally, Volunteer Hall, St Johns Street, Ga-lashiels. Traders, bring & buy, tables to sell your own junk etcelc. Doors open at I lam (disabled l0. 5amj and admission isI1.50 (incl entry to prize draw). Contact JimGMTLI_IN@GBTJED or [email protected] for fur_ther info.

NOVEMBER5th CIub night in the Thorntree Inn, port Setorq 7pm till late

6/7th l44l\/ftIz CW Marconi Contest from 1400UTC Saturdayuntil 1400UTC Sunday. John MM0CCC is very keen to put anentry together for this one. Let him know ifyou are interested.

r2th GMDXGroup AGM

l9th "Contesting,, a talk by Tom Wylie GM4FDM. Starts7.30pm in Port Seton Community Centre

27th Proposed date for the club Christmas Meal,

DECEMBER2629 RSGB VHF Christmas Cumulative Contests

*f NOTE *** TIfi CONTESTS ABOVE WHICH REFER TOTHIS NOTE ARE THOSE WHICH TI{E CLT,B "MAY',TAKE PART IN. THOSE WITH NO REFERENCE TO THISNOTE ARE ALREADY DEFIMTES.

I hope you all enjoy SARCON'99 at Ingliston. See you againnext month.

73 de Colin (GMOCLI.[)

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Contact Colin GM0CLN for further information

Cockenzie & Port Seton A,R.C,

flnnrral Tables Update lls Of lSth[rrgrrst 1999

Quite a busy month this time resulting in somegood additions as well as some not so good ones,because people have been too busy! The main in-creases were due to the RSGB Islands On The Air(IOTA) contest on24th/25th July on the non-WARC bands. Some gained from the associatedactivity before and after the contest too. Here ishow everyone faired...

The workload for Bob GM4UYZ isat its peak withlots of club events, Novice Class preparations andof course normal work to pay the bills! There hasbeen little progress as a result, however, Bob stillmanaged the following new ones during the IOTAContest weekend... 3.5MI{z : N.Ireland(Gl), Scot-land(GM), Wales(GW) and Poland(SP). A total offour more on FIF.

Ron GMONTL didn't manage to benefit from theincreased IOTA weekend activity as he was onTiree taking part in the main club entry 2A0CCC|P. He still managed a few new IOTAs after return-ing from Tiree though! Despite this and continuingradio problems with his IC775DSP progress hasstill been made. Ron did turn up an interestinganomaly though. He worked 4UlVIC in Viennaand as he says it "does NOT seem to qualify for ta-bles somehow". Upon investigation I found in thatthe RSGB prefix guide that 4UIWC in Vienna and4UIWB in Washington DC only count for theirown countries (OE and W) whereas 4UIITU is atotally separate DXCC entity. Rons new oneswers... 7tfr12: Estonia(ES); laMFIz : Sri Lanka(4S), Azores(CU), Philippines(Du), Balearic Is(EA6), Liechtenstein(FlB0), Bosnia Herzegovina(T9); lSMHz : St Paul Is(CY9), Liechtenstein(FIB0 ) ; 2 lNftIz : Zambia{9J ), Paki stan(AP ), Arme -nia(EK); 241\frIz: Ceuta & Melilla(EA9), Turkey(TA), India(W); z9i|lftlz : French Guiana(FY). Ahealthy increase of 16 on Ftr.

A quiet month forDavid GM4WLL. One new4msquare during the 7OMFIz Trophy Contest and anew 10m square on QRP CW during IOTA. Theywere... 281\frIz : Poland(SP); 70MHz : JO03(G),An increase on I on FIF and 1 on WIF.

There is no update from the "Shack By The Sea"this month as Wallace MM0AMV is in the midst ofa shack refurbishment program. Hopefully we willhave an update from the "Shack By The Sea Mk2"next month.

A half size G5RV was added at the QTH of JohnM0BEX for the IOTA contest weekend and re-sulted in a few new ones. He also dusted offhisCW cobwebs and managed some QSOs on lOMFfu.His new points this month were as a result of...3.5MHz : Germany(Dl), France(F), England(G),Isle of Man(GD), N lreland(Gl), Scotland(GM),GuernSey(GU), Wales(GW), Belgium(ON), Neth-erlands(PA), Sweden(SM); TMHz : Jersey(GJ),Guernsey(GU); lOMFIz : Germany(Dl), Switzer-land(IIB9 ), France(F) ; | 4l\ltrfz : B alearic Is@A6 ),Estonia(ES), Kyrghistan(Ex), Wales(GW), Sar-dinia(S)" Aland Is(OH0), Netherlands(PA), Greece(SV), Uzbekistan(UJ), Canada(VE); I SMHz : Eire(EI), France(F), Luxembourg(LX), Bulgaria(LZ),Aland Is(OH0), Asiatic Russia(UA9), Macedonia(23); zllvfrIz : Malta(9H), Kuwait(9K), Armenia(EK), Denmark(O Z), Kazakhsta(tlN). Heading upthe table as a result of 38 additions on F{F.

I too was on Tiree for the IOTA weekend and to-gether with lots of other things happening this hasresulted in no improvement at GM0CLN over thelast month. Not a satisfactory situation but one Ihope to rectif, soon!

Finally, a very hurried update, consisting only ofnew totals, was received from Jim MM0BQI thismonth just before he left on a business trip. As aresult I don't have exact details of Jim's new onesbut I can tell you how many there are on each band.The increases have been almost exclusively due toJim's trip to Benbecula (EU-010). This was mainlyto enter the IOTA contest and Jim says that duringthe whole trip he managed 1000 QSOs. The in-creases were therefore as follows...3.51vfrI2 .6more;7ll/ftIz:9 more; lOMIfz: I more; I4WIz:24 more;zl}./frIz: 18 more; 24\/ftIz: I more;2&\/frIz: 10 more. A huge increase of 69 on FIF....Iguess it was a good contestl

Thanks for your continuing support with the tables

Cockenzie & Port Seton A.R.C. Page I

and please make sure that I receive your next updates by Wednesday 15th September at the latest.

Good DX',73 and I'll see you again next month.

Colin GM0CLN

VHF/UHF Scores are the total number of DXCC countriss and Maidenhead locator squaft$ worked on eech band.

Cockenzie & Port Seton ARC Annuql HF l3ble AsPf 18th Auoust 1990

HF Scores are the lotal number of DXCC countnes worked on each band

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ffileart Foundation

1,9 August 1999

Dear Bob

lfank you very much indeed for sending in that magnificent cheque for{961,-0a which you and the other members of the cJckenzie & p-ort setonAmateur Radio Club have raised this year for the British Heart Foundation.Our official receipt is attached.

It amazes me how you manage to raise these funds which have increased eachyear and, being in the business, I am very aware of how much time and effort isrequired to get such results.

i look forward to coming to receive the "presentation cheque" on Friday 1october, and will contact the local press to cover the event.

Thank you and all the members of your club for the much appreciared andvery valuable support given to the Brit ish Heart Foundation.

Yours sincerelyt(0"'*.

Iain LowisDirector for Scorland

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