News

Please note that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, all General Meetings, Rummage Sales and other meetings at Marshall House are currently suspended. Society General Meetings are online. Details are posted in the Calendar as they become available. For security reasons, Zoom links will be sent via e-mail.

Because of Tier 4 restrictions, the workshops are also closed. Online meetings of the Digital Group and Engine Builders’ Groups are continuing as normal.

Further information will be posted on the “Events” page as it becomes available.

Thanks to the good offices of Mike Tilby, the online collection of back issues of The Journal now goes back to 1985, and right up to the latest version hot off the press (December 2020). Many thanks to Mike for his work in scanning back copies which are now easily available to all of us via the web site.

The index to the list of available issues of The Journal is available HERE.

The latest copy of The Journal (December 2020) is now available online. You can see a list of all available online copies of The Journal here.

We believe that recent issues with the web site and email (for example, for password resets and alerts for new forum entries) have now been fixed. There was a configuration issue with the hosting company infrastructure which took time to track down.

Please contact me directly if you have any issues with the web site as I am not always able to see these myself and rely on members to report them. 

Brian Neale
SMEE Webmaster

I believe that the problems causing the web site to be very slow have now been resolved. However, if you have any issues with performance, I would be grateful if you could report them to me at webmaster@sm-ee.co.uk.

Thank you,

Brian Neale
SMEE Webmaster

I have had reports from several members that they have received emails which mention “SMEE” in the Subject: line, usually with mention of a general meeting presentation topic or similar. However, the “Sender” address is unknown to the recipient, and the addresses that I have seen have nothing to do with SMEE members.

I cannot see any obvious connection between these emails and the SMEE website, and the most likely explanation is that a SMEE member, or possibly a non-SMEE member who has a number of SMEE members in their email contact list, has had their email hacked and a copy of their contact list taken. How or when is impossible to tell. Scammers will then use these email addresses to send emails which either have malicious content, or which have pointers to web sites containing malicious code and encourage the reader to click on the link.

The best advice for any email that you receive from an unknown source is to regard it as suspicious unless proved otherwise. In particular, do not click on any attachments in the email or on any links to other web sites unless you are confident that you know the real sender of the email. You can also report suspicious emails to the National Cyber Security Centre; more information on how to spot and deal with suspicious emails is available from their web site here.

Brian Neale
SMEE Webmaster

SMEE uses the AnyMeeting software application to allow members to participate in video-conferences and online meetings. 

To find out how to join an online meeting in SMEE, please go to this page for more information.

We look forward to seeing you online!

We now have an area of the web site dedicated to reports of SMEE competitions. The results of the 2019 Annual Competition, along with pointers to notes on the models concerned, can be found via this page. Congratulations to all competition entrants and especially prize-winners. Even if you were not awarded a prize, there’s a good chance that your entry on display has put ideas into the heads of other members and maybe will inspire them to enter next year!

The Training Course page now has all the dates and prices for the 2020 season. Click on the link for more information, including links to details of each course.