Radio Amateurs Emergency Network (Daventry UK)

2001 Events

Voluntary Communications support for the emergency services.

Primarily, County Emergency Planning officer, Red Cross, St John Ambulance

With all the complications with Foot and Mouth the first event of this year was

The Weedon Run
12 June 2001

 Raynet members Pictured. 
G6EGO , 
  2E1CZF, 
G8XCD , 
G1ZJK , 
G1DLH 

Some of the RAYNET members are not pictured here as they were deployed on-air without having to go to the control point first.

They were G4SFB and G1VRP .
 

In the Daventry group we pride ourselves on how closely we work with our 'User Services' in this case the Red Cross.
We quite often share vehicles to make the event more efficient.
 
Malcolm Ogle G1 DLH our controller giving us our instructions for this event

As an experiment on this event we had a tape recorder linked to the Talk through unit and recorded all the transmissions.
This was a partial success, the control circuit was meant to turn on the tape recorder only while transmissions were happening.
This was to save tape and remove all the silence periods between transmissions. Unfortunately the relay
was faulty and most of the tape was filled with noise.

There was only one casualty who needed returning to the first aid point. You can hear it HERE (470K) 

Danetre Dawdle
18th August
  Danetre Dawdle

 
 
 

This year Dave G6 EGO used his A.T.C. Cadets to help with partial 
communications and some marshalling.
This appeared to work quite well but just need  to impress upon the
youngsters that over stay on air can cause problems with urgent traffic.
Nevertheless eveything went smoothly 
(radio wise ok -route wise, dont mention it)
Pretty much ok with a couple of concerns ref lost/overdue walkers but all sorted out.
 

                                                                                                               G6EGO 
                                                                                                           G8XCD 
 

 

The Horse Trials

 This event is always the lottery for us. Not that we get a fortune from it but will the event take place and if so where?
We turned up at this years venue beside the A5 near Buckby Wharf knowing that our brief was actually very brief!
We eventually found Margaret who confirmed USUAL.. We liased with starter, time marshall and ambulance then away we went.
If you ask an organiser what they want they really don't know. But if you provide the obvious solution with certain extras you know full well
that next year they will say "same as last time please!!"
This time Dave G6 EGO used his young A.T.C. Cadets to use the event as a training exercise for radio operations.
With them using their frequency and us on ours things worked out pretty perfick.
We had cause to use the First Aid facility on quite a lot of occasions.So to be able to have a mobile beside them proved
a Godsend.  And with a direct link between the time section and starter a constant flow was maintained.A very satisfying event.

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