Thank you to all the team that were able to help provide safety communications cover at this multi-distance event. There were 220 riders taking part and only a limited number of issues to deal with. This was mostly related to a change in course layout made following heavy rain. However by 10:00 we were all where we needed to be to monitor the activity.
We ran an amateur net on 144.650MHz and a PMR net for several non Raynet volunteers.
It is with with great sadness that we have to report that Kevin Firth G7WGL (Big Kev/Wiggle) went silent key on Monday 2nd August 2021.
He was a big character with a heart of gold and will be very much missed at all the events he supported. Over the years he always went the extra mile to help people. Kindness costs nothing and he gave it all the time.
Thank you to all the group that took part in the Norfolk Resilience Form virtual exercise on 17th June. Highlights included a test of a Whats App group for group alerting and a really good availability level if it had been a real call.
The exercise centred around a severe weather event that had power outages around Norfolk. We were asked to provide communications from several village halls set up as places of safety back, to the emergency control room in King’s Lynn for the emergency planning team. The scenario does lend itself to more thought outside of the exercise about how we could achieve the links using minimum equipment and personnel.
The groups AGM took place on Saturday 21st November via Skype. There was a good turnout of members. Re – election of the group officers took place with G1SCQ, G4OKH and M3MPD staying in post.
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