Event Reports

Report from Sandringham Charity Horse Ride 09Oct2016

Thank you to all members that turned out to assist at this event.  We had a very large number of entries with over 200 riders taking part.

We ran a shortened mast with a 2m Slim Jim used to provide the coverage. This was fed from the trusted Kenwood 732 in dualband talk-through mode with 5W on both bands.

Unfortunately the weather got somewhat rainy a couple of times and I know several of the team got more than a little wet!

Thankfully no safety issues of note other than a missing rucksack and a bike that developed a puncture!

 

 

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Report from Hardingham Horse Ride 18th Sep 2016

Thanks to all the team that made the long journey to the other side of Dereham for this event.  It was outside our normal operational area but supporting one of our West Norfolk ride organisers.

We had just 130 riders take part over two routes including some jumps.  One incident required St John Ambulance to attend.

Fortunately the area was easily cover on 5W 2m as the control location was nicely in the centre of the ride.

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Report from Wissey Half Marathon 4th Sep 2016

Thank you to all the members that came out to assist on this one. After a break of a couple of years it all became very familiar again. Good RF coverage from  a high spot in the middle of course meant for a smooth 2m net. Very few issues on the course for St John Ambulance as well which is always welcome.

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Report from Hillington Charity Horse ride

Thanks to members that assisted on this one.  In the end just under 50 riders took part over some parts of West Norfolk that we have never operated in.

Hillington View

Horse boxes…horses…and Norfolk country side somewhere….

Hillington Antenna

Homebrew 2m slim jim on a tripod… it works on 70cm as well!

We ran a slightly modified base arrangement into a shorter tripod mounted aerial.  This proved a wise move as the control location was predominately hard ground and concrete! 2m net of 10w proved more than adequate apart from one location.  However a change of location rectified that (we think shielding effect from damp trees).

 

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Report from Little Massingham Charity Horse Ride 26 June 2016

Thank you to the members that were able to assist at this small horse ride. In the end 52 horses took part over the two main routes. Although some took shortcuts/wrong routes so several tracks were covered outside of the plan!

Because of the control location we were able to cover this well on a 5w 2m net.

The Raynet locations were both on rather fast roads and also one had an unfortunate number of flies present! Just some of the challenges faced.

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