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Welcome To The New GM RAYNET Website
RAYNET, The Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network is the UK’s national voluntary communications service provided for the community by licensed radio amateurs.
RAYNET was formed in 1953 following the severe East coast flooding, to provide a way of organising the valuable resource that Amateur Radio is able to provide to the community.
Since then, it has grown into a very active organisation with around 2000 members, providing communication assistance on many hundreds of events each year.
Amateur Radio operators have access to a wide range of radio bands, operating modes and equipment which allows RAYNET to offer a unique range of emergency communication services to our user services. Coupled with our members endless resourcefulness, RAYNET is regarded as a professional support organisation by both the statutory and volunteer emergency service organisations.
To Contact Greater Manchester RAYNET to request our help etc... Please contct Mr Jon Mossman. G7JKK County Controller. Email : g7jkk@raynet-uk.net
URGENT HELP NEEDED - Lakeland 100 8-10 August
LAKELAND 100 8th - 10th August
Manchester Scouts Raynet have been asked to provide communications between check points for the above event. The event is over a 48 hour period and covers 100 miles around the Lake District, there are 12 check point in total. The event is on 8th - 10th August.
We would be grateful if individual members or groups around the region could take on the manning of one of the check points, they are all in Village Halls or similar.
Posted by G7JKK on Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 13:40:31 MDT(88 reads)
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Radio Playday - Back by popular demand
After numerous requests, a "Radio Playday" will be held at 5th Urmston Scout HQ, Queens Rd, Urmston on Saturday 2nd August. The site will be open from 9am - 5pm approx.
For those of you who have not attended previous "playdays", it is an opportunity to just turn up with your favourite equipment and set it up either outdoors in the superb grounds or inside the scout hut and ---- just operate!! You can circulate and chat with others about their kit and it is an ideal way of discovering new modes.
All being well, there will also be a BBQ, but I will need to know you intend coming to ensure sufficient Sausages are available!
We already have HF, SSTV, ATV, 23cms, 4m, VHF/UHF, APRS and real time Air Navigation (SBS1) demonstrations promised.
A new software package is available spacifically designed to work with Microsoft Vista.
Supporting the popular
- PSK31, PSK63, PSK125 and PSK250
- MFSK, Normal and Reversed
- RTTY, Normal and Reversed Modes and being backwards compatable with the older Microsoft Operating system, XP AirLink Express by KR1ST looks like it is going to be a popular system.
Posted by M0GMX on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 @ 05:59:35 MDT(230 reads)
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The formation of Raynet is documented elsewhere, in Southeastern Lancashire, as it was there were a few Radio Amateurs interested in using their hobby for the public good, amongst these were Mr J Scarborough [G3NVQ] and Mr ECM Walton [G4FSN] the latter newly licensed.
The first notable, some would say the only notable, event, which Raynet was involved with in this area, was the Air Crash on Stockport town centre in June of 1967, where an aircraft, an Argonaut I believe, failed to make the runway at Manchester Ringway. Raynet provided additional radio links for both Manchester and Stockport police forces.
In 1974 the reorganisation of local authorities took place and South East Lancashire and North Cheshire were reorganised into the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester. The county at first had a unifying authority, whose Emergency Planning section was housed in Magnum House off Piccadilly in the centre of Manchester.
While at the moment it is unclear of the exact structure of Raynet in the new county, it appears that there were two fledgling groups at the time one based loosely on Salford & Trafford in the south and one based on Bolton in the north. Mr ECM Walton [G4FSN] was the controller of the Bolton & Wigan Group, appointed 01/10/1979, he also became the controller of the new county at about this time; the exact date is unclear, as is the controller of the Salford & Trafford group at that time.
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1967 June 3rd. U.K., Stockport, near Manchester Ringway Airport: a British Midlands Argonaut plane (British version of a DC-4) on a charter flight from Palma, Majorca crashed on landing approach into the center of Stockport, a suburb of Manchester. The plane broke up on impact; police and others from nearby offices started rescuing survivors within minutes. After about 10 minutes a major fuel explosion took place and engulfed the fuselage in flames. Local fire service were unable to control the blaze and numerous passengers trapped with broken legs and other injuries perished in the fire. 72 of the 84 people aboard died
