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.

More info on event at www.lakeland100.com

If you think you or your group will be able to assist please get in touch ASAP.

Keith Hampson (G3WFW)

(Manchester Scouts Raynet Controller)

http://www.msraynet.org.uk

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.

Click HERE for a poster

Please email me at g7jkk@gmraynet.co.uk if you intend coming and also give an idea of what, if any, type of kit you will be bringing.

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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