Our Mobile Control Unit

We now have a well equipped Mobile Control Unit which was funded for us by Dumfries and Galloway Council, the unit gets quite a lot of use and there is usually no shortage of volunteers to work control.

The unit gets used on most of our major events such as the Kirkcudbright and Stranraer half marathons, the Galloway Hills and Solway Coast Rally's and of course quite a few of the S.E.R.C. riding events....... read more

Dumfries and Galloway Raynet Today

Dumfries and Galloway Raynet is moving from strength to strength, over the past three or four years membership has doubled and we now have 25 members of which between ten and fifteen are available for group exercises.

We also have strong links with groups in neighboring areas who assist us when we have a large exercise on such as the Galloway Hills Rally. W e have members coming from as far as Yorkshire and Lancashire as well as Ayrshire, we are always looking for new members and although a amateur radio licence is an advantage it is not essential as we can assist with training and eventually gaining a licence.

The Eden Music Festival

I was contacted in early July 2009 by the promoter of the Eden Festival; I must admit I had never heard of it before although I had seen a few fly stickers advertising it around our area. He had been given my name by a member of a local event safety group EFAR who we have worked with on many occasions.

The event was to be held in the Forest of Ae just north of Dumfries at a location known as The Meadows. This is a very beautiful area.

for more pictures of the Festival click here

It seems the event was struggling to get the necessary licence: due to the location of the proposed site there was no mobile phone coverage which meant that if there was a problem someone would have to travel approximately 3 miles to the nearest telephone to make an emergency call. Read More

Alex Anderson GM4VIR

Welcome to the Dumfries and Galloway Raynet website, the group was founded in 1986 by the late Alex Anderson GM4VIR after a major forest fire about 8 miles north of the town of Gatehouse of Fleet in 1982/3. The local WRVS were providing food and drinks from the village to the fire fighters but were having problems in updating the food requirements for the large number of people involved.

Afterwards Mrs Lillian Dent the WRVS organiser asked Alex if the local amateurs could have provided some kind of radio link between the two and Alex decided then that Dumfries and Galloway Raynet should be established............. read more

Watch our Power Point Presentation

This Power Point Presentation give an insight to RAYNET, what we do and how we do it, this is a large file 13 MB......more