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.
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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.
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
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 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
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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
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