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National Coas****ch Mablethorpe - Eagle Radio Club Mablethorpe - Raynet, Mablethorpe; Get together to Commemorate the 1953 Flood
Local Radio Amateurs, members of the National Coas****ch Mablethorpe Team, plus Eagle Radio Group members and also volunteers of the local Radio Amateur Emergency group Raynet are planning manning a Amateur Radio Station (MX0ERG) from the site of the NCI Station at Quebec Road Car Park, Mablethorpe on Sunday 27th January to commemorate the Flood that hit Mablethorpe and devastated the East Coast of Great Britain and some of the Low countries. The groups are hoping to contact as many Local Radio Amateurs as they can especially those that now reside within the areas that were flooded in 1953, places such as Canvey Island Essex, plus contact as many of the National Coas****ch stations around the coastline of Great Britain, as an exercise of how to set up Emergency Communications without the use of Computers, Faxes, and Telephone. IN other words the in the spirit of 1953.
Raynet, the Radio Amateurs Emergency group was founded on the back of the 1953 Floods because of the fact that the Humber Radio station sited at that period at Trusthorpe not 5 kilometers from NCI Mablethorpe's current location, was inundated and was unable to respond to the many nautical Mayday calls that were being received, two Mablethorpe Radio Amateurs took matters into their own hands and in contravention of the Radio Licence managed to contact the vessels using morse code, and relayed message from the shore to the vessels. It is that spirit that the teams are attempting to recreate, but using Radio technology. Both Voice and morse communications will be attempted from the temporary site. After the flood the GPO the regulator of the wireless bands identified a need for a form of emergency cover and Raynet was formed, Raynet now is allied to the Radio Society of Great Britain. Radio Amateurs have to pass a series of examinations, both technical and theory, but the Eagle Radio group does run regular course for aspiring amateur especially young members of the computer generation, more information from Eagle Radio Groups web site.
It is politely suggested that NCI teams throughout the country contact any Radio Amateurs they may have on NCI role or known personally - if none then contact either your local Amateur Radio Club or local Raynet group details can be found either
www.rsgb.org.uk or try your local Emergency Planning office - ( although in the severely flooded areas of the South West they may not be happy for such contact for which we fully under stand).
We have plans to broadcast on Amateur frequencies using 80 metres, 40meters and 20 metres plus 144 MHz VHF sideband between the hours of 1000 - 1500 utc. We plan to set up from around 0830utc so there may be test transmissions before that 1000 - The Callsign MX0ERG the clb callsign of Eagle Radio Group will used by kind of permission of the Club Licensee. Contacts will be acknowledge by a Traditional QSL Card and NCI Stations will receive a Certificate, Acknowledging their participation.
Further information can be obtained by email to
ncimablethorpe@aol.com, or telephone 01507 477842