Memoranda

Exercise Operational Readiness (EOR)

 

In January, there will be a Coastal Raynet Exercise, called Exercise Operational Readiness. As its name implies it will be an exercise to test your operational readiness and preparedness to respond at short notice for a potential Raynet callout.

The exercise will consist of you calling control, where upon you will be given a 6 figure grid reference and be asked to move to that location. Upon arrival at the location you will be asked a simple question about the location - an observation - and upon receipt of your answer, you will be given another 6 figure grid reference etc. In total you might be asked depending upon time and conditions to go to 3 or 4 different positions, report in and then return to your QTH where after reporting in, you will be stood down.

EOR will last for between 2 and 2½ hours and you will be able to join at any time during the first hour, i.e. between 19.00and 20.00. All being well everyone should be stood down by 21.30 at the latest.

The evenings for the exercise are most likely to be either a Tuesday or Thursday as Norfolk County Raynet net takes place on a Monday, and NARC events take place on Monday and Wednesday nights.

The actual date will be given on the Monday night net before the exercise and will be posted on the website on the same day - operating frequency and control call sign will be in the details given on both the net and posted on the web site.

All being well, the exercise will not be called for a night when it is forecast to be snowy, or frosty, i.e. conditions better than a real call, but will give you more notice.

I hope that as many members as possible will turn out for this exercise - you will need an OS map for it, but there is no need to give me advance notice that you will take part.

Steve, g7vah, Controller Coastal Group, Norfolk County Raynet.

 

Details

 

Exercise Operational Readiness (EOR) will take place on Tuesday 13th January 2009 between the hours of 19.00 and 21.30 UTC.

Norfolk County RAYNET members are requested to take part. You may join the exercise between 19.00 and 20.00 hours UTC by calling Raynet control G7RNN/P on 144.650MHz Exercise frequency. which will be situated at NGR TG294277

Upon contacting control, mobile stations will be acknowledged and given a 6 figure grid reference ( you will need to be non-mobile to receive and record this reference (before you motor away) to proceed to. Upon reaching your grid point, you will need to inform control and give the identification of your location. You will then be given another grid reference to proceed to, where you will again inform Control of your arrival and give identification of your location. It is unlikely that you will be given more than 3 different NGR points to proceed to, thus you shouldn’t be out for more than 60 - 90 minutes. After reaching your final grid point, you will then be advised to return to your home QTH by control, inform control on your arrival at home, where you will be stood down.

If you wish to abort the Exercise please inform Control otherwise we will not know if you have arrived home safely.

Minimum requirements for this exercise:-

OS map 134 / 133 (N. Norfolk locations) (Landranger series) + knowledge how to find a 6 figure grid reference – clear instructions are given in the legend of the map)

Alternative OS map(s) – OL40 / 252 (N.Norfolk) (Explorer series)

Torch

Paper/clip board + pen / pencil

Equipment required 2m mobile transceiver and aerial. I suspect that a hand held without a good aerial mounted on the car is unlikely to be sufficient for the exercise, but it is worth while testing to see if you might need a QSP station to receive instructions

Navigator/ passenger seat filler (optional)

I would like a clear frequency to be kept for the duration of the exercise (i.e. between 19.00 and 21.30 UTC) i.e. although you might be itching to QSO during the exercise but if you are not taking part please do not transmit, as it is highly likely that some locations will not be able to / have poor contact with control. With this in mind, it would be appreciated if some stations could operate QSP stations from their home QTH for the duration of the exercise. Can these stations contact control at the START of the exercise so that we have some idea of who and where these locations are to help any possible message relaying.

 

Steve,     G7VAH, Coastal Controller, Norfolk County Raynet