Controller: J S Grieve GM0OTI Phone 01463 791 444

Dear Member AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2003

Exercises

Thank you to all who helped at the various events this year; from the Huskies through to Horses at Blair Castle and the Wade Walk, Highland Cross, Lairig Gru and Corrie Yairack in between. An explanation about the Corrie Yairack and Blair Castle events. I decided that due to the rescheduling of the Wade walk and the addition of the Lairig event we would be over stretched to provide our full service at the Corrie Yairack event this year. Additionally the GP providing medical cover on the Ft Augustus side had in recent years shown no interest in using us for communications. However, I was delighted to hear that on the day a number of our members were operating, assisting the MRT. I hope that for 2004 we will be able to develop this joint working with the MRT. The Blair Castle 3 day Horse Trials used to be a major feature in our group calendar. For many reasons this event has had a lower profile although Steve 1VAD has attended most years helping the Perth & Kinross group. This year Lindsey, Fiona and myself also assisted, we took the caravan for the weekend and very much enjoyed the fine weather. My apologies if you were unaware of this event, you can always attend in 2004!

Future Events

Date	Event	Location	On-air time (provisional)
15&16 November	SDAS – Husky racing	Millbuie – Black Isle	09:00
24 & 25 January	Siberian Husky Club	Glen More – Strathspey	08:30
14&15 February	SDAS – Husky Racing	Culbin Forest – Nairn	08:30
5 or 12 June	Wade Walk	Strathpeffer	Various from 08:00
19th June	Highland Cross	Glen Affric	Various from 08:00
26^th June	Lairig Gru	Cairngorms	Various from 06:00
3^rd August	Corrie Yairack	Ft Augustus / Garve Bridge	Various from 08:00

Registrations.

Thankyou for returning the various registration forms and photographs. I will be sending by the end of the October a print of contact details. When you receive this let me know of any errors or omissions. I use some codes to sort entries in the database, R is for registered members, F are “friends” i.e. members of other groups who have assisted us, GC are adjacent group controllers, U are user contacts.

Inverness-Ray.net

www.inverness-ray.net is our own web site; it contains information about the group, the events we help at and some general information & links to the national RAYNET site. Unfortunately due to a lack of time I have not kept it fully updated over this summer. I hope to get it seen too soon. Any suggestions for additional pages/contents, text or for links to other sites should be submitted to me by e-mail or the back of an envelope!

Raynet-uk.net

ww.raynet-uk.net is the national Raynet web site. You can check and change your own details by logging onto www.raynet-uk.net/main/ and clicking on Members Area. Access is restricted you need to enter your callsign and membership id as shown on the back of your membership card it looks like (00)12345678.

Mailing Preferences

Distributing information by e-mail is easiest and cheapest. Packet is also easy although formatting such as headers and tables are lost. Paper by post is slowest. I recognise we each have different systems and preferences so I will send you information in the format that you chose – please let me know your preference.

Items for Sale

Following a house move Arthur GM0KNT has been selling his radio gear. He still has for sale a Trio TR751E 2m multimode and an excellent homebrew HF ATU. I have these in Inverness – if you are interested please contact me.

Finally

Please let me know as soon as possible which events you can help at or more importantly those you definitely are unable to attend. Any questions or queries please contact me – remember our hobby is communications!

73’s John GM0OTI