Good evening everyone in the WICEN Members email list,

I had hoped to be out of hospital and fit enough to handle the Narooma Rally in just over 3 weeks time, but as the last 'tube' only came out of my abdomen today and I have a few (unknown number) of weeks in Rehab I realise that's not realistic.

This event is normally done by John Woolner VK1ET and/or myself but neither of us is available, hence this call out for help.

The event uses 2 networks, one being an 80 MHz WICEN repeater we erect on a hilltop just out of town, and the other being the Eurobodella Shire Council repeater on 'Peak Alone.  The WICEN repeater is normally put in place early afternoon of the Friday and remains in place til Mid Sunday morning.

Once the repeater is in place, you grab lunch and head to Rally HQ (this year this is at the Swimming Club rooms adjacent the service park) to set up the HQ radio's for each network and prepare the various other radio's ready to be issued to the Officials.

It's proposed the Council Network is used as the main "Officials" network, and the WICEN network is used to provide the SOS tracking (now know as "Positive Tracking") in a manner similar to the way WICEN has done the tracking for NatCap and Rally of Canberra over the years, it just won't be a trained radio operator out in the field.

It's understood this is a big ask of an individual to take on by themselves, and are happy if a couple of people want to team up to do all the different tasks, etc.

If you can help then please send an email to the wicen@crarc.org.au email address and I'll try to coordinate things from here.

Cheers,

....Phil Longworth VK1PL 

(Sent from my phone  so please excuse any typos)