Further Call for Volunteers –ACTERA National Capital "Brookvale" Ride - October 15th 2023
Good afternoon everyone,
A reminder that the ACTERA Brookvale Endurance ride in the Uriarra area is coming up fast on Sunday 15th October.
We now have a few more details as follows….
The major 80 KM ride starts at 5:00 AM on the first ‘loop’ which goes out along Doctors flat road towards Wee Jasper looping around through Brindabella National Park and returning to Ride Base along Maginot Trail and Doctors Flat road. This loop requires 3 checkpoints with CP1 & 3 being at the same physical location at the Maginot Trail / Doctors Flat road intersection and Checkpoint 2 further out at the Doctors Flat / Scorgies Fire Trail intersection. For both these checkpoints a 4WD vehicle is required and people need to be away from the Start / Ride base no later than 4:45 AM but CP2 should be cleared by around 9:00 AM and CP1/3 about 10:15.
The second leg of the main ride and all the other smaller rides are undertaken in the Uriarra Forest area looping around near Blue Range Hut and beyond. There are 4 checkpoints in this are but not all riders go through each checkpoint, these checkpoints are as follows….
CP4 (AKA “Gate 8”) is located on East West Road (2WD access) and needs a person there from about 8:15 AM til early afternoon
CP5 is on Blue Range Road (on the far side of Blue Range Hut) (2WD Access) and needs a person from about 9:00 AM til around 3:00 PM.
CP6 is within the old Sherwood property at the base of Two Sticks Hill (4WD would be best) and needs a person from around 9:00 AM – this CP only has riders doing the 22KM and 13KM ride’s
CP7 is at the intersection of One & Two Sticks Roads (4WD required) and needs a person from about 10:00 AM til around 4:00 PM
Net Control at Ride base needs to be operating from around 4:15 AM until last Checkpoint is closed, so a 2 or 3 shift arrangement would be best.
So far we only have SEVEN (7) people register to assist and we need a few more to be able to do the job properly.
WICEN Operations will be on 2 Metres VHF using a Portable Repeater on 147.125 MHz (+600) to be installed on “Pig Hill” on Saturday 14th and retrieved late on Sunday 15th. WICEN is also providing the Ride organisers with a number of VHF Mid-Band radio’s on one of the Commercial frequencies we have along with a repeater that will be co-located with 2 Metres on Pig Hill.
So once again, if you can assist would you please click on the link below and register ASAP so we can bed-down who will be doing what.
Cheers all,
Phil Longworth VK1PL
Deputy State Coordinator, WICEN ACT
Life Member, Canberra Region Amateur Radio Club
