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Emergency Communication Provided for the Community by Licensed Radio Operators

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Keighley News
 Trollers Trot
Saturday 6th March 2010

Hi
We are looking for operators for the Trollers Trot on the 6th March it is a 24ml walk in 10hr from Upper Wharfedale School, Threshfield, BD23 5BS (GR SD992640) in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales National Park.


Please send your name and call-sign to Controller or see Geoff G7JZM at the Keighley Radio Club.

12 Operators,

Organiser- G7HEN

 
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An introduction RAYNET

RAYNET (The Radio Amateurs Emergency Network) is the UK's national voluntary communications service provided for the community by licensed radio amateurs. We can provide a flexible communications service for major civil emergencies or related exercises and local community events.

RAYNET has provided additional communications at major incidents involving aircraft, trains, flooding, evacuations, telephone exchange failures, missing persons searches, adverse weather, oil/chemical pollution etc. 

We have also provided safety communications for large-scale community events

RAYNET volunteers normally use their own equipment to provide communications. Voice transmissions are the norm, but typed messages in the form of data transmissions are being increasingly used, allowing 100% accurate messages to be passed over both long and short distances.

In some areas, experimentation is also under way with the use of vehicle-tracking systems and amateur television.

RAYNET, under the terms of the amateur radio license, is permitted to pass messages on behalf of

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British Red Cross
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St John Ambulance
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St Andrew's
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Ambulance Association
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Women's Royal Voluntary Service
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Salvation Army
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any Government Department
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any Category 1 responder as defined in the Civil Contingencies Act (2004)
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any Category 2 responder as defined in the Civil Contingencies Act (2004)
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CIVIL CONTINGENCIES ACT 2004: LIST OF RESPONDERS
Schedule 1 of the Civil Contingencies Act lists the responders subject to its provisions.  The Act splits local responders into two categories and imposes a different set of requirements on each category. Category 1 and 2 responders in England and Wales are listed below.
Section 13 of the Act enables Ministers to amend the list of responders with the agreement
of Parliament.

Category 1 responders (core responders)

Emergencies services
Police forces
British Transport Police
Fire authorities
Ambulance services
Maritime and Coastguard Agency


Local authorities
All principal local authorities (i.e. metropolitan districts, Shire Counties, Shire Districts,
Shire Unitaries)
Port Health Authorities


Health bodies
Primary Care Trusts
Acute Trusts
Foundation Trusts
Local Health Boards (in Wales)
Any Welsh NHS Trust which provides public health services
Health Protection Agency


Government agencies
Environment Agency
Scottish Environment Agency


Category 2 responders (co-operating responders)
 

Utilities
Electricity distributors and transmitters
Gas distributors
Water and sewerage undertakers
Telephone service providers (fixed and mobile)
 

Transport
Network Rail
Train Operating Companies (passenger and freight)
London Underground
Transport for London
Airport operators
Harbour authorities
Highways Agency
 

Health bodies
Strategic Health Authorities
 

Government agencies
Health and Safety Executive