Cambridgeshire RAYNET Group – Home Page

RAYNET- Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network

What RAYNET is and does

RAYNET provides emergency communications services, almost exclusively by radio, to a wide range of organisations. We also provide communications services to organisations for practices and charitable activities. We have been doing this since the 1950s and there are something like 2500 members in the UK. The national RAYNET organisation is a registered charity and all RAYNET members and ‘staff’ are volunteers.

The Local Diary for this year.

Our diary for this season is again a busy one with a number of events currently scheduled.

The Cambridgeshire RAYNET Group

We are the group of volunteers that runs the Cambridgeshire Group. There are some 28 active members living around the county of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia (the Eastern part of England). Year round we cover events on weekends, and prepare for general call-outs for real or practice emergencies. The activity usually involves providing communications or additional communications for one of the voluntary medical services (St John Ambulance or Red Cross), maybe the local government or the Police, or any other listed User Service.

Cambridgeshire RAYNET holds a weekly check-in net every Tuesday evening at 1930hrs on 144.775MHz.  The net is operated under the call sign G0RYC.

Contacting the Cambridgeshire Group

Please go to the Committee Page for Addresses, telephone numbers, radio frequencies etc.

Joining the Group

We are always on the lookout for willing volunteers. If you are a Radio Amateur or interested in radio and are able to help out at one or two events during the year then please get in touch. If you are interested but live outside Cambridge then see the National pages for information on a Group more local to you. There are also sister organisations in many countries of the world and our National organisation can probably help you get in touch.

The RAYNET organisation nationally

The Cambridgeshire Group is part of the national organisation. Read all about it on their web site.