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11-25-2006, 06:04 PM
Announcing SOS Radio Week
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a very special organisation.
Volunteer RNLI crew members receive no wages – yet they have to be prepared to be regularly called away from their families, beds and work.
They make themselves available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to save lives, braving high winds and heavy seas, up to 50 miles from the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The crews rescue on average 22 people a day, yet fewer than 10 per cent of new crew members come from a professional maritime background. For this reason, the RNLI established the 'Train One, Save Many' campaign to help ensure that these crew members are given the highest standards of training as well as the knowledge, the dedication and the team spirit all needed to be part of a lifesaving crew.
For the last two years, the RNLI have organised SOS Day, when everyone is invited to wear their trainers, casual clothing or fancy dress for the day wherever they are (be it at work, school, at home, or even out shopping) and make a £1 donation to the RNLI's training fund. Next year's SOS Day will take place on the 26th January, 2007.
Two Radio Amateurs from the Southport & District Amateur Radio Club, Derek (G7LFC) and David (M3LFC) Hughes, thought they could mobilise the Amateur Radio community into fund raising mode by asking them to do what they do best - communicating. They are inviting all Radio Amateurs in the United Kingdom and Ireland to take part in SOS Radio Week.
SOS Radio Week will start at 00:00 UTC on Saturday 20th January, 2007, and conclude at 23:59 UTC on the evening of SOS Day itself, the 26th January. During that time, Amateur Radio operators will be challenged to make as many unique contacts as they can. Sponsorship forms are available now on the SOS Radio Week website, as are special log sheets and a leafet that can be printed out and given to those who sponsor you.
Certificates will be available for all operators who take part in return for a £1 contribution to the costs of printing and postage - any surplus will be added to the amount raised by those taking part and presented to the RNLI at an Amateur Radio rally later in the year. Certificates can be endorsed for single bands and modes and QSL cards need not be submitted to confirm the contacts.
Special certificates will be presented in the following classes:
Most money raised by a minor (under 16)
Most contacts made by a minor (under 16)
Most money raised by an adult (16+)
Most contacts made by an adult (16+)
£10 purchases a training video, £272 provides a crew member with first aid, radio, radar, or seamanship training, whilst £1,372 will enable an inshore lifeboat crew member to train for a week at the RNLI's state-of-the-art college in Poole. Every penny that the Amateur Radio community raises helps to train one more crew member.
Further details of the event can be found on the SOS Radio Week website at http://www.sadarc.org.uk/rnlisos.
Details of the RNLI's SOS Day can be found at http://www.rnlisos.org.uk/
Derek Hughes G7LFC
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http://www.rnli.org.uk/upload/lifeboats/Mersey/Mersey%20228x186_228_186.jpg
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a very special organisation.
Volunteer RNLI crew members receive no wages – yet they have to be prepared to be regularly called away from their families, beds and work.
They make themselves available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to save lives, braving high winds and heavy seas, up to 50 miles from the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The crews rescue on average 22 people a day, yet fewer than 10 per cent of new crew members come from a professional maritime background. For this reason, the RNLI established the 'Train One, Save Many' campaign to help ensure that these crew members are given the highest standards of training as well as the knowledge, the dedication and the team spirit all needed to be part of a lifesaving crew.
For the last two years, the RNLI have organised SOS Day, when everyone is invited to wear their trainers, casual clothing or fancy dress for the day wherever they are (be it at work, school, at home, or even out shopping) and make a £1 donation to the RNLI's training fund. Next year's SOS Day will take place on the 26th January, 2007.
Two Radio Amateurs from the Southport & District Amateur Radio Club, Derek (G7LFC) and David (M3LFC) Hughes, thought they could mobilise the Amateur Radio community into fund raising mode by asking them to do what they do best - communicating. They are inviting all Radio Amateurs in the United Kingdom and Ireland to take part in SOS Radio Week.
SOS Radio Week will start at 00:00 UTC on Saturday 20th January, 2007, and conclude at 23:59 UTC on the evening of SOS Day itself, the 26th January. During that time, Amateur Radio operators will be challenged to make as many unique contacts as they can. Sponsorship forms are available now on the SOS Radio Week website, as are special log sheets and a leafet that can be printed out and given to those who sponsor you.
Certificates will be available for all operators who take part in return for a £1 contribution to the costs of printing and postage - any surplus will be added to the amount raised by those taking part and presented to the RNLI at an Amateur Radio rally later in the year. Certificates can be endorsed for single bands and modes and QSL cards need not be submitted to confirm the contacts.
Special certificates will be presented in the following classes:
Most money raised by a minor (under 16)
Most contacts made by a minor (under 16)
Most money raised by an adult (16+)
Most contacts made by an adult (16+)
£10 purchases a training video, £272 provides a crew member with first aid, radio, radar, or seamanship training, whilst £1,372 will enable an inshore lifeboat crew member to train for a week at the RNLI's state-of-the-art college in Poole. Every penny that the Amateur Radio community raises helps to train one more crew member.
Further details of the event can be found on the SOS Radio Week website at http://www.sadarc.org.uk/rnlisos.
Details of the RNLI's SOS Day can be found at http://www.rnlisos.org.uk/
Derek Hughes G7LFC
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