Derby Raynet is a group of Radio Amateurs who voluntarily give their time, experience and equipment to provide communication support for charity and community events and, if required, to support emergencies where everyday communications systems, e.g. mobile phones, are unavailable or unreliable.
Please contact us if you need our assistance or would like to join us. We are happy to train volunteers to obtain their foundation amateur radio licence.
It’s been a while since our last update on Digital Comms Connector, but development has continued behind the scenes.
The software allows our event control room to capture and bring together audio, messages and position-tracking data from the communications systems used during events we support even when there is no Internet available. This information is important to the control team, so reliability and accuracy are essential.
We’ve made progress across the communications interfaces and the event management app. Here’s an update on what’s available, what’s supported, and what we’re working on next.
Yesterday 12 of our members turned out to support the 17 mile Ashgate Hospice High Peak Trail charity walk. We provided event communications over the 17 mile stretch of the High Peak Trail.
On our offline DMR logging, tracking and recording project there has been further cleaning of the software and a small architecture change over the last month, slightly delayed due to dependency changes in the app used to view the data.