{"id":2433,"date":"2022-09-02T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2023-11-25T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T14:18:07","slug":"clacton-airshow-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/clacton-airshow-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clacton Airshow Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Essex RAYNET recently supported the annual Clacton Airshow this week. Providing Emergency Resilience Radio
\nCommunications for the District EPO, between key strategic locations in a pre-deployed state. Typically, this event
\nattracts around 250,000 visitors to the town of Clacton On Sea, across the 2 Day Event.<\/p>\n

15 Operators across the 2 days, volunteered approx. 350 hours to this event – not including all the planning meetings
\nand engineering that is involved in an event of this size.<\/p>\n

This year saw us for the first time, deploy the use of both DMR Timeslots via our 2x Dual Mode 70cm DMR Repeaters
\n(1 primary and 1 backup repeater), allowing us to run a Routine Net on 1 Slot and an Encrypted Net on the remaining
\nslot – to allow us to pass sensitive information at the request of the User Service.<\/p>\n

We deployed the following equipment:
\n2x Motorola DR3000 Dual Mode DMR Repeaters (1x Primary and 1x Backup)
\n2x Motorola DM4600 UHF Mobiles for Net Control (1x for Routine and 1 for Secure)
\n6x Motorola DP3400 Handhelds (For Secure Traffic)
\nMixture of Members owned DP3400s, DP3600s and DP4800s Handhelds (For Routine and Secure Traffic)
\nIcom ID-5100 @ Net Control for D-Star
\nIcom ID-52 and Icom IC-92 for D-Star
\nIcom LTE IP501\/503 and IP730D LTE Handhelds (Backup to RF)
\nIcom IP501 Mobile for Net Control (Backup to RF)
\nIcom ICF-5122D for Monitoring local RF Systems on VHF<\/p>\n

This approach allowed us to ensure that any priority Radio Traffic would always get through, even while the other
\nslot was in use for Routine Traffic. This structured approach to running a Dual Net Control, worked very well and
\nwith minimal additional infrastructure to facilitate this.<\/p>\n

We also took this opportunity, thanks to the use of 2\/70 Duplexers, to trial D-Star Photo and Text Chat via the Icom
\nRS-MS1A App used via a Bluetooth or Cable. Connection to a D-Star Radio, which worked well on VHF, allowing us to
\nsend and receive Images\/Text when the 3G\/4G was crippled due to Network overload.<\/p>\n

Our Operators were approached on multiple occasions by those with Scanners or Radios, all keen to know what we
\nwere using and how they might listen in.<\/p>\n

A detailed article into our journey into DMR and why Secure Communications are becoming a \u2018MUST HAVE\u2019 will
\nfollow.<\/p>\n

2E0XTA County Controller & Engineering Officer for Essex RAYNET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Essex RAYNET recently supported the annual Clacton Airshow this week. Providing Emergency Resilience Radio Communications for the District EPO, between key strategic locations in a pre-deployed state. Typically, this event attracts around 250,000 visitors to the town of Clacton On Sea, across the 2 Day Event. 15 Operators across the 2 days, volunteered approx. 350
+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexraynet.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}