Cambridge Group Profile

Group Controller: G0SFA Victoria Hyde 

 Cambridge City Raynet Group, as it was originally named, was formed during the mid seventies, and has remained active in support of it's User Services until the present day. The present group consists of some score of members, and though many live within the environs of Cambridge city, there are also others who live in urban areas in the east and north of the county.
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 The most prestigious of the group's regular commitments have been at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, a famous wartime RAF and USAF airfield, where the four or more annual flying weekend gatherings attract crowds of up to twenty thousand spectators.

 Raynet's rôle at these shows has been to provide a radio network to link the usual statutary emergency services into an overall response team which would be responsible for co-ordinating effective safety measures and public protection in the face of a major flying disaster.

 Down to middle  Typical Activites

 A series of  'Fun Run' events brighten up the summer months in the villages round the outskirts of Cambridge, requiring several operators to provide the Red Cross first aid teams with communications.


 Cycling events, often involving hundreds, are also a regular feature of the calendar,the annual London to Cambridge and the local Big Wheel rides being among the more prominent.


 At least one group of long distance Walks for charity takes place about mid summer, and with a complement of over a thousand walkers entails a long day's commitment for the user service and our Raynet contingent. [air
A few sponsored horse riding events make up a varied fare of weekend activities for Cambridge Raynet members.©
 The October 2002 Duxford show featured the SOE as a main theme.Below are two of it's surviving wartime members, fronting the famous Lysander 'agent running' aircraft. Right: A wartime clandestine radio, used by agents in occupied Europe.
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Dick Rubenstein ----------------Yvonne Burley
 

Earlier times for Cambridge Raynet - many nuclear attack scenarios were rehearsed in commcen bunkers like this during the cold war period.
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