Event Radio Co-ordinating Stoke 3 and Stoke 4 would have been co-ordinating the radios for Y Rali Bryn Cymru on Sat/Sun May 5/6 2001 as well as for The Hillrally on F/S/S 5/6/7 October 2001 if they had taken place! This page gives a little insight into what Radio Co-ordinating entails and how you can help   Event Radio Co-ordinators rely on you to get your callsigns to them as soon as you are certain you can appear at the event. It is better to suddenly say you can come the week before the event than to have put your callsign forward a few months ahead then have to pull out the week before. Look at what the job entails: First get an idea of the callsigns available - contact each one Second get some stage plans (a difficult one, this!) Third staff each stage with a minimum of callsigns, those you are almost certain will be there Fourth ensure there is a pool of callsigns for use if the Clerk of the Course alters the stages ;-) Fifth set a time limit on alterations, about 2 weeks before the event Sixth (14 days before the event) make the "final" comms plan Seventh get paperwork together for each callsign and mail it Between the third and sixth step there will be a new comms plan everytime someone says "I can't come " or "I can come after all". Because of the very nature of a hillrally it is advisable to put a radio car in wherever there is room for one, just filling the mandatory posts is not the ideal way of giving network cover. For this reason a stage with 10 posts could end up with 20 radio posts which is why we need so many callsigns. Dean Control would run the event with probably as little as 5 of them, just the mandatories, covered but would much prefer the 20 covered for the greater safety of all concerned. That is the standard we try to reach for him and we can only get there with your help - obviously.