The Network The Hillrally, like Stage Rallies, is run under a controlled network by one of the finest Radio Controllers in the country. The discipline is strict and yet when you fall below standard you are corrected with compassion! Try making the ultimate error of calling in with your callsign first and you are likely to hear "No, I'm Control, you're Stoke 3!" or whatever your callsign is. A hillrally is so different to stage rallies - sometimes you can be only a few hundred yards from the next radio point but you can be separated be a few hundred feet with no way of communicating with each other except by radio. Because of this radios are situated in every possible place - if there is a safe space, in goes a radio! It makes the MSA idea of mandatory radio posts a little superfluous when out of 10 instage posts you have 12 or 14 radio posts! Control will see to the overall coverage of a stage and if someone hasn't turned up he will be likely to move people around to gain the coverage he needs. But you must ensure you go to your allocated post, never decide a different one would be better! If Control needs you somewhere else he will ask you to move, but only he knows the overall plan. Go where you are put! Remember, Control will also have toured those stages at offroad speeds and he will know the spots he simply has to have a radio at. He will have arranged a comprehensive communications check well before the event and will have a back-up plan in the event of weather conditions turning comms upside down. Haven't we all met that situation?! All in all, the controlled network that exists at The Hillrally is a strict, efficient and totally controlled one. It has to be, simply because the terrain can lead to tremendous complications you would never meet on a stage rally. So when we say "Dean Control" we really do mean "Control".