The Hard Work
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Now comes the mucky bit! You have sat at that post, sometimes in the foulest of
weathers, and just as you have a chance to go off for something to eat you have
to face it - there is a junction to clear!
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It will have taken the set-up crews days to set up the stages for the
rally. It will take equally as long to strip them unless people spend five
minutes before they leave their junction stripping it down and leaving
everything by one upright post.
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Don't forget to leave that one arrow still stuck to its post, it routes
everyone out of the stage. And remember to tuck arrows, signs and tape under a
post so they don't blow away. Not much point in the Equipment Van arriving at
your post if all the lightweight bits you piled up have already blown off to
various parts of the forest.
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If every radio operator realised that this is part of being a radio operator
and automatically stripped their junctions after every rally we would not be
known as the ones who gave up marshalling for the cushy job.
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We have not given up marshalling, we are simply marshals with licenced radios,
we have to do all the things a marshal does plus operate the radio. That is why
the MSA asks us to have more than one in our crew.
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Can we all pull together and earn the title of Radio Marshals?
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