Michael O'Beirne, G8MOB, standing in front of the HR24 Receiver at Sandford Mill Museum

Introduction to Military Communications Talk

The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society is fortunate to have Michael O'Beirne, G8MOB, giving a talk on An Introduction to Military Communications on Tuesday 7th April.

Michael is an author for the Vintage Wireless Magazine "Radio Bygones" and is an expert on Military Communications.

He became interested in Chelmsford through his initial visit to Sandford Mill where he met Dr Geoff Bowles, Keeper of the Science & Industry Museum and Geoff Lovegrove, G7KLV, CARS Liaison Manager.

Michael was interested in the HR24 Receiver but soon noticed that behind the Marconi Hut, were displayed Marconi Radios of every description.

The talk will concentrate on Army comms but will also touch on the problems of inter-Service comms. It will be an introduction to the way in which military communications are run from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

Topics will include:

The aim of military communications.
An overview of army organisation: from platoon to divisions, and between teeth arms and support arms.
Conflicting requirements, eg speed -v- security.
Need-to-know basis and the all-informed basis.
Communications in peace and on operations.
Unit and formation nets and if time permits, radio relay techniques and encryption.
Tactics.
Introduction (briefly) to Electronic Warfare.
Technical requirements of radios (electronic and physical) Examples of a few radios.

The meeting that will be held on Tuesday 7th April at the Marconi Social Club (MASC), Beehive Lane, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 9RX.

The doors open at 7:10 pm and the meeting gets underway at 7:30 pm.

Car parking is free and a bar is available for refreshments.

For a map see: http://tinyurl.com/CARSmeeting

CARS Web: http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/

CARS also run Amateur Radio Training courses on Thursday evenings at Danbury Village Hall. There are courses for Foundation, Intermediate, Advanced as well as Morse Code. To find out more contact the Training Organiser Clive G1EUC on
Tel: 01245-224577
Mob: 07860-418835

Email: ARtraining at g0mwt.org.uk

CARS Training Web Page: http://www.g0mwt.org.uk/training/

PowerPoint slides and course handouts are available for download from the training pages.

Radio Bygones magazine
http://www.radiobygones.com/