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Equine Endurance Ride Support
First involvement with Equine Endurance was to fill in for a CB radio group who couldn’t cover the first day of a ride at Bothwell in 2005. WICEN covered until they arrived on the Saturday. The next ride was in 2006, for STER (Southern Tasmania Endurance Riders) at Rheban, near Orford. WICEN continued to service STER rides ,then included the Pyengana ride. This led to servicing the State Championships in Sassafras in 2009. Being a 24 hr event, I asked the other Amateur Radio clubs to assist. They and their successors have continued with the safety communications for several rides in their regions: NTARC in a big way technically, introducing RFID readers at checkpoints with data communications back to base, feeding a computerised recording and display system, integrated with the ride electronic timing system. The NW club, now NWTARC, have looked after the annual ride based in Sheffield.
My involvement deepened with the national championships, the Tom Quilty, held in the St Helens area in 2012. The 2011 State Championship served as a dress rehearsal. I worked with the organising committee developing the event. Members of three Tasmanian AR clubs were recruited to assist, as were Land Rover Owners Club members. I developed a tracking system which was displayed to the public via monitors and via the internet. WICEN stopped using it with a change of regular Base operators, reverting to paper. NTARC took things much further with the introduction of RFID readers at checkpoints and integration with ride electronic timing system in 2017. I joined the Tas Equine Endurance Riders Assn. and State Management Committee as Treasurer and Webmaster in 2018, actively supporting the sport since then in a number of roles.
2006 STER ride Ringrove
2006 Ringrove checkpoint VK7FDNA
2006 Ringrove Base VK7ZZ
2008 STER Orford
2008 STER Orford VK7JGD, NXX, CDW, Terry Reid
2008 STER Woodstock dawn
2008 STER Woodstock base
2008 STER Woodstock VK7BW, MRS, TPE, NXX
2008 STER Cliftonvale checkpoint
2009 State Championships - Sassafras - Base VK7 MH, Terry Reid, NXX The night of the big flood!
2009 St Helens VK7FRAE, FAME,
2009 St Helens Base
2009 St Helens Base VK7NXX
2009 Woodstock
2010 Cliftonvale
2010 Cliftonvale checkpoint VK7JGD
2010 Cliftonvale checkpoint VK7MRS
2010 Cliftonvale checkpoint VK7ARN
2010 VK7VKV
2010 State Championships Comms Base VK7TPE
2010 State Championships - Sassafras VK7TPE, DC
2010 St Helens
2010 St Helens checkpoint VK7DC
St Helens checkpoint - early morning frost (Pic VK7KTN)
2010 St Helens checkpoint VK7MRS
2021 Scottsdale VK7KPC on HF in a quiet time between ride legs
2021 State Championships checkpoint - rider approaching RFID reader
2021 Oss Foley
2021 Jolly Lette checkpoint RFID
2021 Pyengana checkpoint VK7ZSB, ZAB, ZIR
2020 Dalmeney Park checkpoint
St Helens Base VK7NXX with offsider
2010 St Helens - breakfast in St Marys VK7TPE, ARN, NXX, JGD, MRS
Woodstock Base - VK7NXX
Fonthill checkpoint - ARN pointing out the roos to TRF
2012 Tom Quilty Base VK7NXX
TQ12 Tracking displayed on public monitors and to internet
Tom Quilty 2021 - Communications Manual
TQ12 tracks
2017 Scottsdale Base
2016 State Championships checkpoint VK7ARN & KPC having a warm
2019 Lebrina checkpoint RFID checks VK7ZAB
2018 Sheffield checkpoint VK7AX
2015 State Championships checkpoint VK7KPC & ARN the evening prior to the 24:00 start
2016 Pyengana checkpoint - a wet ride!
2009 Pyengana - rider APRS tracking
2009 Pyengana base station
Rider APRS backpack