IN your August 19 issue on page 9 under the headline of ?Put your best foot forward? you refer to the Tavistock Radio Club looking after the Abbots Way Walk route from Princetown to Tavistock.
In fact, it is the Dartmoor Radio Club, which is providing the marshals for the checkpoints for this part of the route and also a safety radio net covering the area.
In this way, we are able to keep track of all the teams and pass messages on their progress back to the organisers at Tavistock College.
The club has undertaken this task since 1998, when they took over the responsibility from the Devon Emergency Volunteers, who had been doing it for many years before that. The club uses modern VHF radios with licensed operators who have a strict operating procedure they are legally bound to follow.
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The club has members who live in various village around Dartmoor, as well as a few who live in Tavistock. It also attracts members from further afield, such as Plymouth and Cornwall, who are interested in operating amateur Radio on Dartmoor.
Ron Middleton
Secretary
Dartmoor Radio Club