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No I've not gone all Amateur radio on you, however the September 2004 issue of Short Wave Magazine has an excellent article entitled
In it Clive Hardy takes a look at the radio communications used by the World Rally Championship and other similar events and in doing so provides an insight into these often breathtaking competitions. The article starts :- "The World Rally Championship (WRC) visits the UK this month with the Wales Rally GB, the current name for what most of us still know as the RAC Rally. The event will see decal covered cars, which look otherwise similar to their showroom counterparts being propelled along narrow gravel tracks at amazing speeds. Spectators get closer to the action than at almost any other motor sport. Drivers, backed up by legions of technicians and administrators, each trying to be the quickest to get their car along those tracks. Just like any other organised event, a car rally needs good communications to achieve a successful outcome. The bigger the event, the greater the number of channels of communication required. Any event where mobility is a factor, and rally cars are certainly mobile, needs communication - that means radio..."
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