Following three very successful days in support of International Air Ambulance Week in 2014, Essex Ham is supporting the event again this year. We’ll be at Earls Colne Airfield, home of the Essex Air Ambulance.
IAAW is a nine-day amateur radio event to support the work done by Air Ambulance services around the world, and we’re proud to be supporting the Essex Air Ambulance for this year’s event.
GB2EAA – Essex Air Ambulance
To support the work of the Essex Air Ambulance, Essex Ham will be running three special event stations from the Earls Colne Airfield, the operational base of the county’s air ambulance.
2015 Planned Operations
We will be operating at the following times:
- Saturday 19 September 2015 10am to 4pm
- Sunday 20 September 2015 10am to 4pm
- One weekday between 21 and 25 September – to be confirmed
Supporting the event
Everyone’s welcome to attend – and hopefully to do some operating. There’s free parking at the airfield, and on Saturday, we’re very close to a burger van for excellent breakfast and lunch. Come along to help support the event, and spend some time with the team at Anglian Flight Centres, a busy flying school. See the video below to get a feel for last year’s event.
Location:
Anglian Flight Centres Ltd
Earls Colne Business Pk Airfield
Lancaster Way
Earls Colne
Colchester CO6 2NS
If you can’t make the event – please try to work us on-air (updates on frequencies via Twitter), and of course make a donation (see below).
Essex Air Ambulance 2014
We operated for three days in September and October in 2014 – You can read our reports here:
- Sunday 28th September 2014: Essex Air Ambulance 28 Sept 2014 Report
- Wednesday 1st October 2014: Essex Air Ambulance Event 01 Oct 2014 Report
- Saturday 4th October 2014: Essex Air Ambulance Event 04 Oct 2014 Report
Donate to Essex Air Ambulance
It costs around £440,000 a month to keep the Essex & Herts Air Ambulances flying, and your support is needed.
Please show your support for the excellent work that the Air Ambulance does. Collecting tins are situated around the county. You can also donate online, by post, or by texting HELI25 to 70070 – See www.essexairambulance.uk.com
Essex Ham is an official supporter of Essex Air Ambulance. Supporter ID: 47279
Our Thanks
Our thanks to team at Anglian Flight Centres at Earls Colne Airfield for allowing us to set up our stations in support of the Essex Air Ambulance.
All things being equal, as they say, we will come up on Sunday , we will listen out for you today too , but we don’t have Twitter , so we will just flick about I guess xx