Remember Chernobyl!

Hiya,

I'm andybloke, from the Remember Chernobyl team. I'll be co-driver/engineer/programmer with BJ, who's on the forum somewhere. Yeah, programmer ... there's a bunch of non LR processors under the drivers seat of the Tomb Raider edition Defender 90 (Td5) we'll be driving the rally in.

The charities we're supporting are Chernobyl Childrens Project (UK) and Medicine And Chernobyl.

I met some of the Landy Rally folks at Driffield, and somehow ended up with a hangover and lots of photos of people in Landy Rally sweatshirts.

There's some of the photos at http://photos.ymmv.co.uk/c1294694.html - the rest may be published later, depending how the whole blackmail letter thing pans out.

Welcome! Your Chernobyl charities sound very worthwhile. See you in Calais!

Lu and Tweedie

Ooooerr, I'd forgotten half of that. Make a mental note Tom - cameras and JD don't go together!

Welcome from team Land Rovers and wine!

See you in Calais,
Best of luck, Mark

hello, and welcome from team monstar
ineresting but definatly worth while charity

cheers kieran

Hi there, welcome from the short way round!

What interesting charities, will have to have a look at them, esp your 2nd one, sounds really interesting.

Will have a look at the photo's, i've still not made an event yet as shift work has got in the way do far!!

Hope to meet you soon.

PS, how much non LR stuff? and whats it for??

theshortwayround wrote:

What interesting charities, will have to have a look at them, esp your 2nd one, sounds really interesting.

Medicine And Chernobyl raise funds for the medical stations set up to help combat radiation poisoning, as so many people are living on and eating from land in Belarus contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion in '86.

theshortwayround wrote:

PS, how much non LR stuff? and whats it for??

Comms gear, computer interfaces, telematics, fault-finding, trip computers and some engine management goodies. We'll be transmitting back real-time data from onboard GPS, as well as images from a camera and vehicle statistics (fuel level, speed, air temperature, who's driving, peak G-forces, etc). People will be able to see where we are at any time using Google Earth, or our website.

You can see some of the realtime GPS at http://www.rememberchernobylrally.org/live/tracking.php - but some of the features are turned off at the moment ... and we haven't finished the website yet...

Oh wow, thats some seriously funky stuff!!

And i thought only George dubya could follow us all using our mobile signals??

Good stuff though, will have a look.

I love the GPS stuff, it's brilliant. I don't think we'll be getting too technical, although we have now got scaffolding bars in the back of the Disco to attach everything to!

Lu

scaffolding bars ?? sounds intreguing, and heavy!!

Hi and a big welcome from TEAM BUSHPIG, look forward to seeing you on the rally. :pig:

Alloy scaffolding poles I would hope - strong and lightweight.

Just an update to say that our new web site is live:

http://laralive.org/

Follow our prep through the blogs and be the first to chat to a Landrover on IM. Oh yeah!

BJ

Really good guys, especially like the bit in BJ's blog - BG mail shot all mates, Andybloke Mail shot both mates, except BJ,

Laughed myself silly!

Nice going though guys

theshortwayround wrote:

Really good guys, especially like the bit in BJ's blog - BJ mail shot all mates, Andybloke Mail shot both mates, except BJ,

WANTED: 3rd friend. Must understand I'm too busy fixing BJ's land rover to have any friends.

Love the website, it's ace! Have you asked Badger to link it to the main Landy Rally site?

Lu :bom:

Cheers Lu

No I did not ask Badger, asked Tom. You're right though - I need to speak to the organ grinder... ;-)

Great website! See you all soon.

Organ grinders? Monkeys? Bad analogy! This only works if you're talking about a boss and his skivvy. Badger and I don't work like that. The point is we're mates - no, we're very good friends (but not in the biblical sense) so we'll help each other out whenever, that's why the Organ Grinder reference doesn't sound good. Besides, it sounds as if he's paid. Hah!!!! It hasn't happened in 12 years of organising events, so can't see it starting now!

Seriously, no sooner had you asked me, I asked him, job done. You can't make a monkey out of Badger!

BTW, great website. Can't wait to see the Google Earth thingy in action. Then again, I'll be on Landy Rally myself so don't suppose I will see it - bummer!

Tom Mc wrote:

Can't wait to see the Google Earth thingy in action. Then again, I'll be on Landy Rally myself so don't suppose I will see it - bummer!

You could pretend that .... um ... Scalby is on the rally - according to Google Earth, that's where it is now. Apparently outside a pub.

No offence Tom - It was a poor sample of my sardonic wit.

No problem mate, mine's a large JD!

Now there's a thought. Have to start a BJ-putting-his-foot-in-it slate, could be profitable.

AndyBloke has just returned LaraLandy with new dash board and electrics.

Andy - You are a star. Hard to explain how excited I am about everything - Its getting kind of real.

Tom: Just realized, you missed who I was calling a monkey. Kind of explains your mini-rant

Cheque is in the post.

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