The British Caving Association

March 2023 CREG Journal Now Published

A new quarterly CREG journal is now online at https://bcra.org.uk/cregj. This is a few weeks late - apologies - but we just made it before the end of the month.

This will be mailed on paper to our subscribers to arrive by around 10 April 2023. The next issue - journal 122 - is due on 1 June 2023 and might also be slightly late.

CREG is The British Cave Research Association's special interest group for cave radio and electronics but, recently, CREG has broadened its remit to cover other aspects of cave technology, including surveying and photography. A list of contents, and brief descriptions of the articles in the present issue can be found at https://bcra.org.uk/cregj. The CREG journal is available online and on paper. Annual subscriptions and single back-issues can be ordered. If your online subscription has expired, you will find out when you try to log in.


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If you subscribe to the paper edition of the CREG journal and you live outside the UK - and particularly if you live in the EU - please read the notice at https://bcra.org.uk/bookshop/creg_subscriptions.html

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We are planning to hold some sort of symposium in Spring/Summer 2023, with a set of talks and some field activities, probably in Derbyshire (UK). We are hoping to stream this via Zoom, and to invite talks via Zoom too. So if you have something you would like to talk about, please start thinking about it now.

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If you have been relying on the Speleonics mailing list (belonging to the Communications and Electronics Section of the NSS) to tell you when a new CREG journal is available, please note that the Speleonics list is broken. The original database has been lost and it currently only has a few subscribers (about 40 out of an original 300 or more). The web interface at https://lists.altadena.net/mailman/listinfo remains down but you can subscribe in the old-fashioned way by emailing speleonics-request@lists.altadena.net with the word subscribe in the subject or body. The NSS's Communications and Electronics Section also has a bulletin-board style forum at http://forums.caves.org/viewforum.php?f=73 but that is as little-used as our own forum.

THE BEST WAY TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH CREG IS TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CREG-ANNOUNCE LIST.

Please pass the news around.

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David Gibson

CREG Journal 121 has now been mailed. We are hoping to get back on schedule with journal 122 in June. If you subscribe to the paper
edition and you live outside the UK - and particularly if you live in the EU - please read the notice at https://bcra.org.uk/bookshop/creg_subscriptions.html

A couple of years ago, CREG's operations were tweaked to the extent that we re-instigated our "committee". Previously, we saw no need for a formal committee and we just operated "ad hoc". But now, CREG is now a formal sub-committee of BCRA - see https://bcra.org.uk/info.html#subcommittees. Our minutes can be read on the CREG forum at https://bcra.org.uk/cregf

One of the things we have been discussing is a plan to hold some sort
of symposium in Spring/Summer 2023. We were thinking that there would be a set of talks and some field activities, probably in Derbyshire
(UK). We were also hoping to stream this via Zoom, and to invite talks via Zoom too. Having discussed this, we have decided that we really need a volunteer to step forward and take charge of this event, or it is likely not to happen. So, if you would like to be that person, please step forward!

I have mentioned the Speleonics mailing list a few times recently. The list now seems to be completely unresponsive and there seems to be no method of contacting the NSS's Communications and Electronics Section at all - they are not even mentioned on the NSS website. As a precaution against information about them disappearing completely, I have placed my own archive of the 29 issues of the Speleonics journal on the CREG web site and also archived it in the BCRA cloud where, hopefully, it will not go missing. The journal has not been published for ten years, but contained much interesting and useful material.

And, of course, dont forget that the CREG journal archive now extends to 121 issues, and there is a search engine too.