Gotta MMSN question for you.

I have a friend who is planning his life long "bucket" trip to Hawaii
and the South Seas - planning on two years. Beautiful boat by the way
- a Voyage 580 catamaran - gorgeous.

Anyway, years ago, there used to be a net run on 14.313 that ran right
before the Interconn net came on - it used to follow the grayline with
handoffs to net controls - I think it was Germany, Interconn,
Japan/Australia then back around again.

I've been listening on .300 and .313 the past couple of days and
haven't heard these guys on the air except for MMSN.

Are these nets still in operation? Might be a good backup for him -
he just got his General license in anticipation of the cruise.

Thanks for any info.

On Sep 24, 12:07*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
Gotta MMSN question for you.

I have a friend who is planning his life long "bucket" trip to Hawaii
and the South Seas - planning on two years. *Beautiful boat by the way
- a Voyage 580 catamaran - gorgeous.

Anyway, years ago, there used to be a net run on 14.313 that ran right
before the Interconn net came on - it used to follow the grayline with
handoffs to net controls - I think it was Germany, Interconn,
Japan/Australia then back around again.

I've been listening on .300 and .313 the past couple of days and
haven't heard these guys on the air except for MMSN.

Are these nets still in operation? *Might be a good backup for him -
he just got his General license in anticipation of the cruise.

Thanks for any info.

the intercon net is still up and active on 14.300 before the MMSN
comes on at noon EST. there was a net called the 'pacific seafarer's
net' that used to come on after the MMSN shut down at 10 PM EST on
14313 or 14325 but i haven't heard them in awhile.

but the intercon and MMSN are still very active....

good luck to your friend and have him check in if he gets a license!

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:11:14 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:

On Sep 24, 12:07*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
Gotta MMSN question for you.

I have a friend who is planning his life long "bucket" trip to Hawaii
and the South Seas - planning on two years. *Beautiful boat by the way
- a Voyage 580 catamaran - gorgeous.

Anyway, years ago, there used to be a net run on 14.313 that ran right
before the Interconn net came on - it used to follow the grayline with
handoffs to net controls - I think it was Germany, Interconn,
Japan/Australia then back around again.

I've been listening on .300 and .313 the past couple of days and
haven't heard these guys on the air except for MMSN.

Are these nets still in operation? *Might be a good backup for him -
he just got his General license in anticipation of the cruise.

Thanks for any info.

the intercon net is still up and active on 14.300 before the MMSN
comes on at noon EST. there was a net called the 'pacific seafarer's
net' that used to come on after the MMSN shut down at 10 PM EST on
14313 or 14325 but i haven't heard them in awhile.

Yeah - that's what I thought - the evening system is out of reach for
me - even with the power, I can't reach out that far with the wires -
I can hear via the Beveredge, but I really need my TH-11 up to blow
holes in the atmosphere. :)

Isn't there a 15 meter net too?

but the intercon and MMSN are still very active....

Seems to be which is good. I havne't listened in a while and stopped
being active with the net right after the KV4FZ debacle. :) I never
signed up for Net Control duties, but occasionally when somebody
didn't show up, I filled in until a real one showed up.

Those guys were great during the Mexican earthquake. XY1L, myself and
some others working the relief effort needed a clear channel - they've
let us have it for an hour or so until we could get coordinated
somewhere else - great bunch of guys.

good luck to your friend and have him check in if he gets a license!

He has it and I'm sure he will. The boat is beling delivered next
week in Boston and he's planning on sailing down through the Carribean
on a shake down cruise over Winter based out of St. Thomas.

Thanks for the info - been a while since I played around on 20 other
than CW DX. :)

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:07:09 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Gotta MMSN question for you.

I have a friend who is planning his life long "bucket" trip to Hawaii
and the South Seas - planning on two years. Beautiful boat by the way
- a Voyage 580 catamaran - gorgeous.

Anyway, years ago, there used to be a net run on 14.313 that ran right
before the Interconn net came on - it used to follow the grayline with
handoffs to net controls - I think it was Germany, Interconn,
Japan/Australia then back around again.

I've been listening on .300 and .313 the past couple of days and
haven't heard these guys on the air except for MMSN.

Are these nets still in operation? Might be a good backup for him -
he just got his General license in anticipation of the cruise.

Thanks for any info.

Here's a bunch of cruiser net listings, can't vouch for the accuracy:

http://www.cruiser.co.za/radionet.asp

http://www.onpassage.com/Communicati...uiser_Nets.htm

http://www.docksideradio.com/west_coast.htm

http://www.docksideradio.com/east_coast.htm

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:25:34 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:07:09 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Gotta MMSN question for you.

I have a friend who is planning his life long "bucket" trip to Hawaii
and the South Seas - planning on two years. Beautiful boat by the way
- a Voyage 580 catamaran - gorgeous.

Anyway, years ago, there used to be a net run on 14.313 that ran right
before the Interconn net came on - it used to follow the grayline with
handoffs to net controls - I think it was Germany, Interconn,
Japan/Australia then back around again.

I've been listening on .300 and .313 the past couple of days and
haven't heard these guys on the air except for MMSN.

Are these nets still in operation? Might be a good backup for him -
he just got his General license in anticipation of the cruise.

Thanks for any info.

Here's a bunch of cruiser net listings, can't vouch for the accuracy:

http://www.cruiser.co.za/radionet.asp

http://www.onpassage.com/Communicati...uiser_Nets.htm

http://www.docksideradio.com/west_coast.htm

http://www.docksideradio.com/east_coast.htm

Thanks.