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Subject: [worldcruising] Boats returning to BC; Pacific Northwest/BC radio net?
From: S/V Aramoana (Roger Chin & Eric Register) (aramoana@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 03:42:50 EDT
I've been tracking friends who are returning to BC from Hawaii. They just
passed over the Pacific High.
Some interesting observations...
1) The Pacific High is slowly precessing in a clockwise direction.
2) Marine SSB... 12 MHz is good at around 10 pm PDT for distances over
1000 miles. 6 MHz is good at around 10pm PDT right now as they start their
way east. I expect it will move earlier as they get closer. 4 MHz is too
noisy for this latitude (as compared to when we were in Mexico).
Also, there is a local ham radio net called the BC Boaters Net (3855 kHz
LSB at 6pm PDT) but I'd like to see a net on a marine SSB frequency. I
tried setting one up for the Bluewater Cruising Association but there
wasn't a lot of interest. It was 6206.0 kHz at 7pm PDT. (A later time
would be better except that the Pacific weatherfaxes broadcast from 7:45 -
9:20pm. Maybe a better time would be 9:30pm, just before a bedtime chat on
where to go cruising next.)
Would there be anybody interested in helping set something up for the
Pacific Northwest/BC? I was thinking of calling it the "Rainbow SSB Net"
after the Pacific Northwest rainbow.
When we were in Mexico, the "Southbound marine SSB Net" was wonderful to
keep track of where friends were. It was also a great source of cruising
information from the participants (weather, marinas, medical, etc.)
BTW, last year 6 MHz carried as far as Cabo San Lucas but was also great
for local BC waters. Better than the 4 MHz band.
Roger
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Roger Chin & Eric Register
S/V Aramoana, docked in Richmond, BC
www.geocities.com/sv_aramoana
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