WHATS BECOME OF THE PACIFIC SEAFARERS NET?
Greetings from us vets of the ’96 Ha-Ha and ’99 Puddle Jump aboard the Hans Christian 41 Laughing Buddha. We’re still wandering about the South Pacific, currently on passage from Vanuatu to Cairns, Australia. We noted that in the last week or so – we’re writing in late September – that the Pacific Seafarer’s Net seems to have gone off the air. We hope this is a temporary thing. For those who don’t know, the Pacific Seafarer’s Net has a history of being very professionally run by a group of network controllers who are all Ham radio operators and who are all using their own equipment and funds. The controllers operate from many locations, including the Pacific Northwest, California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand. They had integrated their behind-the-scenes action with the web, and include YOTREPS details as well. Recently the website had been upgraded to include not only the position reports of boats on passage, but streaming audio of the net session as well. The
