ARLA/CLUSTER: SEANET vai ser reactivada a partir de hoje em 14, 320 MHz

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Southeast Asia Net (SEANET) to be reactivated

The Southeast Asia Net (SEANET) will be reactivated next week by the
members of RAST, Thailand's national amateur radio society.

Beginning on Monday, April 11 a Thai net control station will invite
stations to check into SEANET from across the Southeast Asian region
on 14.320 MHz from 12.00z (7 p.m. in Bangkok and Jakarta) onwards.

Subsequently, the net will be conducted twice a week, every Monday and
Friday, when a Thai net control station will invite stations around
the region to check in on a country-by-country basis.

Later this year the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand under the
patronage of His Majesty the King (RAST) will host the 2016 SEANET
Convention in Pattaya, a popular beach resort on the Gulf of Thailand,
from November 18-21 and RAST President Jakkree Hantongkom (Jack),
HS1FVL along with directors of the society believe that it is
important to ensure that the net on 20 metres continues to be
conducted regularly.

Amateur radio stations anywhere in the world are welcome to check into
SEANET, whose main role is to be on standby to handle any medical or
emergency traffic. In the past SEANET has helped sailors and crew
members on yachts in distress while also serving as a guide to
propagation conditions and being a meeting point for hams in the
region where they can meet friends before QSYing away from the net
frequency for a QSO.

SEANET began operating on 14.320 MHz in late 1963 and the first SEANET
Convention was held in Penang in 1971. Since then the convention has
been an annual event while the net had been manned by volunteer net
control stations from around the region. However, the net activity had
declined and it no longer meets regularly and this initiative by RAST
hopes to redress this by conducting the net at least twice a week.

It is still possible to register to attend the 44th SEANET Convention
in Pattaya and full information can be found at the SEANET 2016
website: www.seanet2016.com.

Any amateur radio station can check into the net and the net control
operator begins by calling for check-ins from countries in Southeast
Asia, followed by elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific, then in Africa,
the Middle East, Europe and North, Central and South America.

 For more information about RAST and amateur radio in Thailand, please
check out the English-language website while there is also a website
in Thai.

Sincerely and 73

Tony Waltham, HS0ZDX

Vice President, RAST