G'Day all,
Reading another thread re HF cruisers nets gave me the thought that there might be CF folks who would enjoy participation in the Comedy Net.
This net has been active for over 20 years. It was started by Ron, ZL1BTQ who was a lighthouse keeper at Cape Brett in NZed. He saw tons of yachts cruising by and realized that many were ham
radio operators. Somehow he got things started up, and we've been going ever since. Ron became a silent key some years ago and we've had a few others who kept things somewhat organized since then, but we've maintained his attitude about net operation: no rules, no set format, a different controller each day of the week, and generally to have an enjoyable place to meet and talk
boats or whatever is on our minds. Sorta like CF! We now have a lot of land-based stations who participate, but they're all interested in maritime affairs, so we enjoy their contributions too. Currently we have participants up and down the
east coast of
Australia,
New Zealand, and several at sea. Later in teh season we'll likely have
boats from
New Caledonia and
Vanuatu as well.
So, if you are a ham and interested, the net starts at 2040 UTC (just after the Aussie met office broadcast of the MSL chart) on 7.087 MHz LSB. We have an initial call for
emergency traffic, then vessels under way with position reports, and then general traffic. It lasts anywhere from 15 minutes or so up to an hour or more.
Hope that some CFers will join in...
73,
Jim N9GFT/VK4GFT MM
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