Hi All,
Great Lakes Marine/Maritime Mobile Net.
Frequencies/Times: 08:00 EST and 21:00 EST: 3.930 Mhz first, and then 7.263 Mhz LSB.
We also
monitor WA9ORC 2M Chicagoland repeater on 146.760 (PL 107.2). One of the antennas is on top of the AON Building.
We also have Skype for worldwide HF
phone patches and Echolink for full coverage 2M comms. In addition we are fully conversant with WINMOR HF
email, and can enter position reports into the Winlink 2000 system.
The
Great Lakes Marine Mobile Net was established to provide mariners on the
Great Lakes with yet another means of casual
communications to land.
During recent
offshore and cross lake sailing races, we found that not even
VHF or boosted 3G could span the
communications distance to land from the middle of these lakes. Some
remote coves are also out of
VHF and
cell phone range.
Our free and voluntary HF
service will close the gap for those mariners with a Ham
Radio license. These services include
weather information, marina information, position reporting,
phone patches,
email forwarding,
medical services and
emergency response.
Remember: In an
EMERGENCY, no
license is required to transmit on the Ham
Radio frequencies.
See our website/blog here:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/glmmnet/