The Cross the Atlantic season for European sailing yachts has just comenced. - The starting points, such as, Canarian Islands, Westafrican ports, Cape Verdes are filled up with smart European sailing yachts, - on many of which the skipper and the mate hold radio amateur license. -- On land there are several landbased radio amateurs, who keep contact with the yachts en-route, - which provides additional safety for the sailing crews. There are two special radio amateur groups active here: Intermar, - which has six voluntary operators, shifting watch, - and SeeLotse, - with only active, - and some voluntaries, - operator, - Christoph
- Whereas Intermar's six operators are spread over Europe, - Christoph's SeeLotse is in Kiel (Germany). - The radio traffic is maintained on the amateurband 20 m = 14 mHz, - more pricisely on 14.313 kHz USB, - with 14.307 kHz as reserve freq.
Both Intermar and SeeLotse have already participated in various salvage operations, - saving human lives and sailing yachts, - and have long ago confirmed their justification to exist, - if not necessity to exist, - because even with all modern radio and salvage equipment on the sailing yachts, the radio amateurs have paid and are still paying their justification as ready, handy, expense-free tool, in the hands of the owners and skippers of the about 10 meters long sailing yachts.
Why don't you make the radio amateur license, and participate in this interesting and useful service...? -- The equipment is not very expensive, - you can start up with a 100Watt short-wave transceiver, - and commence listening to the regular radio "nets" of radio amateurs, who several time every day meet in the air, to interchange weather, port facilities, and other stuff, of intereste to a small sailing yacht on worldwide trading...-- Radiomonitor / OZ3ACF - daily QRV on 14.313 kHz...+
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