Thursday, March 28

SSCA Starts Daily Weather Net with Chris Parker for All Atlantic Cruisers

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Here’s some good news if you’re planning to cross the Atlantic this year. The Seven Seas Cruising Association has formed a partnership with Chris Parker, the chief forecaster for the Marine Weather Center, and two other HAM stations to provide a Trans-Atlantic Cruisers’ Net. The service is available to all mariners, not just members of the SSCA.

The service started on April 15 and will continue through the traditional crossing seasons. Parker (pictured above) will provide weather routing for the Atlantic. He will broadcast at 2200 UTC on SSB frequencies 8.137 and 12.350. Half an hour earlier, at 2130, SSCA net controllers Glen Tuttle and Jim West and Dick Giddings from the Cruiserheimers and Doo-Dah nets will host an Atlantic cruisers net on SSB frequency 12.350. They also will stand by to provide relays during Parker’s weather broadcast. Read more:

https://www.ssca.org/#/03radio-service/

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