The South East Asia Amateur Radio Network (SEANET) was established to 1964 on
20m (14.320 MHz plus or minus QRM). The objective of this Net is to promote
fellowship among hams and to relay emergency, medical, urgent or priority
traffic.This on-the-air meeting which has taken place without fail daily at 1200
UTC has strengthened unity and co-operation among Hams around the world,
especially those within the region. The net also provides Hams a facility for
testing their equipment arid propagation condition on the 20m band.
The first convention or eyeball QSO of SEAnet took place on the island of
Penang, Malaysia, in December 1971 when about 30 amateurs met. Present at that
historic meeting were the first Net Controller Paddy Gunasekera 4S7PB of Sri
Lanka and stalwarts ‘Big John’ van Leader 9M2IR, 9V1OQ, HS1AIR, Ebbey Lucas
9V1QG of Singapore arid Eshee Razak 9M2FK of Malaysia.
The subsequent Conventions were
held in the following countries: |
2nd |
1972 |
Bangkok |
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3rd |
1973 |
Singapore |
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4th |
1974 |
Manila |
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5th |
1975 |
Kuala Lumpur |
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6th |
1976 |
Jakarta |
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7th |
1977 |
Bangkok |
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8th |
1978 |
Singapore |
9th |
1979 |
Penang |
10th |
1980 |
Manila |
11th |
1981 |
Jog Jakarta |
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12th |
1982 |
Bangkok |
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13th |
1983 |
Singapore |
14th |
1984 |
Penang |
15th |
1985 |
Cebu |
16th |
1988 |
Bangkok |
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17th |
1989 |
Singapore |
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18th |
1990 |
Kuching, Malaysia |
19th |
1991 |
Chiang Mai, Thailand |
20th |
1992 |
Darwin, Australia |
21st |
1993 |
Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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22nd |
1994 |
Malacca, Malaysia |
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23rd |
1995 |
Koh Samui, Thailand |
24th |
1996 |
Madras, India |
25th |
1997 |
Darwin, Australia |
26th |
1998 |
Singapore |
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27th |
1999 |
Bandar Sari Begawan, Brunei Darussalam |
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28th |
2000 |
Pattaya, Thailand |
29th |
2001 |
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia |
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30th |
2002 |
Perth, Australia |
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SEANET has no permanent Secretariat as such the devoted net controllers work
out a schedule among themselves to run the net. It is through the net
controllers that the net has been useful in many such as passing the DX news.
Dx-peditions, handling emergency and medical traffic amid assigning frequencies
for stations wishing to work each other, although SEANET is not a DX net.
Members of this 37 years old network can take credit or many actual life saving
communications activities, such as, answering distress calls from yachts and
handling traffic for medical emergencies and special medicines.
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